Example sentences of "[noun prp] succeed [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Lithuania succeeds in leaving the Soviet Union , Kaliningrad would become an enclave . |
| 2 | After a few moments search Thiercelin succeeded in tracing the relevant issue and spread the broadsheet on the table , translating hesitantly into French for the benefit of his colleague . |
| 3 | In Britain , the ‘ Darwinians ’ led by Huxley succeeded in dominating the scientific community of the late 1860s and 1870s , although opposition grew in later decades . |
| 4 | On April 2 hundreds of protesters in Tripoli succeeded in entering the Venezuelan embassy and burned down part of it ( the Venezuelan permanent representative at the UN , Diego Arria , having been president of the Security Council for the month of March ) . |
| 5 | It was by actively promoting such reforms that the Labour Party in West Ham succeeded in capturing the female vote when it was first exercised . |
| 6 | In 1991 Mr Waugh succeeded in persuading the Scottish Office to relax funding controls so that the project could be speeded up . |
| 7 | Although in November 1986 Mr Vafa succeeded in having the original decree totally recalled , an unusual move , the terms of the interdict were erroneously incorporated in the new decree . |