Example sentences of "have managed [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh Keevins finds out how Danny McGrain has managed to reach the Scottish Cup quarter-finals |
| 2 | Since then , unlike the Shah , he has managed to remain the spiritual leader of his people . |
| 3 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 4 | As we try to decide what to eat , we notice that Denice has managed to do a certain amount of major structural damage to her menu , resulting to the pages ' coming out of the middle . |
| 5 | Composer Philip Glass has managed to create a new kind of music . |
| 6 | A group at the University of Hokkaido is trying to isolate this chemical , which it calls glycinoeclopin A. So far the group has managed to obtain a tiny portion — 0.5 milligrams — of the substance and now it is trying to discover the chemical structure of the material . |
| 7 | Polly Harvey may record for a small label called Too Pure , but she has managed to become the rising star of the indie world by tackling issues of sexuality head on . |
| 8 | In the light of these academic triumphs , it is surprising that the M. C. R. has managed to maintain a social life at all . |
| 9 | In fact , Roddick has managed to achieve an astonishing uniformity with her worldwide network of shops . |
| 10 | But Father John McCullagh has managed to convey the same sentiment in a very different way . |
| 11 | Mr Shekhar has managed to avoid a diplomatic row with America by quietly persuading President Bush to withdraw his request for permission . |
| 12 | None the less , while it has managed to avoid the dramatic slashing of budgets , the government is operating in an economic straitjacket and development on all fronts is dogged by a stagnant economy with inadequate investment levels , lack of foreign exchange and high defence expenditure . |
| 13 | Trainer Kim Bailey has managed to keep the strapping chaser away from the coughing that is affecting some of his stable companions . |
| 14 | Your Editor , however , has managed to produce a rough translation after several hours with a magnifying glass and a copy of Secret codes for boys , by Major ‘ Kipper ’ Piranha of the Argentinian Secret Service . |
| 15 | Br. , 1982 , 18 , 775 ) , Prof Michael Grätzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has managed to construct a photovoltaic cell out of cheap materials , and with an energy conversion efficiency that is commercially realistic ( Nature , 1991 , 353 , 737 ) . |
| 16 | Notebooks out plagiarists while I reveal the secret of NME 's enduring success : some music papers have been good at treating Rock as An Art Form , others have been great at capturing the essential triviality , sensuality and sheer stupidity of pop ; NME , when it 's been at its best , has managed to combine the two things without going stark staring schizo-bonkers . |
| 17 | This Government has managed to combine the worst qualities of scrooge , Shylock and Genghis khan . |
| 18 | But this is exceptional , as only one other fund has managed to beat the five-year average for the sector — the Friends Provident Stewardship North American fund , which is now worth £951.47 . |
| 19 | She seemed to have managed to collar a whole plate of them still on their sticks . |
| 20 | But things have turned round slightly in the last few weeks and erm the players have got themselves together and erm we 've managed to string a few results together . |
| 21 | We 've not managed to clear the speaker 's part of the platform as entirely as the Americans do , but at least we 've managed to create a decent space around the speaker . |
| 22 | In the period between albums , they 've managed to harness the raw power and aggression of their songs to greater effect live . |
| 23 | ‘ Folly , somehow we 've managed to get a crossed line here . |
| 24 | The Middle East International of March 6 commented that the " Islamic movement had managed to score a moral victory over the government and to show that a solid secular force in Jordan does not actually exist " . |
| 25 | After about three months I had managed to fill the entire cash book with this sort of mundane rubbish . |
| 26 | One of them was Guardsman Johnny Cooper who had managed to join the Scots Guards while still under age and who was very impressed by his commanding officer : ‘ he was different from the officers I had come into contact with up to that time . |
| 27 | He had managed to acquire a brown mark on his right cheek and in the centre of his chin , and a dark smear had appeared on the front of his shirt : this he had made worse by diligent rubbing . |
| 28 | He left a little money , he had managed to save a small amount , though God knows how in the war and just after . |
| 29 | The truth was that the Conservative party under Baldwin had managed to recover a large area of that middle ground in politics which is the key to electoral success and which they lost in 1206 , after being in possession for nearly twenty years before that . |
| 30 | Sergeant Davis had managed to conduct the whole conversation nicely balanced on an edge between politeness and aggression . |