Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] failed to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But his mother had nothing to do except care for him , and this she had blatantly failed to do . |
| 5 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 6 | In other words , the Church recognised Constantine as successfully achieving what Jesus had signally failed to do . |
| 7 | had been given ample opportunity to respond constructively but had palpably failed to do so . |
| 8 | The payment of this sum , however , was conditional on the Legislative Assembly approving new and unpopular tax laws which it had still failed to do by May 1991 . |
| 9 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 10 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 11 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 12 | The convention insists that signatories should aim to treat their own hazardous wastes at home , as the greenest countries ( chart 8 ) have notably failed to do . |
| 13 | It is therefore necessary to address not only his theoretical and methodological but also his historical arguments — something that his critics have singularly failed to do . |