Example sentences of "they fail [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 2 | They failed to reflect the political spectrum in its entirety and they tended to exclude or denigrate all those who strayed outside the centre of the political stage . |
| 3 | They failed to catch the popular imagination in the way the inhabitants of Coronation Street , Albert Square and Ramsay Street have done . |
| 4 | Although the Radburn layouts were safer than earlier designs , they failed to solve the triangular conflict between safety , environmental attractiveness and access . |
| 5 | They were halted by a hail of arrows from the English , they failed to break the English positions and each advancing wave of cavalry bore down on those who had gone before , leading to utter confusion and heavy losses . |
| 6 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 7 | One sympathized , but how they failed to recognize the extraordinary quality of the work will always be beyond me . |
| 8 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |
| 9 | Most importantly , they fail to acknowledge the genuine lessons of Marx 's work , as , for example , reflected in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ) , in which the significance of artefacts is seen to consist in their simultaneous operation in both the material and cognitive worlds , thereby exposing the artificiality of a dichotomous approach . |
| 10 | Occasionally the police drop by to complain about the noise , but they do so only after midnight , and they fail to notice the incessant smell of dope , sharp as burning leaves . |
| 11 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 12 | What makes the commentators on man-godhood and related themes misleading , why they fail to evoke the real thing , is that they suggest an object which is stable and personal ( as opposed to volatile and transpersonal ) . |
| 13 | They fail to benefit the acquiring bank and destroy some of its value . |
| 14 | If they fail to meet the playing average , they are told to ‘ go away and practise ’ for the next four weeks and are unable to enter any tournaments . |