Example sentences of "achieved a [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 The communiqué that was issued after the meeting noted that the talks had been ‘ frank and useful ’ and did not disguise the fact that there were still ‘ major differences ’ on a series of key issues ; but the two leaders had achieved a better understanding of their respective positions and had agreed on the importance of maintaining a ‘ constant dialogue ’ .
2 We have achieved a better than expected pro-forma combined profit and Stoddard Sekers is now putting in place the strategic plans to enable it to grow strongly both organically and by acquisition ’ .
3 The epinephrine plus pure alcohol group achieved a better haemostatic effect for spurting haemorrhage ( 9/10 v 5/11 , p<0.05 ) .
4 Health departments had achieved a clearer separation of purchases and provider functions , and much more effective methods of needs assessment at the district-wide level .
5 Nicholson failed to make a name for himself once again , though because of some inspired controversy he had at least achieved a wider circle of critics .
6 The National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association is by no means the only ‘ moral entrepreneurial ’ group of this sort , although it is one of the most long-standing , and it has , through Mary Whitehouse , generally achieved a higher profile than many of the others .
7 AFTER three years ' study , analyst programmer Ray Marsh from the Barlaston computer department has achieved a Higher National Diploma qualification in computer studies .
8 Recently , nine members of Windscale Judo Club achieved a higher level in the sport after successfully completing an upgrading contest .
9 If the quality of public services has achieved a higher political profile in general , it has reached a positively frantic pitch in health care .
10 On food control , the level of food hygiene inspections at seven hundred and thirty we 've achieved by buying in consultants to do some work for us in our priority area , and we 're were able to do that with Derek Welk 's retirement , leaving us with some unspent staff , and so we 've achieved a higher figure there than we expected we would do .
11 It seems highly probable that the northern kingdom achieved a greater cohesion and a more rigorously defined hierarchy of power in the decade or so after Winwaed .
12 With steady growth and increased profits in both the servicing and manufacture of fire protection and safety products , Wood Group Fire Protection achieved a greater balance between supplies to offshore and industrial based clients .
13 Because up to this point they have n't achieved a lighter weight and they have conditioned themselves to believing they ca n't .
14 Where teachers have sought to accommodate the subject requirements of the National Curriculum , have they achieved a truer balance than that shown by our figures , or has the result been an imbalance even more marked than that which obtained previously ?
15 In fact , in the first half of the 1980s , British Steel achieved a larger reduction in its capacity than the steel industry in any other major EC country .
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