Example sentences of "[noun sg] have not been [adv] successful " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive , but the occasion had not been very successful . |
| 2 | However , the policy has not been unequivocally successful , and it is interesting to note which contracts have turned out to be successes and which failures . |
| 3 | As we have already seen , attempts to explain the rapid changes in complex behaviour simply in terms of contingent relations between behaviour and the environment have not been particularly successful . |
| 4 | At first glance it appears that the government has not been particularly successful in bringing about reductions in local government expenditure . |
| 5 | They can therefore be viewed as an attempt to translate the methodological rigours of economic science to the sphere of political behaviour in which , as we have seen , the attempt to develop a scientific approach has not been entirely successful . |
| 6 | Whether this can be achieved is debatable because management schemes implemented to date have not been uniformly successful due to the tremendous variation in ecology and terrain . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |