Example sentences of "[adv] managed to achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 2 | I was given soup from the middle pot , meaning I had just managed to achieve my work quota . |
| 3 | During the course of February Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu finally managed to achieve the necessary legislative support for his plan to provide an additional US$9,000 million towards the cost of the allied war effort against Iraq . |
| 4 | This is a popular choice among cloners and even though it was uncached it still managed to achieve data transfer dates in excess of 900Kb/sec . |
| 5 | Yet the only writer who knew himself to be mortally ill and yet managed to achieve great things was Franz Kafka : ‘ It is not easy to build an oeuvre knowing that one has a revolver pointed at one 's neck . ’ |
| 6 | But no country has yet managed to achieve a low birth rate while infant deaths rates remain high . |
| 7 | Mr and Mrs Jones would like Olwyn in bed by 8pm but they have never managed to achieve this and have given up trying because , when they did try , Olwyn flew in a violent temper and then ran away . |
| 8 | They have argued that Elizabeth 's church contained a variety of acceptable doctrinal positions , that predestinarianism never managed to achieve the dominance accorded it by Tyacke , and that at no time during the sixty-five years between 1560 and 1625 was the idea that good works could be an aid to salvation anything other than a perfectly orthodox belief . |
| 9 | The research is concerned with both the trappings of formal organisation structures as well as with the substance of how these are actually managed to achieve specific results . |