Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been a [adj] success " in BNC.
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| 1 | I very much agree with my hon. Friend that local management of schools has been a great success . |
| 2 | THE OPENING ceremony had been a great success . |
| 3 | And a handful of critics is beginning to wonder whether Ireland has not concentrated a little too hard on attracting inward investors at the expense of building a strong home-grown computer and electronics industry : after all , the policy of rallying all centres of higher education to turn out highly-skilled hardware and software engineers has been a great success , but should n't more of those people be working for Irish companies ? |
| 4 | Of all its international forays , only Hongkong Bank of Canada has been a clear success . |
| 5 | Roger Snowden , managing director of the Fine Chemicals division , said ‘ Buckhaven has been a true success story . |
| 6 | With a trading profit for C&P last year of £473 million on sales of £4.2 billion [ 9 per cent up on 1986 ] , there can now be no doubt that the move has been a great success and that the thinking behind it was sound . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yvonne spirited me back to her office and we held a quick post-mortem , agreeing the evening had been a roaring success and discussing ways to improve our performance . |
| 9 | Kate said the evening had been a great success : it received plenty of local press coverage , the Rossendale Group increased its membership , and the Mayor agreed to donate £100 to Amnesty . |
| 10 | From the party point of view , Law 's leadership had been a considerable success . |
| 11 | Whenever they gather in private , he is berated for the economic mess in which their political fortunes are floundering , although in public , as hon. Members know only too well , the fiction is resolutely maintained that Conservative economic policy has been a continuing success . |
| 12 | Yet , overall , parole has been a substantial success in terms of successful supervision in the community . |
| 13 | The small orchestra was ‘ feeble ’ , and Mozart wrote sadly to his wife that the concert had been a great success from the point of view of honour and glory , but a complete financial flop . |
| 14 | The pirate recording of the Berlin Lucia has been a huge success on LP and even now on CD . |
| 15 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |
| 16 | The second operation has been a complete success . ’ |
| 17 | British Coal spokesman Eddie Mardell said : ‘ The police operation has been a complete success . |
| 18 | The committee was told a similar event in Stockton had been a great success . |
| 19 | Scotland coach Allan Hosie said the Pacific tour had been a great success considering eight Scots were on the British Lions tour and other players were not able to make the trip . |
| 20 | Generally the first year of the expanded Civic Theatre had been a great success . |
| 21 | The fiscal incentives for use of unleaded petrol have been a great success . |
| 22 | French-style café-bars have been a runaway success over here because they address a market which had previously been actively excluded by the ‘ pub tradition ’ — namely women . |
| 23 | Held at the Stadium Youth and Community Centre in the Shankill , the crime-busting project has been a major success to date — with eight out of 11 young people getting jobs . |
| 24 | HyperCard has been a huge success , both because it combines power and ease-of-use so well and because Apple have given the software away bundled with every Macintosh sold since 1987 . |
| 25 | A DIGITAL counting system to prevent overcrowding at Perry 's Brasserie in Beaumont Street , Darlington has been a great success , staff said yesterday The scheme was introduced last month after environmental health inspectors made a surprise visit and found about 930 people inside the capacity is 725 . |
| 26 | Since then single malt has been a great success , but Mr Sandy feels that the Treasury is exploiting it : ‘ Of course we were glad that the Chancellor decided not to increase excise on whisky , but last week 's Budget has not made things right . |
| 27 | Charlottenburg had been a glorious success . |
| 28 | Ward , 53 , had maintained throughout that the money had been a legitimate success fee for his vital role in the bitterly-fought takeover bid . |
| 29 | Our opener this year has been a runaway success in the States where the box office success of this relatively low budget film has taken everyone by surprise . |
| 30 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |