Example sentences of "[verb] be achieve at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 2 | Mind you , some of this performance has been achieved at the expense of portability , such is the need for ruggedness in bass rigs . |
| 3 | So the new ‘ freedom and democracy ’ of the Eastern bloc has been achieved at the cost of poverty on an unimaginable scale south of the equator . |
| 4 | Once this combination has been achieved at the top , the pulling action from the left Latissimus Dorsi , Trapezius and Deltoid starting down will automatically start the transfer of your weight from right to left making it a natural movement for the legs to drive forward . |
| 5 | Acoustically , the Takamine has a fairly flat response , with no boomy bass or tinny treble tendencies at all , though the evenness of its tone may have been achieved at the expense of some character . |
| 6 | The overall increase of 2.1 per cent — compared with 2 per cent in grants from the Arts Council in England and Wales — was said to have been achieved at the expense of the SAC 's running costs , which will be limited to an increase of 1.5 per cent . |
| 7 | Later in that decade the British media announced , with some pride , that the eminent scientist Sir John Cockroft was ‘ 90 per-cent certain ’ that controlled thermonuclear fusion had been achieved at the Harwell Laboratory . |
| 8 | All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment . |
| 9 | Standard and Poor 's cautioned , however , that macro-economic success had been achieved at the expense of widening the gap between rich and poor and through reduced spending on health , education and infrastructure . |
| 10 | Alatas and Durao Barroso both acknowledged that no significant progress had been achieved at the meeting . |
| 11 | All this had been achieved at the expense of the Liberal Party which had monopolized all three areas before 1910 . |
| 12 | Officials reported that ‘ good progress ’ had been achieved at the meeting and the package would go before the full Cabinet tomorrow . |
| 13 | These positive aspects of the Michigan law may , however , have been achieved at the expense of simplicity . |