Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] successful [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the 1860s Gaskell , Deacon & Co. was among the largest and most successful chemical works in Widnes , owing to Gaskell 's commercial management and Deacon 's method of recovering chlorine for bleaching-powder manufacture .
2 In addition to the established and highly successful Master 's Degree Course in Highway Engineering for Developing Countries , the School of Civil Engineering is now setting up a parallel Masters ' Course in Traffic Engineering for Developing Countries .
3 Shifting agriculture is not in itself environmentally harmful , as is evidenced by the long and generally successful history that this type of agriculture has enjoyed in tropical regions .
4 WordPerfect Corp , one of the biggest and most successful computer companies still privately held , will lose its virginity early this year when it files to go public on the Big Board of the New York Exchange , US PC Week reports .
5 So let's really all commit ourselves to the national raffle and make it the biggest and most successful raffle Save The Children has ever had .
6 A communiqué issued at the end of the talks stressed that " the establishment of a regional security system with participation of the region 's states is the best and most successful method to provide security and stability to the region 's states and people " .
7 The third and most successful revolt began in 404 and gave Egypt independence till the 340s ( there was a brief final revolt in the 330s ) .
8 The same hospital called me in early for a quick and very successful cataract operation ( lens implant ) , seemingly in order to treat as many patients as possible before the go-slow came into effect .
9 The artist has created a marvellous pattern out of the limbs of beasts and men superposed in parallel planes stepped back to the ground and punctuated by the frontal heads of the near oxen ; a sophisticated and brilliantly successful design .
10 At Friends of the Earth , Jonathan Porritt similarly fought a long and largely successful battle to demonstrate that efficiency and negotiation with the opposition do n't have to mean sell-out .
11 And yoga , they argue , can contribute to a healthy and more successful life .
12 Frame had since 1961 been a dynamic and highly successful liaison officer , and could reasonably have been expected to serve the BDDA for several more years .
13 Mr Major replied : ‘ I would be delighted to see a stronger and more successful Merchant Navy .
14 Space limitations mean one can only select a little from what was a varied and highly successful programme , so I will concentrate on two areas .
15 The regiment traces its history back to the Siege of Carroburg in 1865 , when it mounted a valiant and wholly successful defence of the walls in the face of a huge army led by the Count of Middenland .
16 The first third of the book ( three chapters ) is an ambitious and generally successful attempt to explain , at a level appropriate to the educated nonscientist , how computational science works , specifically how the continuum ( or quantum mechanical ) equations that describe physical reality can be accurately approximated by discrete computational techniques such as finite difference , finite element , Monte Carlo or N-body particle models .
17 An able and highly successful mining engineer , he had also show outstanding ability and humanity in organizing relief for war-stricken Europe in 1919 .
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