Example sentences of "succeeded in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other parties succeeded in reaching the 5 per cent threshold required to win representation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is where the real debate is and where the Government have succeeded in taking the high ground . |
| 6 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the event , minor engineering work to the existing twin-catalyst 6.7-litre pushrod V8 has succeeded in achieving the desired results . |
| 9 | In practice , a number of dealers had not succeeded in passing the little BIDS exam , and obviously had n't bothered to cheat their way through it either . |
| 10 | However , it would be simplistic to conclude that the two Mcs ( McLuhan and McDonald 's ) have succeeded in shaping the global village in the form of a fast food outlet or that the ‘ real ’ world is in the process of being reconstructed as a universal theme park along the lines of Disneyland . |
| 11 | In Tallinn , Estonia 's capital , on May 15 around 2,000 members of Estonia 's Russian minority opposed to Estonian independence staged a noisy demonstration during which part of the crowd rushed the gates of the Supreme Soviet building and occupied the courtyard , and briefly succeeded in replacing the Estonian tricolour flying above the building with the red flag of Soviet Estonia . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that swordfish have succeeded in piercing the bottom planking of boats , but if any were ever sunk in this way is unknown . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He eventually found that the ideal mix was 55 per cent Polled Lincoln Red , 35 per cent Polled Beef Shorthorn ( he had also succeeded in polling the latter ) and 10 per cent Aberdeen Angus , which improved the qualities he desired without reducing size and liveweight gains . |
| 18 | But appeals from the platform succeeded in dissuading the civil rights supporters from making any further attempt to breach the police cordon , and the trouble was contained . |
| 19 | The minority , the tiny minority , succeeded in persuading the American authorities that they should not be returned . |
| 20 | Does she agree that we should build on the remarkable achievement of the Kazakhstani people who , before the break-up of the Soviet Union , succeeded in closing the main nuclear test site in Kazakhstan ? |
| 21 | Although so far no one has succeeded in interpreting the Etruscan language we can fully appreciate their sculpture , painting and craftsmanship . |
| 22 | Her arrival , and the exclamations of admiration that greeted her , succeeded in defusing the last of the tension caused by Geoffrey 's tactless remarks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We have succeeded in isolating the homologous tRNA gene from Candida albicans by amplifying the genomic DNA by the polymerase chain reaction and sequenced . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | They are there because their ancestors succeeded in doing the same . |
| 29 | A frightened boy , a boy who , in spite of trying with all his might to please the man who had married his mother , had only succeeded in doing the exact opposite . |
| 30 | They might thus be characterised as the two Ugly Sisters who through their actions succeeded in making the British economy the Cinderella of the industrialised world — and the USA could be cast as the Bad Fairy who ensured that the Ugly Sisters always got their way . |