Example sentences of "[verb] signally failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In other words , the Church recognised Constantine as successfully achieving what Jesus had signally failed to do . |
| 6 | Unlike his predecessor , Avitus was a powerful bishop who managed to harness the local forces which Cautinus had signally failed to dominate . |
| 7 | By the time of the next possible resolution of the problem at the end of 1921 , coalition had signally failed to provide Unionists with what they had hoped for , and Lloyd George had become an electoral albatross rather than an asset . |
| 8 | Assuming that the home-made EB3 had signally failed to cut any jazz-rock mustard , which direction , instrument-wise , had Neil taken after that ? |
| 9 | 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 . |