Example sentences of "[noun sg] succeed [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new leader succeeded in reducing the huge gap between the two parties , and announced a hastily concocted " growth agreement " with the Council of Trade Unions which was designed to lay the ghost of " Rogernomics " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The organisers of the Basingstoke Open Day succeeded in assembling the largest collection of motive power types ever seen on BR . |
| 4 | If the incumbents of high office on opposite sides of the city 's Royal Mile succeed in blocking the proposed art sales , they will place themselves under an obligation to produce an alternative solution to the financial crisis . |
| 5 | In 1978 , on the basis of their professional knowledge of schooling and civil administration , the organization succeeded in obtaining the necessary government permission to open in Dalkey a multi-denominational school governed principally by the parents , the mode of religious instruction to be determined by them . |
| 6 | However , with called up ordinary shares totalling nearly 274,000 from an authorised figure of 350,000 , the vast majority of DVR shareholders still fall into the category of casual supporters who bought a stake to help the Company succeed in running the original Dart Valley line from Totnes to Ashburton , and the later Torbay acquisition . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner . |