Example sentences of "and fail [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Blair said a recent Government campaign had focused on car security and failed to tackle the central problem of youth crime . |
| 2 | There were several litters to do and I was in a hurry and failed to notice the Irish farm worker 's mounting apprehension . |
| 3 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 4 | The volume of investments fell 10 per cent short of the target and failed to reach the 1988 level . |
| 5 | Roads , communications and power were government dominated monopolies , and failed to provide the necessary service . |
| 6 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
| 7 | Geraldine Ferraro , who had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 , once again suffered because of her husband 's alleged connections with the Mafia and failed to win the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat for New York . |
| 8 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 9 | Council officers in Sefton now plan a clamp-down after a survey in the borough found retailers have been flouting the law by selling tobacco to under 16s and failing to display the statutory notices . |
| 10 | Managers are sometimes accused of not knowing ‘ what kibbutz life tastes like ’ while they in turn sometimes accuse the rank and file of insufficient effort and failing to appreciate the long-term goals of the kibbutz . |
| 11 | We tend to take plants for granted , seeing them as just another aspect of the environment and failing to appreciate the vital service which they perform both for ourselves and for all other living creatures on this planet . |
| 12 | At the same time , he sees many urban social movements as defensive , insular and failing to challenge the deeper structures of society and state power . |