Example sentences of "[pron] had been a [adj] success " in BNC.
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| 1 | JC : Kenneth Green had designed our production of Cosi fan tutte which had been a great success . |
| 2 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 3 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 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 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
| 6 | He had been a raging success in Spain but was lured back to England by his namesake manager in the belief that his international prospects would be considerably improved . |
| 7 | He had been a raging success in Spain but was lured back to England by his namesake manager in the belief that his international prospects would be considerably improved . |
| 8 | She won one victory in January 1981 when a palpable ‘ wet ’ , Norman St John-Stevas , was removed as Leader of the House ( where he had been a conspicuous success ) , while younger men like Leon Brittan and Kenneth Baker were promoted , the latter having been one of Heath 's campaign managers in 1975 . |