Example sentences of "[be] achieved at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Maginnis criticised the Government for being ‘ deliberately naive or mischievous in its claim that devolved management of schools can be achieved at no cost . ’
2 It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ .
3 Indexing can thus be achieved at a detailed level , often including many terms per document , with almost no indexing effort .
4 Furthermore , Hoyle suggests that there is indeed a tension between the two approaches — that restricted professionality is unlikely in practice to be capable of extension or , put another way , that extended professionality can only be achieved at the cost of effective , restricted professionality at the classroom level .
5 For example , helping one client obtain a council tenancy may be achieved at the expense of others on the list .
6 Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation .
7 Similarly , a lower inflation rate could be achieved at the cost of an increase in the unemployment percentage .
8 A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect .
9 People have to make choices ; some goals will be achieved at the price of others .
10 A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable .
11 Both participants are aware of the starting point , and that a final goal has to be achieved at the other side of the map , stopping at various intermediate points on the way ( see Figure 4.1 ) .
12 Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year .
13 However , convictions for rape are hard to obtain and defendants very often plead not guilty when charged , so that the symbolic advantages of such a change might be achieved at the expense of even fewer convictions for the conduct concerned .
14 To complement the quotation from Winston Churchill 's reply to the debate on the then Coal Mines ( Eight Hours ) Bill that was given by the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , I should like to draw the House 's attention to other words of Winston Churchill in the same speech , which are as self-evidently true today as they were then : ’ We have reminded the hon. Gentleman of it often ; but why should cheapness of production always be achieved at the expense of the human factor ?
15 Beveridge became more sanguine about the level of full employment which could be achieved at the same time as he proposed less control by the government over the economy .
16 A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests , and this was politically unacceptable .
17 Finally , the benefits to be achieved from clarity of roles and greater accountability which accompany the separation of purchasing from provision may be achieved at the cost of much higher transaction costs between what are now separate organisations .
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