Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry James was followed by the Benson brothers , E. F. Benson the novelist and A. C , for years Master of Oxford 's Magdalen College — I wonder if anyone has succeeded in editing the twenty-six volumes of autobiography he left . |
| 2 | In the event , minor engineering work to the existing twin-catalyst 6.7-litre pushrod V8 has succeeded in achieving the desired results . |
| 3 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 4 | Can Sandra Bernhard ( FACE 48 ) seriously believe that , because it is she who is stripping for Playboy and not some ‘ subservient bimbo ’ , she has succeeded in subverting the soft-porn medium ? |
| 5 | Although so far no one has succeeded in interpreting the Etruscan language we can fully appreciate their sculpture , painting and craftsmanship . |
| 6 | To ask the Attorney-General what progress he has made in identifying the total cost of the ’ Spycatcher ’ litigation . |
| 7 | It has gone in repaying the overseas debt that we inherited from the last Labour Government . |
| 8 | The leaders promised to co-operate in ending the civil wars and the conflicts between states which were hindering the continent 's development , in particular the border conflict between Mauritania and Senegal , the subject of an OAU commission report presented during the summit , and the civil war in Liberia [ see pp. 37601-02 ] . |
| 9 | On Oct. 5 the Standing Committee of the Supreme People 's Assembly approved North Korea 's first law on foreign investment , in a move which was intended to help in reviving the stagnating economy . |
| 10 | It just so happens that Irish national — popular consciousness interprets the presence of the British state in Ireland as a form of aggression and hence feel justified in repelling the British from Ireland . |
| 11 | In this particular case , the minister did ‘ not feel justified in overriding the proper interests of the objector as long as his business is maintained on an inoffensive scale ’ . |
| 12 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 13 | The Mons road offered the shortest route to Brussels , and if Brussels fell the Emperor would have succeeded in driving the British back to the North Sea and the Prussians back across the Rhine . |
| 14 | Although this adaptation may have succeeded in improving the general light level , you can do more by adding to the illumination of individual areas , so take a look at what other light sources are available . |
| 15 | The major problems you will have encountered in preparing the consolidated profit and loss account are likely to have been the calculation of the unrealised profit provisions and the minority interest . |
| 16 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 17 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 18 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 19 | Tactics which Branson had developed in negotiating the fine points of recording contracts were now amplified in the more complex arena of aircraft negotiation . |
| 20 | By 1971 , when the official counter-subversion program COINTELPRO was ‘ ended ’ , the wide range of tactics used , including assassination , heavily armed raids , falsification and fabrication of documents , misinformation as news , and tying up activists in endless trials , had succeeded in destroying the Black Panthers and other militant Black groups . |
| 21 | By 1971 , when the official counter-subversion program COINTELPRO was ‘ ended ’ , the wide range of tactics used , including assassination , heavily armed raids , falsification and fabrication of documents , misinformation as news , and tying up activists in endless trials , had succeeded in destroying the Black Panthers and other militant Black groups . |
| 22 | Until then I had succeeded in holding the impinging world at bay as well as in the desperate attempt to establish my own identity , but it was only at a bitter cost to myself . |
| 23 | We left our particular section of this story back in 1910 , when the male trade-union movement had succeeded in stopping the future recruitment of women . |
| 24 | The plan had succeeded in reducing the annual rate of inflation from 70 to 10 per cent , and had reduced the ratio of public debt to GDP from 206 to 132 per cent . |
| 25 | A second round was held on June 17 in 81 constituencies , where no candidate had succeeded in obtaining the necessary first round overall majority ; the turnout in this second round was 84.14 per cent of those eligible . |
| 26 | The arguments were similar to those Senior had used in criticising the English unitary authorities : all-purpose authorities would reflect neither the administrative needs of the services , nor the boundaries of community feeling ( Wheatley 1969 : 164 — 5 ) . |
| 27 | Nathaniel Hawthorne spoke of the ‘ phantasmagorical antics ’ he had played in describing the socialist community which appears in The Blithedale Romance : the antics played in the commune conceived by Ahmed could also be called phantasmagorical . |
| 28 | When the Birds of Australia was finally completed in June 1848 , Gould generously and justly acknowledge the vital role his amanuensis had played in running the entire business while he was away . |
| 29 | What Marx was trying to do in constructing the Asiatic system was to reconcile , on the one hand the reports of the strength of the village communities which characterized many of the accounts of Asian villages and which was manifested in their apparent ability to act organically , for example in the close co-operation and mutual reasonableness required in irrigated agriculture , and , on the other hand , a traditional view of the despotism of oriental rulers , a view which dominated European pictures of the Orient , at least since the time of Montesquieu . |
| 30 | Moreover , while Ms Heneson does mention in passing the other categories of AIDS victims — Haitian immigrants , IV drug users and transfused haemophiliacs — she refers to AIDS as the ‘ latest manifestation of Sodom and Gomorrah , ’ which betrays a serious ignorance of current Biblical scholarship , and she emphasises ‘ sexually hyperactive , urban gay men ’ . |