verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
achieve/attain/reach your goal
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She has worked hard to achieve her goal of a job in the medical profession.
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They’re hoping to reach their goal of raising £10,000 for charity.
reach/attain manhood
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He had barely reached manhood when he married.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
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The mocked senility was never attained: Bouilhet diet at forty-eight, Flaubert at fifty-eight.
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As long as the elements never attain their natural places in an absolute sense, things will continue much as they are.
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That was one thing Jezrael had that she had never attained .
only
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But I could only attain to be thrilled and enchanted, as by the sound of a strain of music dying away.
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You only attain new levels of relative poverty.
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They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
■ NOUN
age
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Pool pairs of cells that have divided within a chosen time interval and culture until they attain the appropriate age .
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Regarding structure, most studies conclude that children attain concrete operations around age 6 or 7 independent of formal schooling.
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This was done upon the eldest son attaining the age of 21 years.
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The successful application of reversibility to liquid volume problems is not attained until about age 7.
child
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As soon as a child is born entitlement begins and is never questioned until the child itself attains economic independence.
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During concrete operational development, a child attains the use of fully logical operations for the first time.
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Shaping Sometimes the behaviours to be learned are too complicated for the child to attain at once.
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Most important, the concrete operational child attains reversibility of mental operations.
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In most cultures, children without formal schooling attain conservation as readily as children with schooling.
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A child must attain reversibility, learn to decenter perceptions, and be able to follow transformations.
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Regarding structure, most studies conclude that children attain concrete operations around age 6 or 7 independent of formal schooling.
degree
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I can not pretend that Mr James's book attains the same degree of enlightenment.
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But, second, in the vast majority of markets, efficient production can be attained with a high degree of competition.
end
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At least, I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end .
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In my experience, people who tried to attain their ends by covert means came to unfortunate ends.
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He must have been very bitter and ready to invoke any means to attain his ends .
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Often, in fact, Gandhi was more interested in improving the human means than in attaining political ends .
goal
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Programme evaluation, through effectiveness auditing, is measuring the extent to which goals have been attained .
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Yet Bochy also recently pointed out to Gwynn that the player could attain some luminous goals , including 3, 000 hits.
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The methods we have outlined will ensure that your will-power is strong enough for you to attain your goals .
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Things that are useful in attaining goals come to have value to the child.
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After twenty weeks this dieter will have attained all the salt goals .
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Here is your opportunity to attain a goal .
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Do you feel ambitious enough to attain goals that previously you might have thought were out of your personal reach?
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Yet when a moment comes when I do not look, behold, they have attained their goal !
level
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These results confirm that transcripts of genes not implicated in deletion attained identical steady-state levels in the two strains.
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I would tell them that they could attain levels of quality and customer satisfaction greater than they had ever imagined.
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Tests are being devised for children with special needs expected to attain lower levels three to one.
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Managers and employees will be asked to attain levels of performance previously considered impossible.
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With a cash transfer the recipient of government assistance would attain a welfare level as shown by.
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The drug selected for monotherapy is then added and appropriate dosage adjustment made to attain therapeutic serum levels .
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Our aim is to encourage as many as possible to attain various levels within the award scheme.
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You only attain new levels of relative poverty.
means
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The continuation of farming is not so much the objective of the Directive but the means to attain its objectives.
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He must have been very bitter and ready to invoke any means to attain his ends.
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In co-evolution terms it means that herbivorous dinosaurs may have grown large as a means of attaining thermal stability.
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Often, in fact, Gandhi was more interested in improving the human means than in attaining political ends.
objective
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The continuation of farming is not so much the objective of the Directive but the means to attain its objectives.
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Efficiency relates to the cost in resources of attaining objectives .
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The more uncertain and defensive you are, the more difficult it will be to attain your objectives .
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We also object to flagrant waste, particularly of resources devoted to attaining our primary objectives .
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When their motivations are strong and their targets clear, they are capable of going to incredible lengths to attain their objectives .
position
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Since different societies have different value systems, the ways of attaining a high position will vary from society to society.
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The primates attained their dominant positions through a combination of military skill, physical prowess, and personal magnetism.
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To attain hydrostatic equilibrium the position of the lithosphere adjusts vertically in accordance with its density and thickness.
rank
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During the war lie served in the Royal Corps of Signals and attained the rank of Captain.
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Three of the sons followed military or naval careers, two attaining the rank of admiral.
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He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers.
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He pursued a military career and attained the rank of Brigadier.
size
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Internally, the mushroom bodies attain great size and complexity in Hymenoptera with elaborate behaviour.
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An apparently missing tail, for example, will often attain its original size within a couple of weeks.
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Or have earthworms already attained the maximum size possible within the physical limits imposed by a hydraulic skeleton?
standard
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June, too, had wanted to be noticed for herself and not just for fading to attain impossibly high standards .
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It articulates the Group's commitment to attaining the highest practical standards of health, safety and environmental protection in the workplace.
status
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Once a person has attained archetypal status in the eyes of the world, it is very hard to break it.
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Forbes has attained his second-place status without assembling the usual army of city and town coordinators, and without political endorsements.
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At puberty, males become warriors and killing an enemy is often a prerequisite of attaining full adult status .
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Few companies have yet attained this status , but many are well along the way.
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Their failure to attain status comparable to that of older market-sector professions corrodes' middle class, conservatism.
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The definition given by M.. Mauss has attained classical status , and more recent theories relate to it in some way.
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Most attain that status only because Britain's plants and animals have been so much studied.
target
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To make matters worse many dietary instructional leaflets required a reading age not attained by the target population.
■ VERB
help
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And he will be expected to use that information to improve performance and to help his company attain its strategic goals.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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India attained independence in 1947.
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Jean Arthur worked for a decade before attaining stardom.
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The balloonists attained an altitude of 33,000 feet.
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The latest model is capable of attaining speeds in excess of 300 kph.
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When migrating, birds may attain a height of three thousand metres or more.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Howard attracted many gifted people who have subsequently attained leadership roles in the Salvation Army.
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I would tell them that they could attain levels of quality and customer satisfaction greater than they had ever imagined.
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Often, in fact, Gandhi was more interested in improving the human means than in attaining political ends.
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She mounted the bike and wobbled precariously for several yards before attaining a kind of equilibrium along Small's Wynd and disappearing.
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Supervisors encourage you to set goals that stretch you but are achievable, and then reward you for attaining them.
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Together with this person, you can attain results far more spectacular than either of you could achieve alone.
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When Maine attained statehood in 1820, much of the interior was unsettled.