Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | Self-help in these circumstances is an unqualified virtue , but do ask the library staff to help if you 've repeatedly failed to find the text you 're looking for . |
| 3 | If executives really understand business and the motivational challenge of making profit , the last thing they will want to do is put themselves out to grass , write papers for learned journals and theorize on aspects of business they 've previously failed to put into practice . |
| 4 | The three remaining elders — Chen Yun , Wang Zhen and Song Renqiong , each of whom is believed to be in poor health — have conspicuously failed to put their name to a cause that , according to their past views , could lead to a ‘ capitalist restoration ’ . |
| 5 | He maintains ( 1980a , p. 163 ) that far greater attention should be paid to non-local influences , asserting that ‘ local political studies have fundamentally failed to explain the observed regularity of urban policy change across many decentralized authorities ’ . |
| 6 | While use of mortality as the sole criterion of therapeutic efficacy in intensive care units is open to debate , these studies have all failed to show any cost benefit ; in one , selective decontamination of the gut doubled the total cost of antimicrobial drugs . |
| 7 | Planning-programming-budgeting systems , public expenditure surveys , programme analysis and review , the rationalization of budgetary choice and other planning devices have all failed to displace established bureaucratic procedures and elites . |
| 8 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 9 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 10 | The social sciences studied during training have entirely failed to provide teachers with a new working vocabulary . |
| 11 | Er , er my understanding to , to er about five minutes ago was that you were saying we have not failed to perform our legal obligations under clause nine , because clause nine er is either wholly or to be extent that it relates to the underwriting which we disapprove partially invalid out of being part of the erm , the anti competitive of erm the argument you 're pursuing . |
| 12 | Unless you have agreed that we may disclose information about your personal affairs ( or we are required by law to do so ) , such information will remain confidential to us provided you have not failed to repay us any money properly demanded from you ( see next bullet point b ) . |
| 13 | Here in Germany also , Panofsky 's English writings have not failed to have an effect . |
| 14 | The supporters have not failed to build on the promise shown last season ! |
| 15 | Such structures and networks , however , have generally failed to offset the inherent fragmentation of the post-1986 local government system or the inbuilt suspicions which have accompanied recent reorganizations . |
| 16 | Ministers have generally failed to grasp the implications of Mrs Thatcher 's conversion to the cause of the environment . |
| 17 | Many studies have examined the diagnostic potential of immunohistochemistry , but they have generally failed to show the clear definitions found with prostate specific antigen or thyroglobulin . |
| 18 | While many new ideas have been promoted for budgetary reform it remains the case that they have generally failed to gain general acceptance . |
| 19 | On this the last word must be Solzhenitsyn 's : ‘ There are many who are aware that communism is an evil and menace to the world , but who have nevertheless failed to grasp its implacable nature … |
| 20 | Though the sound of solo voice with choral accompaniment can be very beautiful , composers have largely failed to exploit this resource , possibly because they are well aware that a good solo voice may not always be available . |
| 21 | While foreigners on Wall Street have largely failed to break into the domestic-equity business , the gaijin houses on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) have won Japanese institutional business at the expense of the big four Japanese securities houses , mostly because the foreigners offer better research . |
| 22 | For the benefit of those who have somehow failed to read the widespread newspaper accounts ? ’ |
| 23 | While Smart 's contemporaries failed to appreciate the sublimity of his Song to David , later critics have signally failed to agree on its construction and Smart 's own note of explanation does not quite match the case . |
| 24 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |
| 25 | The Opposition have totally failed to grasp the banding concept . |
| 26 | They have made interesting and occasionally convincing criticisms , but they have totally failed to suggest an alternative future for this country . |
| 27 | Smaller wage rises would make it possible to have lower inflation at a higher level of output — a combination that clever manipulations of macroeconomic policy ( interest rates , exchange rates and budget deficits ) have always failed to achieve . |
| 28 | I think that er , I 'll be very brief because a lot of it 's already been said , and you 've already , Mr Chairman picked up Mr on his dodgy figures , erm , with his five million , erm , because what that was about , just under three million was actually fulfilling our election pledges , which is something we have noticeably failed to see from this Conservative government . |
| 29 | The Faculty Office or the Schools Liaison Office will be pleased to advise on this and also upon an appropriate choice of sixth year subjects , particularly where students have marginally failed to meet the entry requirements at the first sitting of Highers . |
| 30 | The Social Democratic Party and the Clean Government Party , Japan 's two biggest opposition parties , have both failed to use the LDP 's disarray to improve their own poll ratings . |