Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adv] successful [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first glance it appears that the government has not been particularly successful in bringing about reductions in local government expenditure . |
| 2 | But in contrast , the DTI has not been notably successful in bringing prosecutions against insiders based on the dossiers provided — as the Geoffrey Collier case demonstrates . |
| 3 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 4 | The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability . |
| 5 | Long-time exhibitor at the Ceramics Fair , Clemens Van der Ven of s'Hertogenbosch , The Netherlands , who specialises in Oriental Art , explains his continued presence at the fair : ‘ The Ceramics Fair has always been very successful for us . |
| 6 | It has also been deftly successful with its new Universal credit card . |
| 7 | The Peace Alliance had , as a result , attracted support from a variety of national figures , but had not been so successful in the organized Labour movement . |
| 8 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 9 | He had subsequently been very successful as a writer . |
| 10 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 11 | It is this type of thinking that lies behind the US Justice Department 's Vertical Restraints Guidelines mentioned above , though White ( in this issue ) remarks that these 1985 Guidelines have not been particularly successful in clarifying the issues , and vertical restraints remain an unsatisfactory area of US antitrust policy . |
| 12 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 13 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 14 | British handhelds have n't been too successful in the past ( remember the Gamate ? |
| 15 | One general point about the international agreements on the laws of war : they have never been very successful in addressing directly either the general issue of bombing from the air , or the particular issue of the use of nuclear weapons . |