Example sentences of "[noun] have 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 privatisation programme has been an enormous success in recent years and not the least part of that success has been the extent to which it has widened and deepened share ownership around the country . |
| 3 | THE OPENING ceremony had been a great success . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Of all its international forays , only Hongkong Bank of Canada has been a clear success . |
| 6 | The poll tax has been an outstanding success for the right hon. Member for Wirral , West ( Mr. Hunt ) — it has got him into the Cabinet . |
| 7 | Roger Snowden , managing director of the Fine Chemicals division , said ‘ Buckhaven has been a true success story . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | From the party point of view , Law 's leadership had been a considerable success . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet , overall , parole has been a substantial success in terms of successful supervision in the community . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The pirate recording of the Berlin Lucia has been a huge success on LP and even now on CD . |
| 17 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |
| 18 | The second operation has been a complete success . ’ |
| 19 | British Coal spokesman Eddie Mardell said : ‘ The police operation has been a complete success . |
| 20 | The committee was told a similar event in Stockton had been a great success . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Generally the first year of the expanded Civic Theatre had been a great success . |
| 23 | The fiscal incentives for use of unleaded petrol have been a great success . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The exchange rate mechanism U-turn has been an immense success . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Charlottenburg had been a glorious success . |