Example sentences of "[vb pp] a great success " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full credit goes to secretary for organising the event which was deemed a great success . |
| 2 | The evening was deemed a great success — in more ways than one — as , in addition to the excellent dinner and the dancing , it also happened to be Red Nose Day and by fair means and foul the 155 people who attended , plus contributions from the social club , and the company , a total of £270 was raised for Comic Relief . |
| 3 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 4 | but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days . |
| 5 | In the leader column last week , on the same day Young Group 's shares were suspended , the newspaper felt sufficiently confident of Mr Young 's expertise to write : ‘ He is a man who has until recently made a great success of his business and it would be sad for the North-East if he did not continue to have a part to play . ’ |
| 6 | Having just lost out to Alan Alda in 1966 for the forthcoming Broadway comedy The Apple Tree , directed by Mike Nichols , but nonetheless now confirmed as a top off-Broadway character actor , Dustin landed the lead in Livings ' Eh ? , which had had a great success at the Aldwych Theatre , London , in Peter Hall 's Royal Shakespeare Company production exactly two years previously . |
| 7 | JC : Eric Crozier had had a great success producing The Bartered Bride . |
| 8 | THE SPONSORED loco-pull at The Railway Age in Crewe , organised as part of the 1992 ITV Telethon Appeal , has been judged a great success , by organisers , The Ivory Tower , The ‘ Duke of Gloucester ’ Steam Locomotive Trust , and the Trustees of The Railway Age . |
| 9 | Regardless of technical hitches Pathfinders in Space was judged a great success , leading to a second series being commissioned in 1960 . |
| 10 | The Musical Medley held on Friday , 27th April was acclaimed a great success and requests were made for another such event to be featured in a future syllabus . |
| 11 | The Independent Living Fund has proved a great success in giving severely disabled people an opportunity to live in the community . |
| 12 | The Contemporary Art Society 's idea of shopping for art at low prices and in an informal environment , has proved a great success over the past nine years . |
| 13 | To date parishioners have been extremely generous in their giving and the scheme has proved a great success . |
| 14 | Johnston had an unhappy time at Rangers after returning from French club Metz and his subsequent move to Everton has not yet proved a great success . |
| 15 | Units are available on flexible leasing arrangements and have already proved a great success . |
| 16 | The recently electrified East Coast route has proved a great success … but could such modern technology be adapted to a railway designed more than a hundred and fifty years ago ? |