Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] successful " in BNC.

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1 None of these requests has been successful .
2 Cotswold Wildlife Park has been successful in rearing Black Swans from Australia and , of particular note , the unusual Coscoroba Swans from South America , which have piebald cygnets .
3 The holder of that office must have some way of measuring whether such a huge and expensive change has been successful .
4 How is the teacher to tell that her teaching has been successful ?
5 LASMO has been successful in acquiring a highly sought after block offshore Vietnam .
6 L'Auberge has been successful in the past because :
7 Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending .
8 ‘ Oh , I know your research has been successful , but you 're too inclined to work on your own , not to share your thinking with your colleagues .
9 He considered this action to have been successful , as the right wingtip struck the ground first , followed by the nose .
10 The Hungarian authorities consider the experiment to have been successful .
11 Centre director Anthony Roberts learned yesterday the bid had been successful .
12 Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector .
13 The little boy 's search had been successful , for now he brandished the scarlet sports car which was the prize of his collection .
14 These solutions have been successful in providing users with the ability to fire off queries to multiple databases .
15 These solutions have been successful in providing users with the ability to fire off queries to multiple databases .
16 The development of telephone advice for rural areas has been successful both in East Anglia and in Northumberland .
17 The benefits of the system have already been recognised and Thistle has been successful in securing a number of major contracts for several North Sea oil operators .
18 At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District .
19 The ploy had worked surprisingly well , especially when Candy had learned that Bernie had been successful and that Ace Elliot was to be the star guest .
20 If Rees had been successful there , it would have meant that legislation would have had to be introduced into Parliament which would remove those legal disabilities affecting transsexuals which the court may find contravene the Convention .
21 In December 1990 , Sonia Malhi , who was facing deportation because her marriage broke down , forcing her to leave her home because of domestic violence , heard that her campaign against deportation had been successful .
22 It is no wonder that ordinary men and women throughout the country wish that Guy Fawkes had been successful when they consider the punishment that this House has levelled at ordinary men and women in a state of poverty .
23 Biannual national vaccination days and house-to-house visits to vaccinate children in high-risk areas have been successful in eliminating wild poliomyelitis infection from Latin America , and have become the cornerstone of the current global eradication strategy .
24 Northern Ireland companies have been successful in the area of export development but they can not afford to be complacent about what lies ahead .
25 Even when an in-house team has been successful the changes in many local authorities have been significant , costs have been cut and management has adopted more competitive attitudes .
26 If the vendor 's business has been successful he will normally wish to sell the shares in the company that operates the business .
27 Once you are satisfied that the move has been successful , you may delete the original directory contents and directory file .
28 The inter-parliamentary body has been successful .
29 He told me that I was not badly hurt , and that the plan to catch Johann had been successful .
30 It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing .
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