Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [not/n't] [be] [adv] successful " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 2 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 3 | Erm and as part of that committee I believe we 've not been very successful . |
| 4 | The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability . |
| 5 | ‘ It does n't seem to bother you that it has n't been altogether successful so far . ’ |
| 6 | If he wants to do it his way and he succeeds then great , but so far it has n't been that successful . |
| 7 | This time , however , the physicist could see from his instruments that it had not been totally successful . |
| 8 | To judge by his continued expression of smug amusement , it had n't been entirely successful . |
| 9 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |