Example sentences of "has managed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 2 | In any case , if a writer has managed to put some key point rather well , why not both give him the credit for doing so , and at the same time avoid struggling to reinvent the wheel ? |
| 3 | A British team guided by Mark Miller has managed to put an amazing 15 members on the summit of 7200m Masherbrum II — and claimed the second ascent and the first British ascent ! |
| 4 | No one has managed to put their stamp on Stockton South . |
| 5 | On the other hand , Laclotte has managed to assemble all the half-figures by , or attributed to , Giorgione and all the Sebastiano del Piombo 's from his Venetian period , including the ‘ Judgement of Solomon ’ from Kingston Lacey , Sussex . |
| 6 | Remarkably , Feigen has managed to assemble enough first rate examples ( several from museums ) to make yet another look at this seventeenth-century Emilian master worthwhile . |
| 7 | For all that , De Niro has managed to set up some favourable financial and distribution arrangements with Tri-Star , Columbia and Miramax films . |
| 8 | and finally tonight we 've news of the Gloucestershire village that has managed to succeed where the world of sport has failed miserably and that 's to re-run the 1993 Grand National … |
| 9 | That he has managed to carve out such a successful photographic career for himself is extraordinary when you consider that he spent the first 12 years of his working life as a bricklayer . |
| 10 | WESTLAND , the Yeovil helicopter giant at the centre of a Government storm seven years ago , has managed to lift off the ground . |
| 11 | According to Milan Ramljak , President of the five-man Croatian Commission and lecturer in law at Zagreb University , in spite of the war and the absence of any help from the Federal Commission , Croatia has managed to collect together a large file of evidence , including soil sample analyses which may be significant when they can be compared with analyses of the treasure and the cauldron in which it was found . |
| 12 | In Hong Kong , where the complicated city-scape tends to disperse the signal , GSM has managed to improve things by a mere 50% . |
| 13 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |
| 14 | Thomson has managed to hold its own on some soil , but it has done lamentably in selling domestic video equipment . |
| 15 | Indeed as Neuhaus has recognised ( 1986 ) it is precisely because religion has been forced out of the central corridors of power in America that the New Religious Right has managed to stride in with such urgency and rage . |
| 16 | Hugh Keevins finds out how Danny McGrain has managed to reach the Scottish Cup quarter-finals |
| 17 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 18 | Taken by some devils Maurice has managed to call up with his too-clever-by-half pat little schemes . |
| 19 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 20 | The BBC has managed to use some archive material without coming into conflict with the unions , and David Attenborough 's Video book of British Garden Birds is a good example of what narrowcasting can offer . |
| 21 | ANN CLWYD is a tough Parliamentary performer who has managed to force herself to the forefront of public attention despite holding the relatively low-profile portfolio of overseas development and cooperation in Labour 's Shadow Cabinet . |
| 22 | Unlike many other European countries , the ancient British aristocracy has managed to preserve and transmit its wealth through judicious marriage and inheritance . |
| 23 | John Raby has managed to sort out with Tom over the weekend most of his queries . |
| 24 | He turns , but the girl has managed to flee by the fire escape as Lepine makes his way to the bookstore . |
| 25 | Until now he has managed to push bills through the National Assembly , even though his Socialists are in a minority there , by making little deals with the conservatives or with the Communists . |
| 26 | All the even-toed ungulates share certain characteristics , which are important in understanding how the mountain goat has managed to adapt to the particularly inhospitable environment in which it lives . |
| 27 | SENALEP has managed to negotiate an interlude in the women 's backbreaking workload : one group is freed from manual labour for two or three hours each day to join in the literacy programme . |
| 28 | You can hardly believe that a few stretchsuits and some nappies can possibly cost as much as they say , but nine months and a lot of shopping trips later , you will have been forced to accept that your new addition has managed to tip the scales severely in the debit direction . |
| 29 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 30 | A somewhat lonely figure , often mocked for his retreats to the Kalahari or the Hebrides , he has managed to tap popular concern about the environment , education , and racial disadvantage . |