Example sentences of "succeed in [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission made concessions in some areas but , backed by the Netherlands and the UK , succeeded in staying within the expenditure ceiling of ECU32,500 million set in February 1988 [ see p. 35914 ] . |
| 2 | Despite the time that had elapsed from Schuman 's original declaration to ratification , the ECSC succeeded in escaping from the drawing board relatively easily . |
| 3 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 4 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 5 | as if to confirm her pedestrian turn of mind , Miss Logan at this point revealed that it had been a matter of curiosity to her since childhood how the Ark had succeeded in resting upon the top of a mountain . |
| 6 | The publications of Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt have succeeded in bringing into the mainstream of art history the study of artist 's pattern books and travel notebooks , which were so important for the dissemination of ideas and motifs , as well as book illustration and marginalia drawings . |
| 7 | Asking students to supply a title which refers to discourse type as well as topic , is a quick way of checking they have succeeded in orientating towards the discourse as a whole . |
| 8 | Heeding Lady Barber 's wish that the ‘ purchases for the Collection shall be of that standard of quality required by the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection ’ , the Trustees have succeeded in acquiring over the years a group of paintings , drawings , sculptures , and objet d'art of exceptional merit , a number of them undisputed masterpieces . |
| 9 | Therefore the contraction in demand engineered by the government only succeeded in adding to the unemployment problem . |
| 10 | Terry appeared to be having a nervous breakdown ; her mother was foolishly trying to be everything to everybody and only succeeded in adding to the confusion . |
| 11 | I do n't feel that I have succeeded in mixing with the community as well as I would like to have done . |
| 12 | far from being crushed as a nation by the Russian conquest , the Yakuts succeeded in adapting to the ways of their conquerors and extended their own influence over their Tungus and Yukagir neighbours , not to mention the Russians themselves . |
| 13 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 14 | We shall only succeed in dealing with the problems through a vast international cooperative effort . |
| 15 | Further , they certainly did not succeed in swimming against the deep tide of recession which engulfed Nigeria from 1983 onwards . |
| 16 | He wanted to design and build a range of guitars which would succeed in shrugging off the ‘ another Strat , another Tele ’ tag which other companies seem content to carry . |
| 17 | The financial forecasts assume that the University will in due course succeed in recovering from the research councils the funds which it is expected will be lost from its HEFCE grant under the DR-shift . |
| 18 | His comment is restrained enough but then he knows that Bill Clinton will soon succeed in creaming off the excess fat that has kept America 's top earners happy for so long . |
| 19 | The Gascon origins of both Clement V and John XXII made this much easier , and although the house of Foix-Béarn did not succeed in marrying into the papal clan , a strengthening of bonds with the Duèse family ( from Cahors ) can be detected in a number of casual , but significant , references . |
| 20 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 21 | The fundamental question proved to be this : can the job creation and training schemes for West Belfast succeed in turning round the economic marginalisation and discrimination which the area has traditionally experienced ? |
| 22 | Even if they succeeded in breaking through the sepoy lines , where would they go ? |
| 23 | After heated debate and repeated votes , Gorbachev succeeded in pushing through the legislation , which effectively meant the deputies voting themselves out of office . |
| 24 | An example of this procedure is the Declaration on border controls and immigration which Britain succeeded in appending to the Single European Act . |
| 25 | He was wounded eight times altogether , and on the last occasion he succeeded in getting into the air before the scars were properly healed . |
| 26 | It was all too clear that the writers actually understood little about the subject matter , and that the understanding they succeeded in imparting to the public was correspondingly less . |
| 27 | They succeeded in closing off the third of five underground conduits formed beneath the surface crust and through which red-hot magma has been flowing . |
| 28 | Somehow , in the confusion of rapid troop movements , El Cid never succeeded in joining with the royal army , though he certainly attempted I to do so . |
| 29 | We shall see how much or how little of local nuances it succeeded in conveying to the top authorities . |
| 30 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |