Example sentences of "have not [been] [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 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |