Example sentences of "[vb -s] succeed in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Byron 's is not the only ghost to be detected here : the cold hearts of his precursors Lovelace and Laclos 's Valmont are present in Pechorin , who has succeeded in attracting a certain princess . |
| 2 | The physical brain and the world of introspectible phenomenal experience are all that there really is : ‘ no cognitive psychologist has succeeded in defining another sort of input between these two which would provide the ultimate bits of information to which rules are applied ’ ( p. 199 ) . |
| 3 | A detailed exploration of the area has succeeded in locating the headquarters of the rebel leader who led the revolt of 66-70AD and who fought alongside the Masada rebels for several years . |
| 4 | In the event , minor engineering work to the existing twin-catalyst 6.7-litre pushrod V8 has succeeded in achieving the desired results . |
| 5 | 16 March 1928 : ‘ Probably no department of motoring is so useful to the community as racing , ’ said Sir William Joynson-Hicks , the Home Secretary and chief custodian of the 20mph speed limit , on the occasion of the luncheon for Captain Malcolm Campbell on his return from America , where he travelled faster than any man has succeeded in doing on land . |
| 6 | That 's why nobody has succeeded in creating a National Collection . ’ |
| 7 | In Turkey , a massive public education campaign has succeeded in immunising over 4 million children . |
| 8 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 9 | Miss Varda has succeeded in making a film without false nostalgia or sentiment , and the glowing black-and-white images ( with an occasional burst of colour ) have a sustained rhythm and elegance which correspond to Demy 's own infatuation with song-and-dance films . |
| 10 | In this sense , the DUP has succeeded in establishing its view of the constitutional crisis and the proper reactions to it . |
| 11 | Oxfam NoLoGo has succeeded in making the concept of recycling fun and giving charity shops a completely new look . |
| 12 | Woosnam names Bernhard Langer as his ‘ dark horse ’ and the German has succeeded in keeping an appropriately low profile even if he has had more practice rounds than anyone . |
| 13 | Henry James was followed by the Benson brothers , E. F. Benson the novelist and A. C , for years Master of Oxford 's Magdalen College — I wonder if anyone has succeeded in editing the twenty-six volumes of autobiography he left . |
| 14 | The parasite Nosema has succeeded in synthesizing ( a close chemical analogue of ) this hormone . |
| 15 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 16 | But if Bair has failed to tie up all de Beauvoir 's loose ends in a securely fastened knot , she has succeeded in writing a very readable biography of a woman whose significance to modern feminism is never underestimated . |
| 17 | The water decade has succeeded in forcing engineers , both in consultancies and in governments , to question whether their designs and ideas are meeting the needs of people in developing countries . |
| 18 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 19 | S. A. Kaplan has succeeded in presenting an informal yet exciting introduction to stellar structure and evolution . |
| 20 | The broadly favourable response from all quarters to the New Brighton and Vauxhall draft area strategies suggests MDC has succeeded in allaying local fears of inappropriate development and has responded to local aspirations in a way that will promote co-operation with the private sector . |
| 21 | If you want to be more popular , be ready with a small prize for each child who has succeeded in doing |
| 22 | Houston police are trying to find a man who has succeeded in getting teenage girls to pose nude for him by saying they will appear in a music video for NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK . |
| 23 | Using Divine , Swedish Telecom , which is a consortium of six TV and telecoms companies , has succeeded in squeezing high-definition digital pictures into the transmission space used in a normal TV system . |
| 24 | Can Sandra Bernhard ( FACE 48 ) seriously believe that , because it is she who is stripping for Playboy and not some ‘ subservient bimbo ’ , she has succeeded in subverting the soft-porn medium ? |
| 25 | IN these bleak times it is good to see that one veteran television star has succeeded in resurrecting his career . |
| 26 | HIS left foot is pointing away from her , which shows he is not confident that he has succeeded in his attempt to dominate her . |
| 27 | The recent political activities of Haringey Black Action has succeeded in raising the profile of Black lesbians and gay men . |
| 28 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 29 | GRAHAM HINKLEY , undertaking the restoration to flying condition of a Polish-built MiG-15 at Shoreham Airport , Sussex , and featured in the September FlyPast ( page 16 ) has succeeded in bringing a second aircraft into the country . |
| 30 | Although the NPT has succeeded in retarding the spread of nuclear weapons , there is no doubt that the treaty will collapse unless significant progress is made towards nuclear disarmament by the nuclear powers . |