Example sentences of "succeed in [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.

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1 Dávila , however , was a bully , a cruel and insecure man whose constant attacks on the Indians succeeded in turning them from ‘ sheep ’ , as Balboa called them , into ‘ fierce lyons ’ .
2 Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology .
3 The lesson of that election was that only an alliance of all those who stood to the right of the Socialists could succeed in easing them from power .
4 Similarly , an imaginary case in which I would claim to know that p , but where p is false , will succeed in preventing me from claiming to know that p in a new case which is not relevantly ( i.e. , discernibly to me ) different .
5 Sometimes antibodies can be produced that bind to a virus but do not succeed in preventing it from entering and infecting cells ( called non-neutralising antibodies ) .
6 In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine .
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