Example sentences of "a great success " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 2 | ‘ It will only really be meaningful and historic if he is a great success , ’ Davis said soon after firing the existing head coach Mike Shanahan . |
| 3 | And I think it will be a great success . |
| 4 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 5 | THE OPENING ceremony had been a great success . |
| 6 | His landscaping at Quernmore Park near Lancaster had been a great success , as was his probable design for Casterton Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale , which looks uncommonly like Leck . |
| 7 | The first-ever Chelsea Show garden venture for BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine and sponsor Fuji film was a real challenge that proved to be a great success ! |
| 8 | In 1979 we held the United Kingdom 's first showbiz-style election rally for Mrs Thatcher , and it was a great success . |
| 9 | Furtwängler was very sullen but musicians like to joke and tell stories and the evening was a great success . |
| 10 | He delivered fifty lectures in the course of three months but , as we have noted , was not a great success . |
| 11 | My companions complained of the lack of hands-on , push-button displays , a prerequisite for the young these days , but they enjoyed the state banquet and the rooms , and were sure the show would be a great success with tourists . |
| 12 | But the result , the Thomas Neal Centre , sparkles and ought to be a great success ; as a development it works well . |
| 13 | Combine that with the world 's greatest sporting occasion and we have the ability to be a great success . ’ |
| 14 | The Independent Living Fund has proved a great success in giving severely disabled people an opportunity to live in the community . |
| 15 | The Inquirer proved a great success . |
| 16 | The opera was a great success , although on the first evening several very distressing incidents took place . |
| 17 | Once again the meeting was a great success ; the Emperor had long conversations with the Prince Consort , Lord Palmerston and the Foreign Secretary , Lord Clarendon , while the Empress devoted herself to the Queen and the royal children . |
| 18 | At a personal level the visit had obviously been a great success , but Napoleon III came away without any specific extension of the Entente and he left the British Ministers unconvinced of his desire for peace and stability in Europe . |
| 19 | ( One time we did scrape the black paint off the windows at the back and we served tea and pastries in the afternoon and had no music , but that was n't a great success with us . |
| 20 | ‘ Last year we went into the race blind , but it was a great success . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The party was not a great success . |
| 23 | In lighter tone the Mad Hatters Tea Party was a great success , raising £88.86 for the national RBLWS birthday scheme . |
| 24 | And as in previous years the evening was a great success . |
| 25 | THE Brownies ' Hallowe'en party had been a great success Carol had enjoyed every minute of it . |
| 26 | The show , of course , was a great success . |
| 27 | A Congregational Picnic was held in Killicomaine on the evening of Thursday 26 June 1952 and proved a great success . |
| 28 | And yet , when an event for all ages is organised , it is often a great success . |
| 29 | The three-day thrash in Philadelphia , which coincided with an exhibition of products called Biotech ‘ 83 , was not a great success , and the proceedings left a bad taste in several hundred mouths . |
| 30 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |