Example sentences of "[noun prp] failed [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bangor failed to break the deadlock in the 15th and 26th minutes when Paul Gray and Stephen Hill squandered two good chances . |
| 2 | But 100-metres champion Linford Christie failed to make the 5.40 pm showdown and his dream of a sprint double died . |
| 3 | The Community Health Trust in Hereford failed to win the laundry contract for the city 's St Mary 's Hospital . |
| 4 | Nizan failed to resolve the problems arising from his divided class origins . |
| 5 | For many years , courts in the United States failed to understand the Latin American approach ; the failure was so fundamental that a plaintiff in a Latin American republic had no means of serving process on a defendant in the United States . |
| 6 | In 1471 Warwick failed to turn the duchy servants against Edward IV and in 1483 Hastings ' death was followed immediately by the transfer of the royal connection to his successor in office . |
| 7 | In 1471 Warwick failed to turn the duchy servants against Edward IV and in 1483 Hastings ' death was followed immediately by the transfer of the royal connection to his successor in office . |
| 8 | Relations with Turkey had been strained since Oct. 1 , 1989 when the Turkish President , Turgut Ozal ( at the time Prime Minister ) , hinted that Turkey might reduce the flow of the Euphrates River if Syria failed to curb the attacks on Turkey by Kurdish separatists from Syrian-occupied eastern Lebanon . |
| 9 | Even a break-in ( 17 June 1972 ) at the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Building in Washington failed to give the McGovern campaign real momentum . |
| 10 | He had his head in one hand and a cigarette in the other , but even the shock that Mickey was in fact human and a reformed drop-out from the Bronx failed to dispel the magic . |
| 11 | EVEN Mick Jagger failed to reach the physical heights achieved by London Contemporary Dance Theatre 's Tom Ward . |
| 12 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 13 | But Faussett failed to appreciate the true significance of his discoveries ; in his journal , kept for the years 1757 to 1773 and later published as Inventorium Sepulchrale under the editorship of Charles Roach Smith in 1856 , the remains were attributed to the period of Roman occupation , while Smith preferred a purely British origin . |
| 14 | On July 30 Slovenia 's Defence Minister Janez Jansa failed to force the removal of Prime Minister Lojze Peterle . |
| 15 | Jerry , Chris , Johnny Dawes and Pete Gomersall failed to convince the assembly that bolting is not a threat , and the vast majority of British climbers , it seems , want the bolters firmly kept in their place . |
| 16 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 17 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 18 | Though Wooderson failed to beat the two healthy Swedes Gundar Hagg and Arne Andersson before 54,000 people , his effort lifted the spirits at a time when , without the tension of war , there was still the dreariness of rationing and shortage . |
| 19 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings , whose competence to declare war could not be impugned : thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI ; they claimed discretion in the matter ; and in 1184 , the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus , through fear that its ranks might melt away . |
| 20 | The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period . |
| 21 | The lead changed hands three times in the final seven minutes ; England scrum-half Dewi Morris failed to end the match when he missed a touch kick and when the ball was delivered back to drop-kick expert Davies , Orrell 's apparent victory was transformed into misery . |
| 22 | He had already become dependent on Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] for funds ( a loan of £10,000 in 1788 ) but the prosperity of muslins now evaporated , while Oldknow failed to achieve the same mastery of technical perfection in fine-cotton spinning . |
| 23 | If Disraeli failed to persuade the aristocracy of England to provide every county with forty St Genevieves , each with its Mr Lyle , he with others ( many of them novelists ) did much , especially in the 1840s , to draw the attention of those more privileged to the destitute houses of the poor . |
| 24 | However , his putting has also troubled him and his first objective is to make the cut , which Ballesteros failed to do the year after both his victories . |
| 25 | Lord Carrington , chair of the European Communities conference on Yugoslavia , declared himself " disappointed " and " concerned " , after separate talks with the Croatian and Serbian Presidents and the Bosnian Foreign Minister on June 25 in Strasbourg failed to restart the negotiations . |
| 26 | Despite Savimbi 's Nov. 17 commitment , UNITA failed to attend the multiparty talks on Nov. 21 , describing the meeting as a " circus " and citing fears for the security of its officials as the reason for its absence . |
| 27 | Yet the fact that no Carolingian contender was a casualty meant that Fontenoy failed to resolve the central problem of the imperial succession . |
| 28 | Auguste failed to see the hidden tensions and passions behind these simple manoeuvres ; to him it only signified that the banquet had acquired a reality . |
| 29 | Although Noir — a popular local politician — was re-elected to his seat , his challenge to Jacques Chirac 's leadership of the RPR failed to gather the momentum he had hoped . |
| 30 | He and Mackay put on 97 in 72 minutes , extending Australia 's total to 348 , which proved enough for a seven wicket victory after West Indies failed to avoid the follow-on . |