Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
| 2 | He again failed to acknowledge the part that he could play in reducing the odds which are stacked against women and shackle them in the way that he described . |
| 3 | For a time the company failed to acknowledge the problem until the numbers began to be serious , at which time the management decided to ‘ regroup , become leaner , and work differently . ’ |
| 4 | He failed to realize the difference and his blank expression made her smile . |
| 5 | What interests her , apparently , is not the remark itself , but ‘ the degree to which the piece of recall ’ — her piece of recall , presumably — ‘ failed to affect the novel in any way ’ . |
| 6 | Application of human recombinant bFGF ( 1–100 µg/kg/hour subcutaneously ) failed to affect the formation of acute gastric lesions induced by 100% ethanol and acidified aspirin but reduced the stress induced by gastric lesions . |
| 7 | It came after Benn failed to attend a press conference at London 's Bloomsbury Crest Hotel to publicise his WBC super-middlewight title defence against Nicky Piper at Alexandra Palace on Saturday . |
| 8 | Mrs Allsopp failed to attend a meeting last night of the Parish Council , of which she 's chairman . |
| 9 | If anyone failed to attend the muster , heavy fines and punishments could be imposed . |
| 10 | Over half of the 45 heads of state or government , including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt , failed to attend the gathering and were represented instead by deputies . |
| 11 | Despite gaining a second corner during the half , Milton failed to penetrate the home defence and at half time neither side had scored . |
| 12 | Of course they were and they failed , and they failed to penetrate the defence |
| 13 | MARK failed to penetrate the Palace 's inner circle , and Prince Charles was said to have nicknamed him ‘ Fog ’ because he was thick and wet . |
| 14 | It made much of ‘ flexibility ’ but in a way which implied that only certain versions of flexibility were permitted , and it failed to treat the notion of ‘ good practice ’ as the problematic issue it manifestly is . |
| 15 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 16 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although arterial infusion of TDCA ( 100 µmol/l ) significantly inhibited motor activity , it failed to stimulate the release of PYY ( 67 ( 10 ) pmol/l v 93 ( 22 ) pmol/l ; p>0.05 , n=5 ) . |
| 19 | AN X-ray doctor failed to spot a three-inch piece of glass lodged in a patient 's chest . |
| 20 | The High Court heard allegations that each doctor in turn failed to spot a deformity of the left hip . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher stopped him going into the ERM , and Treasury forecasters failed to spot the recession . |
| 22 | A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation . |
| 23 | Town failed to spot the danger and sure enough Portsmouth and Durnin were back after the break : Walsh had a free run and Oxford 's old striker a real blast to make it one-nil . |
| 24 | Automatic cameras snapped a picture of Nichola Grabauskas 's Metro number plate and the back of the breakdown truck but failed to spot the tow rope . |
| 25 | BANK staff failed to spot the age difference when 26-year-old Kenneth Wilby posed as his father . |
| 26 | Almost unprecedentedly , however , English Nature failed to confirm the designation . |
| 27 | Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party . |
| 28 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
| 29 | President Reagan failed to support an effort in Congress to provide a five-year , $1000 million package of loans and other measures to tempt the mining firms into action . |
| 30 | The rain , however , failed to silence the pen of Parsons ( never one to be at a loss for a line or two of copy ! ) . |