Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [be] successful " in BNC.

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1 He 's running the club to be successful and if I 'm not , he 'll get somebody else .
2 For a marriage to be successful , partners need to be able to handle change constructively .
3 If the agent knows that a publisher , a record company and a manager have all invested , at least he or she can feel there are a number of people needing this act to be successful .
4 It is aimed either at the external hacker of which there are far fewer than press reports suggest or at the employee who though they have legitimate access legitimate lim limited access to a computer , nevertheless go beyond that authorization , but in order for the act to be successful , in order to get a successful prosecution , the prosecution have got to show that the access was unauthorized , and in the absence of clear codes of conduct , clear on-screen messages , that can be quite tricky .
5 Maintaining stability of the water chemistry is another key requirement to be successful with a marine system .
6 Finally , it is worth dwelling briefly on the role that users play in the innovation process , and on the factors which seem to be associated with successful innovation , since these are considerations which help to determine whether joint R&D activities need to be coupled with joint marketing to be successful .
7 The majority party want their leader to be successful and party loyalty is an important force within the British system .
8 The star a word you know Courtenay would hate being called to his face makes no bones about the fact that he wants The Miser to be successful because that will put money back into his favourite theatre , Manchester 's Royal Exchange , where the production originated .
9 The business world is one of constant change , and your business to be successful must be able to accommodate change without penalty .
10 In the end de Gaulle 's strategy had succeeded , but the fact that it had required Coty 's intervention to be successful showed just how risky it had been .
11 Were the Alliance to be successful , the NEC held that it would produce a weak government like that in France .
12 It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving .
13 As far as roof bolting and er the er length of advance without supports , current legislation 's very restrictive , I think it has to be opened upwards demonstrated by scientific evidence to be successful .
14 For any type of policy to be successful both of these conditions need to be satisfied or else the policy instruments under consideration will fail to give an adequate degree of control over macroeconomic objectives .
15 In order for such a policy to be successful and efficient the government has to have some idea of the size of any changes in tax rates and so on required to stabilize the economy , and some idea of when precisely such changes are required .
16 For monetary policy to be successful the values of these parameters would need to be known .
17 However , it requires accurate monitoring of emissions and air quality , as well as an effective supervision and enforcement system for this strategy to be successful .
18 The blueprint detective story to be successful with its readers , even if they do not realise what is being done with them , must have as much of " story " in it as of " detective " ; even in that most puzzle-oriented sub-genre , the locked-room mystery .
19 For progressive building to be successful , it was essential that the supply of completely manufactured parts should be on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced .
20 They could claim that they never had the opportunity to be successful whereas those who filled the top jobs owed their position to their relatives , friends and the advantages of birth .
21 The new Executive looks forward to the future , with a stern brow , a firm hand on the tiller and a will to be successful .
22 In the first round on April 30 , when 180 votes ( three-fifths of the total ) were required for a candidate to be successful , Karamanlis had received 149 votes , Alevras 123 and Despotopoulos 21 .
23 We have this insatiable drive to be successful in the markets we serve .
24 For the union to be successful the grafted vine forms a protective callus around the wound while the two plants seek compatibility .
25 For the project to be successful it was essential for each stool of the tripod which supported it — the government , the livestock owners and the Bank — to have an equal commitment to its success and to perceive the project in roughly the same terms .
26 ‘ On the other hand I think all the conditions are right for the challenge to be successful . ’
27 Captive-bred clowns are ideal for new starters to the hobby as , although clownfish are the easiest of marine subjects to keep , anemones demand perfect water quality and high intensity lighting to be successful .
28 For all his working of the flesh and his golden suntan and his deployment of pop philosophies and credos , Letterman is too contrived an individual to be successful with the sort of Frenchwoman — my gaze descends from the mountain to my backyard where they are pegging out a goatskin — whom he desires to play the part of Claudia .
29 For a scheme to be successful in the long term it is vital that there should be an organizational structure to support it .
30 Ryan raises one of the questions the movie will have to answer in order to be successful : whether or not creativity gives you a licence to search and destroy .
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