Example sentences of "[modal v] achieve [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being married to even a would-be politician involves many sacrifices which may achieve no more than being landed with a morose husband ( or wife ) hanging round the house for the next four or five years . |
| 2 | The exception might be the synthesis of information which may achieve the same aim as analysis . |
| 3 | However , he could achieve the same result by giving less attention to each patient . |
| 4 | He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity . |
| 5 | But he acknowledged that , for example , education could achieve the same objectives . |
| 6 | There are though two other measures which would achieve the same limited objective and which appear more liberal in comparison with nationalizing ( imprisoning ) offending corporations . |
| 7 | Superglue on your joystick would achieve the same . |
| 8 | New government leaders continued to speak in favour of Mongol-Soviet ties , but after the March plenum Foreign Minister Gombosuren expressed the hope that Mongolian-Chinese relations would achieve the same level as Mongolian-Soviet relations . |
| 9 | Critics of the idea argue that companies can achieve the same purpose by paying out good dividends , but Laing questions whether much of this money finds its way back into the community . |
| 10 | ‘ Our commitment to adopt the Social Charter should remain a priority objective so that employees in our country can achieve the same rights and opportunities as their Community counterparts . ’ |
| 11 | Aerial surveys can achieve the same thing , although the maps so obtained cover a smaller area . |
| 12 | Assume , purely for ease of calculation and exposition here , that the rival can achieve the same learning rate , that demand is not price-sensitive and that , if the rival enters the market , sales will be divided equally between the two rival companies . |
| 13 | Of course if you have a mouse installed you can achieve the same result by simply pointing and clicking on the menu option . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The five Scottish ‘ Techs ’ have shown over and over again that they can achieve the same high academic standards as our eight universities . |
| 15 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 16 | Also , this method can achieve the same accuracy by using a best-few search which explores more alternatives during portions of the utterances where credibility is low . ’ |