Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] successful " in BNC.
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| 1 | To fail in marriage nowadays is to go bankrupt in a business of life in which everyone engages and in which the large majority at least appear to be successful . |
| 2 | And it was expected to be successful . |
| 3 | Nerves of steel help if you want to be successful in media buying . |
| 4 | If you want to be successful in public relations you must be literate , articulate and numerate and have a flair with words . |
| 5 | I really want to be successful . ’ |
| 6 | Laser treatment was considered to be successful if symptoms caused by intraluminal tumour were reduced to an extent that enabled the patient to lead a lifestule appropriate to his or her age and general condition without constant concern for bowel function . |
| 7 | The business community recognises that those enterprises deemed to be successful are those which are responsive to market changes . |
| 8 | Women who reach higher education are not deemed to be successful by virtue of having done so ; on the contrary , higher education continues to exclude and marginalize its female students , pushing them further into ‘ female ’ jobs or marriage and family . |
| 9 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 10 | Second : give people a reason for wanting to be successful . |
| 11 | One also needs to give people a reason for wanting to be successful . |
| 12 | For the overall systems project to be successful , however , the design needs to allow for integration later . |
| 13 | Between 780 and 782 Saxony seemed to be well under control ; even when Charles left the country , no immediate rebellion occurred , and enforced missionary work seemed to be successful . |
| 14 | The chosen design of an individual gear is seen to be successful only if it not only meshes with the next gear in the train but also contributes to the selection of the desired gearbox ratios . |
| 15 | It is becoming fashionable once again to be seen to be successful , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Look , do n't hold out too much hope that you 're going to be successful in this . |
| 17 | I had a very deep feeling that the attack on the village by the Black Watch was not going to be successful due to the fact that the enemy were well dug in and were determined to hold on to this position . |
| 18 | This plan 's only going to be successful if they do n't suspect anything , and if they see her around they 'll suspect lots . |
| 19 | ‘ We have always said if we are going to be successful you have just got to try and keep winning and not worry about other results . ’ |
| 20 | If you are going to be successful sometimes you have to do that . ’ |
| 21 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 22 | So I think there is a need to plan for a location where this new settlement is going to be successful , recognizing that failure to attract appropriate er private sector interest will mean poor quality design and social provision which will obviously detract from the new settlement as a place to live and also undermine its role in terms of the Greater York area . |
| 23 | ‘ There is a recognition that the climate or culture of an organisation is a strong determinant of whether the organisation is going to be successful . |
| 24 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 25 | If it can be shown to be successful at bureau level then there are certainly grounds for extending it throughout the democratic structure of the CAB . |
| 26 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 27 | Once the project has been carried out and shown to be successful , subsequent written or verbal reports can outline other uses of the microcomputer based in the school library , leading to the acquisition of a library based microcomputer or the reallocation of an existing microcomputer to the school library . |
| 28 | Er it would n't have been so bad you know because we when we set out first it was just you know to be successful at home and then we were successful over here and that was you know was the serious big surprise . |
| 29 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 30 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |