Example sentences of "[adv] failed [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke on the evils of race and colour prejudice and he rarely failed to mention the issue of slavery . |
| 2 | However , it entirely failed to consider the far more important question of whether the definition should be extended for the crimes of obtaining sexual intercourse by threats or false pretences . |
| 3 | Yet they obviously failed to grasp the political and administrative realities within which state medicine was increasingly caught in the 1870s and 1880s . |
| 4 | However , in second-half Wanderers raised their game and at the end of the day they just failed to get a point . |
| 5 | In the end there was long and controversial litigation , which nevertheless failed to establish the rights that Kagan sought . |
| 6 | Green 's memorandum reflected the WEA 's dissatisfaction with its original 1932 representation on the RAC in that although the District was recognised by the Board of Education as the most important providing body for Chapter III courses in the region , it had less than 25% of the committee 's membership which thus failed to recognise the WEA 's national or regional status . |
| 7 | AN autopsy yesterday failed to solve the mystery MI6 spy Ian Spiro 's death . |
| 8 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 9 | NEWCASTLE 'S Anglo-Italian Cup hopes yesterday failed to survive a storm of superior finishing by Bari . |
| 10 | Despite Boeing 's considerable investment of $10 million dollars to purchase 10 000 ( 417 days ) worth of wind tunnel time in the 1960s , they still failed to develop the optimal design , as subsequent improvements and refinements to the B747 are testimony . |
| 11 | He also failed to mobilize a heavy turnout amongst black voters , many of whom criticised him for ignoring them in his efforts to woo the white rural electorate . |
| 12 | And he also failed to hold a Gary Lineker shot which produced Spurs ' third goal . |
| 13 | O'Neill also failed to appreciate the extent of Protestant misgivings , preferring instead to see Paisley and his supporters as a small and unrepresentative rabble . |
| 14 | She also failed to notice the board had hired a teacher with convictions for exposing himself to schoolgirls , or ask why a probationary principal was still in place despite pleading guilty to a $21,000 welfare scam . |
| 15 | The coup also failed to win the support of the opposition Comoros Democratic Front . |
| 16 | At school he did ‘ extraordinarily badly ’ by his own admission and he also failed to obtain a degree in agriculture at Cambridge University , but with his sights firmly fixed on a career in the family business , such academic shortcomings represented no real handicap . |
| 17 | It was a mixed night for the Liberal Democrats , who also failed to make a significant breakthrough . |
| 18 | The League also failed to understand the humiliation of the defeat and dismemberment inflicted on Germany and failed spectacularly in its appreciation of the unworkable arrangements made around Danzig . |
| 19 | Although the concessions met the demands made at the start of an unprecedented national protest campaign on June 10 , they now failed to satisfy the opposition , who responded by continuing to call for Ratsiraka 's resignation . |
| 20 | His original aim was to study medicine but he narrowly failed to reach the required A-level grades . |
| 21 | It narrowly failed to win an overall majority in the elections and the caretaker government appointed by Acting President Shehabuddin Ahmed in December 1990 remained in place as of early March 1991 . |
| 22 | But , in the broader terms of next Saturday 's tour opener at the Arms Park , it surely failed to convince a single soul that Cardiff will be anything other than cannon-fodder for the All Blacks . |
| 23 | In the Punjab in India , too , the birth rate went up after spermicides were introduced because people abandoned their traditional forms of birth control and then failed to use the unpleasant pessaries . |
| 24 | However the Tatarstan authorities then failed to grant the necessary licences . |
| 25 | Yet when the BBC did their big programme two or three years ago ( commissioned by Michael Grade ) about women in the media , although they had phoned up and , as it were , picked our brains about women and Channel 4 , they quite failed to honour the fact what Channel 4 had done . |
| 26 | The inquiry found he twice failed to signal a false start . |
| 27 | The inquiry found he twice failed to signal a false start . |
| 28 | Senior Jockey Club stewards will today decide whether to summon 57-year-old part-timer Ken Evans before a disciplinary committee after the inquiry found he twice failed to signal a false start . |
| 29 | The engineers sometimes failed to appreciate the full significance of some of the things they established during their detailed examination of aircraft wreckage . |
| 30 | Prowling on through the foul open area , wrapped in such pleasant fantasies , I almost failed to see the furtive movement on the edge of my vision . |