Example sentences of "a [adj] and [adv] successful [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The same hospital called me in early for a quick and very successful cataract operation ( lens implant ) , seemingly in order to treat as many patients as possible before the go-slow came into effect .
2 The artist has created a marvellous pattern out of the limbs of beasts and men superposed in parallel planes stepped back to the ground and punctuated by the frontal heads of the near oxen ; a sophisticated and brilliantly successful design .
3 At Friends of the Earth , Jonathan Porritt similarly fought a long and largely successful battle to demonstrate that efficiency and negotiation with the opposition do n't have to mean sell-out .
4 And yoga , they argue , can contribute to a healthy and more successful life .
5 Frame had since 1961 been a dynamic and highly successful liaison officer , and could reasonably have been expected to serve the BDDA for several more years .
6 Mr Major replied : ‘ I would be delighted to see a stronger and more successful Merchant Navy .
7 Space limitations mean one can only select a little from what was a varied and highly successful programme , so I will concentrate on two areas .
8 The regiment traces its history back to the Siege of Carroburg in 1865 , when it mounted a valiant and wholly successful defence of the walls in the face of a huge army led by the Count of Middenland .
9 The first third of the book ( three chapters ) is an ambitious and generally successful attempt to explain , at a level appropriate to the educated nonscientist , how computational science works , specifically how the continuum ( or quantum mechanical ) equations that describe physical reality can be accurately approximated by discrete computational techniques such as finite difference , finite element , Monte Carlo or N-body particle models .
10 An able and highly successful mining engineer , he had also show outstanding ability and humanity in organizing relief for war-stricken Europe in 1919 .
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