Example sentences of "[modal v] be achieved was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their view on how this should be achieved was quite different : correction was to be an applied science whose goal , where feasible , was to be the rehabilitation of individual offenders ( where it was not feasible , segregation or elimination , for the protection of society , was to suffice ) . |
| 2 | However hard he strove , his destiny was fixed at birth by his parents ' position , and such limited social mobility as might be achieved was rationalized ( and thus concealed ) in the language of kinship . |
| 3 | Until recently , the only means by which this could be achieved was by manual entry , involving many hours of repetitious labour . |
| 4 | His attempts failed , and he came to the conclusion that the best that could be achieved was to specify , so far as one could , which observation statements were implied by which non-observation statements ( see the preface to Carnap , 1967 , and Quine , 1969 , p. 77 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I first investigated the possibility of studying for an occupational health certificate in 1975 , but at that time the only way that this could be achieved was by full-time studying and I could n't do that because of family commitments . |
| 6 | The socialists maintained , with some justification , that the only way in which real grandeur could be achieved was through long-term economic modernization . |