Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [be] achieved " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 This flexibility should not be achieved by moving staff around at will , for the lack of stability is a contributory factor to wastage .
3 The plan was originally for 17,000 MW of coal plant but this was reduced to 11,300 MW and the level of construction at the time of writing suggested that this objective may not be achieved .
4 His re-entry , however , either to mainstream or to the start of adult working life , may not be achieved so smoothly .
5 What may not be achieved by argument can be brought about by provocation .
6 If the presumption of wives ' financial dependence on their husbands is not outdated in the 1980s , equitable treatment of the sexes in tax , pensions , social security and the financial arrangements on divorce may not be achieved by equal treatment .
7 As we have seen in Lecture 7 , equilibrium in the factor or output markets may not be achieved , and we have to examine in the context of a fully specified disequilibrium model whether the economy converges to an equilibrium path , which in turn may or may not be tending to a steady state .
8 Real fears are emerging that Philips may have seriously eroded confidence among potential CD-I publishers to the extent that the right critical mass of discs to drive the technology from its initial launch may not be achieved .
9 The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved .
10 That feat could not be achieved without making Maurice more down-to-earth than he was .
11 During the course of the 1929–31 government , MacDonald gradually appreciated that the hopes which he had entertained during the 1920s of eliminating the Liberals and winning over the whole of the progressive vote for the Labour party could not be achieved .
12 Each bedroom would be reached via a staircase sited in the central bay , but headroom for a lower-storey living-room could not be achieved below this stair and still give an adequate height for a door opening beneath the truss tie-beams , allowing unobstructed access from the main landing into the bedrooms .
13 The turnout was 94% , and 89% of the voters said Yes to a ‘ sovereign and independent ’ Slovenia , either within a Yugoslav confederation or , if that could not be achieved in six months , on its own .
14 And the more he succumbed to the allure of his own Führer cult and came to believe in his own myth , the more his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility , losing his grip on what could and could not be achieved solely through the strength of his ‘ will ’ .
15 Some of those who attacked ministers ' devotion to the ‘ social gospel ’ were attacking a penchant for education bills , county council elections and slum clearance , but they would not have been as upset by a renewed campaign for disestablishment , which , no less than educational reform , could not be achieved without political action .
16 National independence could not be achieved under capitalism , and under socialism it would be unnecessary .
17 In November 1915 , a Bukharin-Piatakov platform argued that national liberation could not be achieved within capitalism in its current form of imperialism ; to demand it was therefore to sow illusions and divert efforts away from the central task of worker revolution .
18 After the dismemberment of Palestine and the failure of the Palestine Conciliation Commission at the Lausanne Conference in 1949 , most governments concluded , however , that a negotiated peace agreement could not be achieved .
19 While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan .
20 Strong and creative relationships between schools and within an LEA result in a richness of educational provision which could not be achieved by each school going its own way .
21 He stressed that democratic reform could not be achieved overnight but would take time .
22 On the one hand , a half-promise to save a new-born country , and to show that one lot of people may not dispossess another lot merely by virtue of being better armed ; on the other hand , a growing realisation that this could not be achieved without a fight in which an unknown number of young Europeans and Americans would be asked to die in the name of misty-sounding things like compassion and principle .
23 It was in the very nature of the constantly growing working class that full socialist consciousness , full understanding of the revolutionary destiny of the proletariat , could not be achieved simultaneously by all sections .
24 But this function could not be achieved by the state directly since it was too remote .
25 If the effect of the rule was that an emergency ring holding position could not be achieved by making a residence order , because of a requirement for 21 days notice , then section 9(5) would have no application and the judge was free to achieve the objective by means of a specific issue order and/or a prohibited steps order .
26 According to all the archival evidence available until very recently , there had apparently been no answer to 5 Corps ' almost desperate insistence on 23 May that the hand-over of the Cossacks could not be achieved without use of force .
27 Whilst desktop publishing at the low-end of the market may appear to be a careful juggling match between cost and quality of output , as indeed it is , the real determining factor about the suitability of the products is whether they actually provide some benefit that could not be achieved by other means .
28 Hence this type of learning could not be achieved by mere transient modulation of transmitter release ; new proteins were being made , and it was necessary to discover which they were and what their cellular functions were .
29 Her a very pale grey pastel was dragged over orange , giving a lovely luminous effect which could not be achieved if the two colours were blended together with the finger .
30 The RMI 's press officer , Sue Robinson , said the organisation was trying to improve standards but this could not be achieved overnight .
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