Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 32 | Upon Karamanlis 's election as President in 1980 [ see pp. 30359-61 ] , Averoff narrowly failed to win the ND leadership , but was elected party leader in 1981 after the party 's defeat in the 1981 election [ see p. 31265 ] . |
| 33 | The main reason why I think inductivism should be abandoned is that , compared with rival and more modern approaches , it has increasingly failed to throw new and interesting light on the nature of science , a fact that led Imre Lakatos to describe the programme as a degenerating one . |
| 34 | ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’ |
| 35 | The vast library on police matters was clearly under-used and there is obviously a need for a critical ethnography of the college itself , for it takes in numbers of senior and middle police managers each year , maintains a considerable staff of academics and visiting lecturers , but has singularly failed to provide an academically stimulating ‘ university of policing ’ . |
| 36 | Research has invariably failed to recognize this and as a consequence failed to approach its task in an explicitly neutral and scientific way , i.e. to account for the nature and incidence of particular forms of adult/child interactions and their consequences . |
| 37 | Hardy , who has twice failed to win the European title , can feel somewhat fortunate to be matched with the International Boxing Federation champion , Orlando Canizales of Mexico , in Sunderland on January 24 . |
| 38 | On his last point , Labour has manifestly failed to square the circle . |
| 39 | The differences between mental illness and mental handicap are widely known , yet legislation on the subject has consistently failed to take these differences into account . |
| 40 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 41 | ‘ Our Dublin plant has consistently failed to produce the expected results , and it is this unfortunate experience which will weigh heavily against any further investment in Eire ; in much the same way as it has weighed heavily against the UK . |
| 42 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 43 | But it is fair to say that provision has comprehensively failed to grow in line with need and , in some respects , has worsened . |
| 44 | In fact , he has completely failed to take into account this very important development . ’ |
| 45 | The hon. Gentleman has completely failed to understand that he has not yet asked himself the question , ’ What is a region ? ’ |
| 46 | John Paton reported at the end of 1933 : The analysis of the reports shows that the policy of isolated cooperation with the Communist Party has completely failed to bring general support from the other organised bodies . |
| 47 | In addition , bail may also be denied if the court thinks it necessary for the defendant 's own protection , if there has been insufficient time to enable the court to obtain enough information to reach a decision , or if the defendant has previously failed to answer to bail . |
| 48 | The common law has however failed to develop any general duty to provide a reasoned decision . |
| 49 | The present Survey makes it clear that the continued circulation of such lists has again failed to stimulate the use of foreign-language publications . |
| 50 | Although she has again failed to earn her professional ticket , and with it the right to compete against the men , but she has defeated Mike Hallett in an exhibition match this year and has gained ample experience competing in Barry Hearn 's Matchroom League . |
| 51 | But for today commuter chaos has again failed to materialise . |
| 52 | The Marquis of Blandford has again failed to appear in court on four charges of dodging taxi fares . |
| 53 | Some say that the church has significantly failed to provide a safe ‘ family ’ , and the result has been that thousands of needy people have drifted through and away to the false substitutes of the world . |
| 54 | ‘ Horowitz has never failed to take out a target . ’ |
| 55 | I can not bear this obscene , grubbing curiosity about the affairs of others , it has never failed to repel me . |
| 56 | But when all is said and done , the name of the novel game is entertainment , and in that Richard Allen has never failed to deliver . |
| 57 | One of the issues that has inexplicably failed to get even a whisper of an airing in the campaign wars of words is whether a graphical interface is the preferred environment for a large proportion of desktop users . |
| 58 | She asked , ‘ What was that ? ’ as if she 'd just failed to catch some remark that Luke had made . |
| 59 | She must have changed over nearly forty years ; he 'd simply failed to notice . |
| 60 | Once again the tenuous thought that she 'd previously failed to grasp hovered like a wraith on the verge of her consciousness . |