Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 2 | It would have even more credibility if the Labour party would claim and set out the funding that it would provide for the national health service , which it has expressly failed to do . |
| 3 | Jim , who lives and delivers in Kilkeel , Co Down , has only failed to make his round once — and that was in a snowstorm in 1977 when his delivery van had to be towed out of a drift . |
| 4 | An objection to liability in this case , advanced by Williams , is that the doctor who fails to treat has not done something ; he has merely failed to act , and an omission can not amount to an abetment . |
| 5 | For example , loud clothing will create the disturbing feeling among the Japanese businessmen that the foreigner has perhaps failed to take them as seriously as he might have , by failing to observe that the common practice in dress in Japan is some degree of formality . |
| 6 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 7 | Erm the Board has not failed to follow up its very good work . |
| 8 | Government policy has signally failed to do this and the result is a profession which is demoralised by its responibility to the children , to parents , and to a host of bodies and organisations , all of whom want their ‘ say ’ . |
| 9 | It is a policy that has signally failed to persuade either the financial markets or the rest of the European Community , mainly because neither Mrs Thatcher nor Mr Lawson shows any serious sign of being persuaded by it . |
| 10 | Finally , the Bail Act has signally failed to avert an explosion in the remand population , which in turn has contributed substantially to the prison numbers crisis . |
| 11 | Despite efforts to improve the country 's human rights record , including a reform package , Turkey has signally failed to prevent acts of torture in custody . |
| 12 | But a home-grown industry to supply , spin off from , create an infrastructure around the big incomers has largely failed to develop . |
| 13 | The general pattern seems to be , however , that ‘ second wave ’ change has achieved its first objective — the implementation of new structures — but has largely failed to achieve the ‘ cultural ’ sea-change : the involvement of clinicians and a new approach to consumers . |
| 14 | World Communications Year ( WCY ) began in January , The United Nations , whose brainchild the year is , has largely failed to communicate that WCY is happening at all , let alone why it is needed . |
| 15 | Paul Downton has just failed to reach a snick by Larry Gomes off Derek Pringle , and the response of Botham and Gower says it all . |
| 16 | Does this mean that the message has n't got across , that Jane Austen has somehow failed to communicate ? |
| 17 | ARGUMENTS against electoral reform look rather threadbare when looked at against the reality that our constitution has already failed to prevent ideologies of the extreme Right and Left from seizing power at both local and national levels . |
| 18 | As will be elaborated now in further contexts , it appears that the underlying reality to such difficulties was , and remains a complex contradiction which the catholic — nationalist alliance has still failed to solve . |
| 19 | I have , however , seen an advance copy of the report , which makes it clear that Libya has still failed to comply with resolution 731 . |
| 20 | The Committee has also failed to appoint new directors for each sector of the festival ( visual arts , architecture , cinema , music and theatre ) as well as a general secretary and the next president . |
| 21 | Either by accident or design , has also failed to mention several of the chief features of the new law . |
| 22 | The government has also failed to account for many hundreds who ‘ disappeared ’ in custody after an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1977 . |
| 23 | He has also failed to recognise that the Welsh people will have to pick up the bill for his spending policies . |
| 24 | The debate has also failed to question the way that union education is organised , particularly where ‘ service organisations ’ with some degree of independence from the unions and from the state are concerned . |
| 25 | China has also failed to adopt what would be the normal tactic of a Western organisation trying to challenge dominant suppliers . |
| 26 | Social work has also failed to distinguish between service features ( the assessment aspect of care management ) and the benefits ( the care package ) . |
| 27 | Not only has Simkin been unable to produce evidence of a family history of this genetic developmental disorder , but he has also failed to satisfy the essential diagnostic criteria . |
| 28 | A preliminary study using these molecular techniques has also failed to show a significant increased risk of alcoholic liver disease in individuals who are homozygous or heterozygous for both the PiZ and PiS mutant alleles . |
| 29 | The government has also failed to accept the real need for improved provision at school level in this area . |
| 30 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |