Example sentences of "have managed [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Composer Philip Glass has managed to create a new kind of music . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the light of these academic triumphs , it is surprising that the M. C. R. has managed to maintain a social life at all . |
| 6 | In fact , Roddick has managed to achieve an astonishing uniformity with her worldwide network of shops . |
| 7 | Mr Shekhar has managed to avoid a diplomatic row with America by quietly persuading President Bush to withdraw his request for permission . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | She seemed to have managed to collar a whole plate of them still on their sticks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Folly , somehow we 've managed to get a crossed line here . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He left a little money , he had managed to save a small amount , though God knows how in the war and just after . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He eventually surfaced in the hospital kitchens , where , through his flirtatious manner with a fat lard-like female cook , he had managed to scrounge a free meal . |
| 19 | The undertaking was the dream of Yoshikuni Kamichika , its president , who , on a visit to Holland had been impressed at the way the Dutch had managed to retain an ecological balance despite their economic growth . |
| 20 | ‘ Charlie had managed to kindle a little fire of dry grass and was adding twigs one by one and I was squatting beside him . |
| 21 | Christians had managed to set a moral example to their neighbours . |
| 22 | By now he had managed to amass an impressive portfolio , and so was quickly given work by a couple of Spanish car magazines . |
| 23 | Tranmere would have won more comfortably if Aldridge , the League 's leading scorer with 38 goals , had managed to convert a fortuitous penalty , awarded for a handling offence by Butters . |
| 24 | The decision increased the degree of uncertainty surrounding the 1990 mayoral election , as none of the candidates for the Democratic primary , scheduled for the Sept. 11 , had managed to establish a clear lead . |
| 25 | McAllister had gone out , but only to speak to Rose , who had managed to obtain a new post as a maid-of-all-work , and , her half-day off also being Wednesday , had come to ask McAllister to go up West with her again . |
| 26 | Whereas Gaston had managed to buy a small boat to go fishing , Marius had not so much as managed the purchase of two matching garden chairs . |
| 27 | Yet , against all odds , he continued , " we have managed to take a gigantic step forward " , and proceeded to enumerate the regime 's achievements in grandiose — and extremely vague — terms . |
| 28 | I hate to keep bringing them up , but somehow the scum have managed to keep a large squad of mainly international players together . |
| 29 | Yet sports writers in America have managed to establish a long-standing tradition of literary credibility — Hemingway , Lardner , Gallico among many others . |
| 30 | We have managed to get a fair way into this chapter on food and diet before mentioning that subject dear to a slimmer 's heart , the calorific value of food . |