Example sentences of "have not been [adv] successful " in BNC.

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1 ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . )
2 However , this has not been particularly successful .
3 At first glance it appears that the government has not been particularly successful in bringing about reductions in local government expenditure .
4 and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ?
5 But in contrast , the DTI has not been notably successful in bringing prosecutions against insiders based on the dossiers provided — as the Geoffrey Collier case demonstrates .
6 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 ) .
7 The realignment of exchange rates discussed above might suggest that it has not been very successful in promoting greater exchange rate stability .
8 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 .
9 If this has not been entirely successful , some recognition of the problem has at least been achieved .
10 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 .
11 Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes that ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be .
12 Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be .
13 The ‘ evening ’ , if such it could be called , had not been exactly successful , though one obviously should n't expect too much of a chance meeting .
14 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 .
15 This time , however , the physicist could see from his instruments that it had not been totally successful .
16 If England had not been so successful , then perhaps I would be moaning .
17 The Peace Alliance had , as a result , attracted support from a variety of national figures , but had not been so successful in the organized Labour movement .
18 Erm and as part of that committee I believe we 've not been very successful .
19 However , in the face of increasing restraint on public expenditure , these have not been notably successful .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education .
23 It is this type of thinking that lies behind the US Justice Department 's Vertical Restraints Guidelines mentioned above , though White ( in this issue ) remarks that these 1985 Guidelines have not been particularly successful in clarifying the issues , and vertical restraints remain an unsatisfactory area of US antitrust policy .
24 However , attempts to estimate percentage crystallinity in a sample using n.m.r. have not been particularly successful .
25 It was also stated that , even at the level of explaining security returns , CAPM tests using historic data have not been terribly successful .
26 The government has attempted some favela removal programs , but these have not been very successful , mainly because the new housing schemes are too expensive .
27 Elsewhere , however , management strategies have not been as successful .
28 One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search .
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