Example sentences of "have some success " in BNC.

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1 Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) .
2 Nevertheless , as in many other situations the analyst , himself a skilled performer , has some success in practice .
3 With deposits of limited size variations the technique has some success but better discrimination is achieved where there are large size differences .
4 A different sort of exhibition which has had some success in attracting attention , and thus newspaper coverage , is the prize competition .
5 This approach to amnesia has had some success .
6 If , after that , you ca n't get it to live amicably in a domestic situation , there is not much hope left , although Graham stressed he has had some success with temperament improvements by castrating the males .
7 Surveys suggest that the government has had some success .
8 In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) .
9 Already they have had some success with soil around a leaking petrol tank at LLNL , and Matthews ' group thinks that TCE-contaminated soil should be a practical target .
10 Although Zimbabwe has had some success in redressing racial inequalities , there have been limits on how far social inequalities have been checked .
11 The zones have thus had some success in preventing the relocation or closure of preexisting companies .
12 manufactures have had some success in making less harmful products , but these have not always been popular with users
13 I 've had some success with Paul Reed Smith guitars , which you can virtually take out of the box , tune them up and they 're ready to go . ’
14 Using this model Hackman and Oldham claim to have had some success in redesigning jobs to give the outcomes they predict .
15 Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote .
16 Again using Stitch World I have had some success with patterns in tuck stitch , with certain needles out of work .
17 This method has had some success in speech recognition and its application to script recognition is described by Tappert ( 1982 ; see also Wong and Fallside , 1985 ) .
18 These moves have had some success and adult education is probably now more open , more flexible and more responsive to the needs of the whole community than it was then .
19 It is also very important for you to reward yourself when you have had some success .
20 It had been hoped that the removal of exchange rate fluctuations between EC currencies would constitute the first stage toward monetary union , but the widespread acceptance of floating has made this aim more difficult to achieve , although the European Monetary System has had some success in this respect .
21 We are sure you have tried to lose weight before , and have had some success and some failures .
22 ‘ We 've had some success already — turned away more than a dozen chaps , we did , once they understood what we were on about .
23 Although the statistical theory of Gibbs and de Marzio has had some success for polystyrene in predicting the variation of T2 with molecular weight , the variation of specific heat with temperature , it has met with criticism .
24 The Bristol team , working under the umbrella of the Advanced Manufacturing and Automation Research Centre ( AMARC ) , one of the University Research Centres , has already had some success with its robotic ear surgeon .
25 On the other hand , nationalist movements within industrial countries have had some success when they have been able to establish strong party organizations , as in the case of the Scottish National Party or the Parti Quebecois , or more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia .
26 Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know .
27 The propaganda may have had some success ; it was , nevertheless , necessary .
28 Erm we have had some success in this year and we have , hope that we will have similar success in the future .
29 While the local council has had some success in attracting new industries to the urban areas of Peterlee and Seaham , many of the former mining villages have failed to cope with the loss of their pits .
30 So far the Project has had some successes as well as failures , but it is a promising development and extends the scope of co-operation and coordination into the crucial library/faculty cooperation area .
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