Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [be] successful " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secure in his job , with a growing international reputation , and uxoriously contented with his comely Sophie , lie knew himself to be successful and suspected himself to be happy . |
| 2 | Doing the diet with someone else or in a small group will help you to be successful . |
| 3 | Within this simplified conception , the role of linguistic factors in education is easy to define : some children come to school equipped with an elaborated code which enables them to be successful in class because they can use it to analyse , describe , speculate , and so on ; other children fail , because they do not possess this code . |
| 4 | I try to put myself in their shoes , because it can not be emphasized often enough that business is very much like war , despite the optimistic view that there is enough scope and space for everybody to be successful . |
| 5 | The technology does exist for recycling plastics but , for it to be successful , packaging would have to be made from one type of plastic only . |
| 6 | And even if Harvey had written just about the whole of Amaranth 's damn speech , she would , were it to be successful , be more in need of his favours than Harvey 's . |
| 7 | ‘ For it to be successful , I would have thought some form of power at least to recommend smallish settlements would be a useful aspect … but I would n't envisage the ombudsman as someone dealing with huge claims . ’ |
| 8 | These include the ‘ Talking Pelican ’ and ‘ Key Crossing ’ facilities which have proved themselves to be successful . |
| 9 | You love England , you above all want us to be successful . |