Example sentences of "has managed [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 2 | SENALEP has managed to negotiate an interlude in the women 's backbreaking workload : one group is freed from manual labour for two or three hours each day to join in the literacy programme . |
| 3 | The Lake District has managed to retain an atmosphere of remoteness , peace and beauty . |
| 4 | Being island cattle , however , they have developed to some extent in isolation , especially on Jersey , a tiny island which has managed to breed a cow whose fame is worldwide , and with justice . |
| 5 | Informs us that she has managed to buy a piano with her savings . ’ |
| 6 | Newham council has managed to maintain a consensus that equal opportunities override the claims of minority religious leaders , despite pressures from religious lobbies . |
| 7 | Keith Waugh has managed to make a career in the RAF a family concern — and is making a tremendous success of it . |
| 8 | By juggling with various permutations of bulky groups ( R , R , and R in the diagram ) , Busch has managed to make a complex which has a good affinity for oxygen and is stable . |
| 9 | Despite that he has managed to keep a group of people around him who have a loyalty both to him and to the company . ’ |
| 10 | Israel 's well-equipped military has managed to keep a lid on the uprising degenerating into chaos , but it has n't defeated the armies of stone-throwing youths . |
| 11 | Mosley 's comments suggest that he has managed to supervise a compromise deal in the corridors of power involving Frank Williams and Flavio Briatore , the boss of the Benetton team , who had firmly opposed Williams 's late entry for the championship . |
| 12 | One company that has managed to find a way through the red tape is Fraser Charters Inc , who offer skippered charter in the Sea of Cortez and Mexican Riviera areas . |
| 13 | Practical PC has managed to get a sneak preview of what 's on the way . |
| 14 | ‘ are significant improvements in watercourses either because one has managed to get a discharger to cause his discharge to cease or to be brought up to a standard where a very significant polluting input has stopped , and there is a corresponding improvement in the overall river system . |
| 15 | So far COHSE has drawn encouragement from the fact that despite general interest no unit or trust has managed to get a job evaluation scheme off the ground . |