Example sentences of "[noun] have managed [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Shekhar has managed to avoid a diplomatic row with America by quietly persuading President Bush to withdraw his request for permission . |
| 2 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 3 | I hate to keep bringing them up , but somehow the scum have managed to keep a large squad of mainly international players together . |
| 4 | A group at the University of Hokkaido is trying to isolate this chemical , which it calls glycinoeclopin A. So far the group has managed to obtain a tiny portion — 0.5 milligrams — of the substance and now it is trying to discover the chemical structure of the material . |
| 5 | Br. , 1982 , 18 , 775 ) , Prof Michael Grätzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has managed to construct a photovoltaic cell out of cheap materials , and with an energy conversion efficiency that is commercially realistic ( Nature , 1991 , 353 , 737 ) . |
| 6 | Christians had managed to set a moral example to their neighbours . |
| 7 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 8 | Composer Philip Glass has managed to create a new kind of music . |
| 9 | As we try to decide what to eat , we notice that Denice has managed to do a certain amount of major structural damage to her menu , resulting to the pages ' coming out of the middle . |
| 10 | The Middle East International of March 6 commented that the " Islamic movement had managed to score a moral victory over the government and to show that a solid secular force in Jordan does not actually exist " . |
| 11 | The Spaniards have managed to build a supreme ugly restaurant-cum-souvenir-shop on their side of the frontier , in a style of architecture suggesting its easy conversion , should border warfare ever one day replace tourism , into a defence post . |
| 12 | Lowden have managed to pack a big sound into a small package and the end result is a guitar that can cope with anything from basic stage accompaniment to virtuoso-standard fingerpicking . |
| 13 | Hugh Helps has managed to get a only small proportion of his linseed crop in … what he 's got is soaked through and he 's had to hire in expensive drying equipment . |
| 14 | In the light of these academic triumphs , it is surprising that the M. C. R. has managed to maintain a social life at all . |
| 15 | While operating within tight financial constraints , editor Terry Davies has managed to give a striking and punchy presentation with plenty of information . |
| 16 | Whereas Gaston had managed to buy a small boat to go fishing , Marius had not so much as managed the purchase of two matching garden chairs . |
| 17 | A Japanese researcher has managed to create a fresh mild garlic that does n't give you garlic breath . |
| 18 | The truth was that the Conservative party under Baldwin had managed to recover a large area of that middle ground in politics which is the key to electoral success and which they lost in 1206 , after being in possession for nearly twenty years before that . |
| 19 | Yet sports writers in America have managed to establish a long-standing tradition of literary credibility — Hemingway , Lardner , Gallico among many others . |
| 20 | ‘ Charlie had managed to kindle a little fire of dry grass and was adding twigs one by one and I was squatting beside him . |