Example sentences of "[noun sg] achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delegation achieves this at minimal cost . |
| 2 | Selznick concluded that delegation achieves a necessary purpose , as specialisation increases , but that it carries problems with it , ie. it is both functional and dysfunctional at the same time . |
| 3 | Because a particular action achieves a given result , the action is seen as made necessary in order to achieve that result , and a loose typology of the ‘ needs ’ of capital is constructed to demonstrate the functionality of any particular outcome . |
| 4 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |
| 5 | For it received the neglect that a great deal of insider research achieves and was channelled ( unopened ) to me , accompanied by a two-line memo from a senior officer which suggested , ‘ I understand you are doing some research ; you may find this useful ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed , one planning department achieves its objective of supplying business information to the rest of the company almost entirely by searching online . |
| 7 | 12.58 am , Lewisham West : John Maples , a junior Treasury minister , could be election night 's first ministerial victim if Labour achieves the swing the polls are predicting in London . |
| 8 | The effect achieves what we players call reverse swing . |
| 9 | Training in isolation achieves very little . |
| 10 | A further advantage is that whereas with a series of debentures with a charge on the company 's assets it will be necessary to say expressly in each debenture that it is one of a series each ranking pari passu in respect of the charge ; debenture stock achieves that result without express provision . |
| 11 | The Department Achieved its Objective ? |
| 12 | The Senior Management Team quickly returned to their former stance , however , pointing out the possibility of the Head of Department achieving status within the Art teaching fraternity in the LEA : |
| 13 | A further 60 seats would be filled by a second vote in which electors would express their preference for political parties rather than individual candidates , with the seats being distributed in accordance with the proportion of the vote achieved by each party . |
| 14 | The reason I ask is this ; Last season my club achieved promotion in the Courage League and naturally all the players were very pleased and excited by the prospect of competing at a higher level of rugby . |
| 15 | Recently , nine members of Windscale Judo Club achieved a higher level in the sport after successfully completing an upgrading contest . |
| 16 | It was the end result of a carefully orchestrated campaign , the latest ambition achieved in a remarkable life . |
| 17 | In 1949 the College achieved full status as an integral school of the university . |
| 18 | The Sussex county player from Ham Manor achieved his first major victory by dint of a brilliant afternoon round of 66 for a total of 137 , one better than Stephen Pullan ( Sand Moor ) , who carded a brace of 69s . |
| 19 | But Principles retains the first-class coverage of metabolism achieved in the earlier editions and I unreservedly recommend the new section on ‘ Molecular transmission of genetic information ’ . |
| 20 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |
| 21 | This bases the fore for time t+J on the average of several past values of the actual sales figure achieved . |
| 22 | In the whole of 1991 , 139,810 diesel models were registered , representing an 8.78pc penetration more than double the figure achieved five years ago . |
| 23 | In terms of effect achieved the form of energy applied is immaterial but in theory the four are totally interchangeable ; a concept evident from the example of cleaning a dirt layer from an oven interior . |
| 24 | Beautiful blonde effect achieved by David Roles and his artistic team at Neo Hair Design , Manchester |
| 25 | From the critic 's viewpoint , it is " How is such-and-such an aesthetic effect achieved through language ? " |
| 26 | This is exactly the effect achieved , for example , by the treatment of the necks in the Horta figures . |
| 27 | Sperber and Wilson suggest that the effect achieved by such an utterance can be termed a poetic effect . |
| 28 | The Japanese motor industry achieved spectacular export growth during the 1960s and 1970s , but has started to locate production facilities abroad in recent years . |
| 29 | THE unit trust industry achieved its best sales for more than five years in February . |
| 30 | Predominantly affecting young women , the central feature of this disorder is an abnormally low weight achieved by extreme caloric restriction . |