Example sentences of "had some success " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has , however , had some successes after one year in office : she has reconciled warring groups of artists , set up a film theatre , found a home for the city 's picture-lending library , and appointed a theatre director . |
| 2 | Carter 's intentions were , in many ways , laudable and he had some successes , notably in bringing an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in 1978 . |
| 3 | One of these was Francis Newton Souza , who arrived in Britain from India in 1949 and had some success , nationally and internationally , in the Fifties and early Sixties . |
| 4 | Bowling resembles a number of older artists in the exhibition in that he came to England ( from Guyana , in his case ) to be an artist , had some success , then moved to and fro between London and New York when his public career went downhill in the Sixties . |
| 5 | Canadian scientists introduced large numbers of lacewing eggs into orchards and had some success in controlling apple aphids . |
| 6 | ‘ We had some success , one winter , in Rome and that is all , ’ she said . |
| 7 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 8 | Two trends in cattle stealing during the late nineteenth century showed that government regulations had some success . |
| 9 | He had some success , but many of his patients died , probably as a result of infections consequent upon the introduction of non-sterile fluids into the circulation . |
| 10 | The godly had some success in severing their connection with the church by banishing them from the churchyard , but the old festal calendar survived and the activities associated with it — mumming at New Year , dancing at Candlemas , football and other games at Shrovetide , and maypole dancing on Mayday — were relocated in and around the village ale-house . |
| 11 | Government attempts to relocate small industries in rural areas through the COSIRA scheme had some success . |
| 12 | Unionists had some success against the coupon and even more in places where no coupons were allocated , as in Cardiff and in Manchester . |
| 13 | He had some success with Van Mook but none with Admiral Helfrich , commander of their forces in the East . |
| 14 | His Congo campaign achieved its preliminary aim in 1908 when the Free State was handed over to Belgium , and thereafter had some success in pressing the latter to adopt specific reforms , despite the reluctance of the British and French governments to antagonize Belgium , on whose friendship their European policies depended . |
| 15 | A non-confrontational policy designed to persuade drug cartel leaders to surrender in exchange for the banning of their extradition to stand trial in the USA had some success in Colombia [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37957-58 ; 38345 ] . |
| 16 | I had some success in Galway City . |
| 17 | This may suggest that the Statute of Labourers , passed in 1351 to curb wage demantis , had some success for a number of years . |