Example sentences of "achieved [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last I 've achieved my lifetime 's ambition . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Now I 've achieved my main priority of getting back my passport after a six-year fight . |
| 3 | She stated : " Although I have not achieved my goal of becoming chief constable , … |
| 4 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |
| 5 | She had achieved her end , and self-assertiveness was not comfortable for her . |
| 6 | The Milton Keynes competitor achieved her best performance , 2–12–14 , in Dublin two years ago . |
| 7 | She was delighted at having achieved her aim and made her mother notice her . |
| 8 | She had not achieved her present status purely through luck and application . |
| 9 | She had achieved her purpose in being able to watch Angel grow , but often she was homesick for Clerkenwell and the friends she 'd known since childhood . |
| 10 | She 's a tough , single-minded lady who has n't achieved her present position without treading on more than a few toes . |
| 11 | The anorexic who has achieved her emaciated state is faced with two choices : she can relax her control and surrender her will , thus admitting defeat ; or she can allow herself to die of starvation , thus gaining her paradoxical victory . |
| 12 | He knew Katherine Lundy 's reputation in Dublin , knew what she was , knew how she had achieved her reputation there and how she had carved herself a slice of the London underworld . |
| 13 | She had achieved her purpose , at least in part . |
| 14 | Sycorax saw that in this regard she had achieved her curse : for Kit too , Roukoubé was a mongrel whelp , the reminder of his weakness and Ariel 's strangeness . |
| 15 | As soon as she had achieved her purpose , she would see that the boat was returned . |
| 16 | Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job . |
| 17 | When BA and BCal merged in 1987 , she was determined to become a Concorde pilot and despite stiff opposition finally achieved her goal yesterday . |
| 18 | We are proud to say that Jean Conway has achieved her Food Hygiene Diploma from the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland , and Jean has taken over most of the food hygienecourses running in Scotland . |
| 19 | Formed in 1984 , ‘ Working Title ’ achieved their breakthrough with ‘ MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE ’ , one of the most important films in the British cinema renaissance of the mid-Eighties . |
| 20 | But if Chapman 's death is to provoke any analysis it might be to ask whether the Pythons achieved their original aim of breaking the mould of English television comedy , doing away with the studio applause , the guest star , the musical interlude , even on occasion the punchline . |
| 21 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 22 | ‘ Still , men have achieved their superior position because they literally have it , in sex , and because mainly they have got greater physical strength . ’ |
| 23 | Most of the leaders of the 1974 strike felt that they had achieved their goal when Faulkner 's power-sharing executive was forced to resign . |
| 24 | Bonds of this type were not entirely unprecedented ; in 1466 , for example , during the minority of James III , the Boyds had used them to create support for their seizure of the young king , and then dropped their allies once they had achieved their end . |
| 25 | BRITISH competitors achieved their best results for many years in the French Olympic Classes regatta which concluded on Saturday at Hyeres . |
| 26 | It was in the Jurassic that the ammonoids achieved their greatest flowering , when the clays and shales of the period may be solid with the remains of their shells . |
| 27 | However , they are so often held back with comments such as ‘ you are too young ’ , ‘ we can not trust you ’ , ‘ your time will come ’ — time and time again I have heard the same complaint by those who have achieved their goals at an early age . |
| 28 | Their Lordships , the Bishops , have achieved their ends , setting up a regency to represent the whole Community of the Realm consisting of the Earls of Buchan and Fife , Sir James Stewart and John Comyn and , of course , the two Bishops themselves . |
| 29 | Those in favour of keeping the school open seem to have finally achieved their goal by manoeuvring their colleagues into an embarrassing position . |
| 30 | They , and those who have not cohabited , may cross the threshold into marriage without much of a backward glance , feeling sure they have ‘ arrived ’ , thankful for having arrived , found their mate , achieved their haven , caught up with their friends , pleased or escaped from their parents . |