Example sentences of "which failed [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
| 2 | There were two appeals against the verdict , which failed to reverse the decision and in the early winter of 1961 a court receiver auctioned the assets of Highlander . |
| 3 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 4 | Football : Advertisement for small beer : Joe Lovejoy reports on a game which failed to quench the purists ' thirsts |
| 5 | The Barcelona rising , which failed to enlist the vital support of the CNT , was quickly suppressed , but that in Asturias lasted a fortnight until finally crushed , with considerable blood-shed , by Spanish and Moorish troops commanded by General Francisco Franco . |
| 6 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 7 | THE DEATH OF THE Lotus Elan was the result of poor sales which failed to recoup the massive investment made in the car , according to former GM Europe boss Bob Eaton . |
| 8 | By deepening the partisan rift , the Thomas affair also cast its shadow over the Senate 's attempt to override the President , which failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority by two votes on Oct. 16 . |
| 9 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 10 | In the Palaeozoic rocks there were other stalked filter-feeding echinoderms , which failed to survive the crisis at the end of the Permian , weathered by the crinoids . |
| 11 | It was assumed that spoken forms which failed to observe the rules of morphology and syntax considered appropriate to written forms were ‘ incorrect ’ and ‘ ungrammatical ’ . |
| 12 | Lance Owen of Kingston took care of the service ( £174.25 ) and secured the exhaust , but its only attempt to cure the creak was to adjust the power steering belt , which failed to solve the problem . |