Example sentences of "[verb] failed [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal that all reference to the Communist Party should be deleted failed to secure the required two-thirds majority endorsement , albeit winning 1,067 votes in favour compared with 906 against . |
| 2 | Indeed the European parliamentary resolution is specific on that point and I believe the boundary commission has failed to take the opportunity to exercise that requirement . |
| 3 | Once again , despite the smoke-screen , the hon. Gentleman has failed to answer the question to which everyone in Scotland wants an answer . |
| 4 | Although the case has been covered in the Mexican press , the National Commission for Human Rights — a department of the Mexican Government — has failed to name the two people and have declined to issue further information . |
| 5 | As Mr Reed 's release seemed imminent , an unsigned statement on Tehran radio commenting on events since last week 's release , said ‘ the United States has failed to reciprocate the goodwill shown by Polehill 's captors ; in view of Washington 's position , resolving the hostage crisis is much slower than previously expected ’ . |
| 6 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 7 | Sadly , it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board . |
| 8 | ‘ The Labour Party has failed to grasp the nettle in Monklands and this is shown by the fact that the only real criticism in its inquiry report was directed at us , the local paper . ’ |
| 9 | Even a decision to paint one of them a garish blue has failed to ameliorate the effect . |
| 10 | PI has failed to create the skeleton package module ( at issue 00.00Z ) . |
| 11 | CONTROVERSY surrounding Wirral 's oldest grammar school has failed to mar the excellence of its achievements , a report confirms . |
| 12 | It is also that it has failed to regain the support of the working class — old and new — that it lost in 1979 . |
| 13 | A stabilisation package earlier this month , which cut the discount rate to 3.75 per cent , has failed to halt the market slide . |
| 14 | ‘ It has failed to debate the key question of who should pay for the clean-up of contaminated drinking water . ’ |
| 15 | Investment in education promotes economic growth but Britain has failed to use the opportunities offered by oil to prepare its economy for the challenges it now has to meet . |
| 16 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |
| 17 | G. H. Bantock and David Holbrook , who are very concerned about exploitation by commercial culture of working-class pupils , have argued that the watered-down grammar school curriculum has failed to affect the lives of the great majority . |
| 18 | In Britain , the equivalent is Prestel which , though stocked with stacks of useful information ( though no Madame Whiplashes ) , has failed to set the world alight . |
| 19 | If the publisher has failed to exploit the song in any manner , within a given period of time , the songwriter is able to have all rights in the songs returned . |
| 20 | In many ways it has failed to realise the changes in British society and has had problems in providing a service for ethnic minorities . |
| 21 | Whether the UK 's proposal will be accepted is in some doubt , not least because it has failed to engender the support of other Member States . |
| 22 | The Scottish Office commissioned John Grimshaw 's report on long-distance cycle routes as long ago as 1983 , but has failed to implement the proposals in it . |
| 23 | Many a blindfolded tasting panel has failed to spot the difference between the apple grown without pesticides and that which has . |
| 24 | The importance of acceptance is that once it has taken place , the buyer can no longer reject the goods , claim that the seller has failed to perform the contract , and refuse to pay the price . |
| 25 | Likewise , Jean Monod 's inertial approach , for all its Gallic elegance , has failed to displace the old non-inertial guidance system of Handel and Barr — now quite forgotten . |
| 26 | The Darlington 's figures are the latest from a Northern building society which show that the slump in the housing market suffered in other regions has failed to have the same feared effect in the North-East . |
| 27 | According to article 3 of the Swiss civil code , ‘ no person can plead bona fides in any case where he has failed to exercise the degree of care required by the circumstances ’ . |
| 28 | With a few obvious exceptions — most notably the highly successful chemical and pharmaceutical industries , which profit from Britain 's strength in laboratory science — industry has failed to attract the country 's top talent , which has preferred the City , the professions and academe . |
| 29 | Although Mr Kinnock has modernised Labour and ditched many of its vote-losing socialist policies , he has failed to convince the country to put its trust in him despite the country suffering the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 30 | The company has failed to convince the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) that the embrittlement of the steel reactor vessel was not serious enough to prevent the station reopening . |