Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] success " in BNC.
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| 1 | A free-speech amendment to a bill of rights has had a certain success that might be emulated . |
| 2 | The old G201 grade , which everyone thought had had its day , has become a clear success ! |
| 3 | This new exchange venture has proved a tremendous success , not only improving linguistic skills and cultural awareness , but also in forming friendships which will last way beyond the second leg of the exchange , due to take place in March . |
| 4 | The Independent Living Fund has proved a great success in giving severely disabled people an opportunity to live in the community . |
| 5 | The Contemporary Art Society 's idea of shopping for art at low prices and in an informal environment , has proved a great success over the past nine years . |
| 6 | To date parishioners have been extremely generous in their giving and the scheme has proved a great success . |
| 7 | The recently electrified East Coast route has proved a great success … but could such modern technology be adapted to a railway designed more than a hundred and fifty years ago ? |
| 8 | Debut in the victory over France in Lyons and has proved a real success in both tight and loose . |
| 9 | THE heatwave has proved a sizzling success for ice cream manufacturer Pendleton 's . |
| 10 | School spokeswoman Mary Thomas said : ‘ This is the first time we have staged My Fair Lady and it has proved a resounding success . |
| 11 | In Namibia 's vast Etosha Game Par , WWF has scored a major success with the creation of a new , highly trained anti-poaching unit , which has dramatically reduced the numbers of animals lost . |
| 12 | On this test , Thatcherism has achieved a partial success . |
| 13 | but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days . |
| 14 | Having just lost out to Alan Alda in 1966 for the forthcoming Broadway comedy The Apple Tree , directed by Mike Nichols , but nonetheless now confirmed as a top off-Broadway character actor , Dustin landed the lead in Livings ' Eh ? , which had had a great success at the Aldwych Theatre , London , in Peter Hall 's Royal Shakespeare Company production exactly two years previously . |
| 15 | JC : Eric Crozier had had a great success producing The Bartered Bride . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I remember after we had had a big success at Covent Garden with Elektra he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Birgit , for the first time in my career I get good notices here in London ! ’ |
| 17 | The year 1887 was a good one for Hardy : he and Emma paid a long-awaited visit to Italy which left him ‘ much illuminated ’ , and returned to find that The Woodlanders , with its intensely magical evocation of ‘ one of those sequestered spots outside the gates of the world ’ , had become a popular success . |
| 18 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |