Example sentences of "have fail [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , jumpy MPs have failed to notice the real threat to the return of private railways . |
| 2 | ‘ It is a major disappointment that they have failed to take the necessary initiatives . ’ |
| 3 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 4 | For the umpteenth time they have arisen because Labour nominees have failed to attend a single meeting in the previous 12 months . |
| 5 | However , if your swing clearly does n't work because you have failed to grasp the basic fundamentals , no amount of ‘ confidence ’ will remedy the situation . |
| 6 | All referendums so far have failed to reach the required majority , although more than half the electorate voted in favour . |
| 7 | In recent years , however , increasing numbers have been killed by opportunist visitors , who have failed to respect the local custom of leaving the young mussels to live and breed . |
| 8 | Professor Camille quotes the ‘ blinded generations of scholars ’ who have failed to see the true significance of these unofficial marginal images . |
| 9 | Because of these evils , we have failed to create a just society here . |
| 10 | A number of investigators have failed to find the expected correlations between lack of support , stress and psychiatric disorder shown in Figure 7.1 . |
| 11 | They feel that the new aid has failed , or that they have failed to find the magic touch in using it . |
| 12 | Regulations , however , have failed to address the mounting risks to consumers from pollution and chemical waste , which share the water with the seafood . |
| 13 | In contrast , several controlled studies have failed to show a protective effect of somatostatin or octreotide in ERCP induced pancreatitis . |
| 14 | But arrests relating to football have failed to show a consistent decline and actually increased by more than twenty percent in the ninety one ninety two season . |
| 15 | Administration of sodium bicarbonate while reducing faecal fat excretion was not associated with a reduction in faecal bile acid losses and in vitro studies have failed to show an inhibitory effect of unhydrolysed triglycerides on ileal bile acid absorption . |
| 16 | Election candidates in Darlington have failed to meet the Green challenge , according to the man who was to have stood against them . |
| 17 | Election candidates in Darlington have failed to meet the Green challenge , according to Dr Robert Upshall , who said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three main candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 18 | In general this rule should only be used as a last resort in legal proceedings over a contract where the parties have failed to make an express provision as to the status of implied terms . |
| 19 | All these techniques have been successful in certain circumstances but most have failed to provide the total answer . |
| 20 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 21 | They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season . |
| 22 | Not uncommonly , family members will pour scorn on the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous and related Fellowships even though ( and perhaps even because ) the programme works , whereas the family member 's methods of treatment — time and time again — have failed to help the primary sufferer . |
| 23 | Some , labelled ‘ specials ’ or ‘ chickenheads ’ , damaged by the radiation , have failed to pass a basic IQ test and are forbidden emigration , others remain because of their jobs . |
| 24 | They have failed to endorse the Australian move and are refusing to contribute to the compensation fund . |
| 25 | Many weak tests , that is tests of the coefficients in equation ( 3.30 ) , have failed to reject the speculative efficiency hypothesis . |
| 26 | But since we have failed to produce a clear notion of context , what we include in context is likely to be whatever we exclude from semantics in the way of meaning relations . |
| 27 | Eight Kent families have failed to get a High Court order forcing two health authorities to hold an independent review of complaints about consultant paediatrician Heather Richardson . |
| 28 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |