Example sentences of "succeed in [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 11 President Fernando Collor de Mello , whose National Reconstruction Party ( PRN ) held only 31 of the 570 seats in the Congress , succeeded in dividing the opposition by winning approval for his economic re-adjustment plan announced on March 15 [ see p. 37312 ] . |
| 2 | A detailed exploration of the area has succeeded in locating the headquarters of the rebel leader who led the revolt of 66-70AD and who fought alongside the Masada rebels for several years . |
| 3 | Their ‘ Metropolis ’ of 1991 on the other hand , also in Berlin , is generally thought not have succeeded in pointing the way for the decade , probably because the art scene is much more fragmented now and no single trend can be identified . |
| 4 | The upper class in Western societies have normally succeeded in maintaining a high degree of social closure , and show very distinct values and patterns of behaviour . |
| 5 | Although the Mulroney government had generally succeeded in maintaining a tight rein on federal spending , the country 's budget deficit had remained stubbornly high at around Can . |
| 6 | Briefly put , Russian Formalism did away with the distinction between form and content , and in its interest in form succeeded in attributing a totally new function to it . |
| 7 | The move to cash planning meant that even if health service or teachers ' unions succeeded in reaching a pay settlement , there was no likelihood it would be funded in full , except by the NHS or local authorities making cuts in their non-salary budgets or employing fewer staff . |
| 8 | In spite of the firing 300 demonstrators succeeded in reaching the border at Chakoti , where Khan eventually agreed to call off the march . |
| 9 | No other parties succeeded in reaching the 5 per cent threshold required to win representation . |
| 10 | However , if the original social and education objectives of the course have not been met it has nevertheless succeeded in tapping the hidden intellectual and educational potential of many working-class men and women . |
| 11 | From an initial position of advantage in immediate post-war Britain — when food was required almost at any cost — the agricultural interest succeeded in capturing the regulatory mechanism through the exercise of highly successful pressure-group politics . |
| 12 | His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner . |
| 13 | As reported on June 6 , the RPF had succeeded in capturing the town of Biumba the previous day but failed to hold it ; the official death toll was 24 rebels and three government soldiers killed . |
| 14 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 15 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 16 | I hope we have succeeded in appointing a Project Manager and will be able to get him here to start work sooner rather than later . |
| 17 | Nationalist movements within the European Community have not yet succeeded in fragmenting the states within which they operate . |
| 18 | NAF , Grunwick boss George Ward and the mass media have succeeded in shifting the emphasis of the dispute away from the right to join a union and the treatment of black workers to a debate on the tools of working-class struggle generally ; the closed shop and the picket … . |
| 19 | One is that Mr Lawson has not yet succeeded in getting a handle on domestic demand , and the signs of success this summer were misleading . |
| 20 | The worrying thing is that botch-up or not they have succeeded in getting a car and two operatives into England . ’ |
| 21 | The anchor handling vessel Monika Viking succeeded in getting a tow line on board the accommodation platform yesterday as weather eased after the airlift of 400 non-essential personnel from it on Sunday . |
| 22 | His Isle of Purbeck Railway succeeded in getting an Act of Parliament in 1863 but came to nothing in face of the local hostility and opposition from landowners . |
| 23 | Rolls-Royce is having success with its excellent new Trent engines and has succeeded in getting an order for the Airbus A330 . |
| 24 | SAVE challenged this , succeeded in getting the building listed and argued that the building could be used as an extension for a nearby office that already had on-site car-parking . |
| 25 | By time-honoured methods of mandarin machination the Treasury succeeded in getting the Department abolished in 1966 . |
| 26 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 27 | This is where the real debate is and where the Government have succeeded in taking the high ground . |
| 28 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 29 | At first , the Germans succeeded in penetrating a single point in the British line to the north . |
| 30 | Although to my knowledge no digital scanner has yet succeeded in penetrating the ravages of gall , that most seductive and most lethal of enhancing media so widely used by 19th-century archivists , electronic cameras and image processors are working effectively on fire damage , glue and other forms of obliteration . |