Example sentences of "have not [been] [adv] successful " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the face of increasing restraint on public expenditure , these have not been notably successful . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , attempts to estimate percentage crystallinity in a sample using n.m.r. have not been particularly successful . |
| 7 | It was also stated that , even at the level of explaining security returns , CAPM tests using historic data have not been terribly successful . |
| 8 | The government has attempted some favela removal programs , but these have not been very successful , mainly because the new housing schemes are too expensive . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , however , management strategies have not been as successful . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 12 | I 've tried to adapt an adult 's one but have n't been very successful . |
| 13 | British handhelds have n't been too successful in the past ( remember the Gamate ? |