Example sentences of "have a [adj] success " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treatment has a low success rate . |
| 2 | A team has a high success rate , ie more often than not it achieves what it sets out to do . |
| 3 | This well established course has a high success rate . |
| 4 | In Northampton , a centre for partially-excluded pupils has a high success rate . |
| 5 | A free-speech amendment to a bill of rights has had a certain success that might be emulated . |
| 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 | Caterham has already had a significant success in the US when it was invited to compete in the Sports Cars of America 's 24-hour race in Ohio , and won . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I remember after we had had a big success at Covent Garden with Elektra he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Birgit , for the first time in my career I get good notices here in London ! ’ |
| 10 | Attempts to improve women 's opportunities and pay within the labour market can therefore only have a limited success as long as women within the family continue to undertake most of the work of caring . |
| 11 | This argument was having a little success around the table , when the President of the Society , W. M. Smart , squirmed in the Chair , and exclaimed in an anguished voice : ‘ Then will somebody propose that this paper be rejected irrespective of its contents ? ’ |
| 12 | To quote from Cole again : They had a short-lived success . |
| 13 | In 1953 he published The Maestro , the first of a series of six little books of cartoons on musical themes which had a worldwide success . |
| 14 | Director Malcolm Sutherland , who had a major success with his adaptation of The Wasp Factory is plainly drawn to the wayward or the warped , but this play promises more than it delivers . |
| 15 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 16 | Because of the schools emphasis on vocational courses such as computing and engineering , school leavers have a good success rate in getting jobs . |
| 17 | Given soft water even Angelfish have a high success rate , and , if brought up in a planted tank and allowed to pair naturally , will often raise their broods . |