Example sentences of "[pos pn] success was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a crucial ingredient in their success was the fielding of the team ( with Bland at the forefront ) and if Jonty Rhodes can inspire his team to come even close to such heights then the South African team of the 1990s may well go one step further than their illustrious predecessors . |
| 2 | This is why low fat diets work so efficiently and why so many followers of my diet said that the most important contributory factor to their success was the large amount of food they were allowed to eat . |
| 3 | A major reason for its success was the extreme reluctance of the army to run the power stations , largely because it did not believe that it could break the strike ( Ackroyd et al. , 1977 , pp. 64–6 ) . |
| 4 | To put the case far too bluntly , one might argue that a fifteenth-century scholar 's chief concern and the measure whereby he was judged was to achieve excellence in that is , knowledge or learning , through teaching and writing ; whereas a seventeenth-century scholar 's chief interest and the measuring rod of his success was the attainment of the high learned offices and the power , salary and perquisites that went with them . |
| 5 | The world number nine agreed that his success was the ideal Wimbledon tonic , noting : ‘ What could be better than winning the tournament ? |