Example sentences of "has managed [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC has managed to use some archive material without coming into conflict with the unions , and David Attenborough 's Video book of British Garden Birds is a good example of what narrowcasting can offer . |
| 2 | A somewhat lonely figure , often mocked for his retreats to the Kalahari or the Hebrides , he has managed to tap popular concern about the environment , education , and racial disadvantage . |
| 3 | No one has managed to stop outdoor heat exchangers frosting up during winter , but the availability of air makes it the most likely source for domestic , mass-produced heat pumps in Britain . |
| 4 | Mrs Fellows , admitted for an operation on her varicose veins , is adequately hydrated and has been following the dietary advice she was given in the Outpatient Clinic and has managed to lose some weight . |
| 5 | Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy . |
| 6 | ‘ I LIKE to play the piano , ’ said the 24-year-old musical genius who has managed to cross all age barriers with his blend of nineties-style big band swing . |
| 7 | Considering the concern he has had lately , Montgomerie has managed to play superb golf . |
| 8 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 9 | " Spain has managed to maintain those areas much as they have been since the Middle Ages , because industrial development here has been much slower than in other European nations . |
| 10 | Over the years she has managed to raise more support than any other branch in the West of Scotland . |
| 11 | By buying his fish small and young he has managed to keep several species together successfully . |
| 12 | However Zimbabwe has managed to produce huge surpluses of maize , in non-drought years , with a much higher proportion than before grown by peasant farmers encouraged by good prices and improved roads . |
| 13 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 14 | My uncle , with his vast professional knowledge of the saleyard , has managed to find four horses which , although in bad condition — and therefore within our price range — are what ‘ Horse and Hound ’ calls proven performers . |
| 15 | All that says is that this particular product line is not following a smooth transition from youth to middle age and then old age , but that it has managed to find some rejuvenation late in life . |
| 16 | Celia has managed to get fresh fish today and she 's cooked it in spices , just how you like it . ’ |
| 17 | Wreathed with white wistaria , they are half-hidden behind a ghostly phalanx of variegated osteospermum , Salvia argentea , white allium and a banksiae rose which has managed to escape predatory Wicklow deer . |