Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 2 | VETERAN bluesman John Lee Hooker has just achieved the honour of becoming the oldest person to have a UK Top 20 hit . |
| 3 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 4 | He has already achieved electoral reform , and now wants the process to continue along British lines . |
| 5 | It was launched with private sector backing , received its first government funding in April , and has already achieved results . |
| 6 | But Sir Bob wants it to build on what BR has already achieved rather than restructure the rail service . |
| 7 | Fowler Welch was only founded in 1987 and has already achieved a turnover of more than £5m . |
| 8 | Graham Taylor 's sidekick said : ‘ He has already achieved the first step by playing in the friendly against Spurs and it will be a very big step to get into a competitive game where there will be no quarter given or asked . |
| 9 | In an agony of choice between human and ideal love Kallikrates tries to kill himself : he refuses to enter the fire in which Ayesha has already achieved immortality and the force of her spiritual power kills him . |
| 10 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |
| 11 | I understand that it has already achieved positive results and it shows just what British industry can do . |
| 12 | The Passport Agency deserves our congratulations on the improvements that it has already achieved . |
| 13 | The banning of tobacco advertising would be a great contribution to achieving what the United States has already achieved . |
| 14 | At 19 , therefore , Lynsey has already achieved more than most sportsmen and sportswomen dream of . |
| 15 | Inwardly he calls upon his pride to remind himself who he is and what he has already achieved . |
| 16 | But you know erm , the training committee 's view that National College has already achieved savings and approved efficiency while mainin maintaining standards , and the huge number , over seven thousand G M B members participating in some form of activity at a National College last year . |
| 17 | An offer must be made if the holding of an offeror and its concert parties reaches 30 per cent or more of the target company 's voting rights or , if the holding has already achieved this level , it increases by more than 1 per cent in any period of 12 months . |
| 18 | Charles has already achieved notoriety in the world of science for extracting the genes from a piece of frozen mammoth and for embarking on a trip to Mongolia in search of the long-eared hedgehog . |
| 19 | In this area , perhaps the most significant development in which the Resins Group has already achieved considerable advances , is the increasing trend to eliminate solvents through the substitution of water-borne products . |
| 20 | A. in Reverie was undoubtedly the painting of the season , and the portrait he had recently finished of Mrs C — , the celebrated actress , was acclaimed — and not only by the sitter — as the best likeness of her striking looks ever achieved . |
| 21 | George himself has deservedly achieved the status of a guru , and a year or so back was made a part time professor of medical economics at the City University . |
| 22 | Now that has clearly been the right choice given that I think Motif has clearly achieved the ascendant over open look . |
| 23 | The company has also achieved a grade A accreditation from the plant evaluation committee of the National Association of Catering Butchers . |
| 24 | It has often achieved less than that — by keeping corrupt governments and their economy-wrecking policies in place . |
| 25 | The holder of an impressive string of awards , he has now achieved world-wide recognition by winning the portfolio section of the International Olympic committee 's Best of Sport Photographic contest , with eight pictures judged the world 's finest . |
| 26 | Howard Shelley has now achieved equally marvellous results with Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 with the LMP . |
| 27 | With the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and European Commission Esprit project now backing it , the Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format applications portability mechanism has now achieved the critical mass needed to drive it to market , believes Open Software Foundation chief technologist Ira Goldstein . |
| 28 | Bourne says that the rewrite has now achieved linear performance increases across multiple processors running a database . |
| 29 | The Rosat X-ray All-Sky Survey has now achieved roughly the same sensitivity over the entire sky ( ) as the typical Einstein Imaging Proportional Counter fields , which covered less than 10% of the sky . |
| 30 | With the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and European Commission Esprit project now backing it , the Architecture Neutral Distribution Format ( ANDF ) application portability mechanism has now achieved the critical mass needed to drive it to market , believes Open Software Foundation chief technologist , Ira Goldstein . |