Sentence examples for were only successful from inspiring English sources

The Harry Potter films were only successful because they could capitalise on an existing series of beloved books.

However, it being Christmas time, my repeated attempts to rearrange the appointment by telephone were only successful on 28 December.

Subsidies in aid of the cost of living were only successful in keeping a few bare essentials within the range of the poorest peoples' resources.

Earlier syntheses of formamides from the catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 in the presence of amines were only successful for the preparation of dialkylformamides.

But in a result they perhaps should have seen coming, the pair were only successful in identifying characteristics of the volunteers at a rate of one in five, an outcome "entirely consistent with the operation of chance alone," according to Professor Chris French, of the university's Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit and organiser of the study.

But we were only successful after instructing Alexa to "order Batman".

But that's only successful when she's really on top.

"We are only successful if our patients are engaged and using the site," Mr. Heywood said.

"Other bands say we're only successful because we're girls, or because we have good management," she shrugs.

CCS schemes are only successful if the CO2 remains successfully sequestered underground for many hundreds of years.

Composting these biowastes was only successful when using a bulking agent or if sufficient porosity was supported.