Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With one eye on the next deal and the other on the one after that , its grandees failed to spot the long-term slide in profitability , let alone reverse it . |
| 4 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |
| 7 | Prowling on through the foul open area , wrapped in such pleasant fantasies , I almost failed to see the furtive movement on the edge of my vision . |
| 8 | You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting . |
| 9 | He did not feel the movement below him as the tombstone , old and crumbling , began to settle in the ever — soft earth , failed to sense the gentle , swaying motion as it broke away from its anchorage on the wall . |
| 10 | The next day he called a halt to the anti-Suchinda rallies , but warned that they would be resumed if the government failed to implement the constitutional changes . |
| 11 | iv A family has received £400 in compensation after a coach holiday firm failed to provide the smoke-free transport specified in the brochure . |
| 12 | This was misplaced , they claim , for the franchisors failed to deliver stock , failed to provide the requisite level of back-up and consistently over-estimated the level of sales that franchisees might expect . |
| 13 | Roads , communications and power were government dominated monopolies , and failed to provide the necessary service . |
| 14 | In addition , central management failed to provide the clear leadership Griffiths had hoped for . |
| 15 | Mayer was trying to console Gilbert on the day of what should have been his wedding to Garbo , but when the bride failed to appear the forsaken groom fled to the men 's room where Mayer found him crying . |
| 16 | The years 1961 – 63 were undoubtedly one of the peaks in the special relationship , and the successors of Kennedy and Macmillan in the 1960s failed to establish the same rapport . |
| 17 | They failed to catch the popular imagination in the way the inhabitants of Coronation Street , Albert Square and Ramsay Street have done . |
| 18 | We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen . |
| 19 | Mr Bill Loveluck-Edwards , voted best-dressed solicitor in town two years ago , failed to meet the high standards required by the bench in Bridgend , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , and irrespective of the debate on the degree of influence of annual weather variations on long-term ozone trends , the fact that 101 areas in the country failed to meet the 0.12 ppm ozone standard in 1988 is extremely worrying . |
| 21 | Mozart spent part of the autumn of 1790 in Frankfurt , but failed to attract the financial success he desperately needed . |
| 22 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 23 | However the Tatarstan authorities then failed to grant the necessary licences . |
| 24 | Yesterday 's ballot was widely seen as a test of strength for Mr Meciar , whose hand-picked candidate last month outpolled his opposition rival but failed to garner the required three fifths majority in the 150-seat house in two rounds of voting last month . |
| 25 | Thus , when in November 1947 a resolution was put to the United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA ) Committee for Political and Security Questions , calling for a reaffirmation of the December 1946 resolution , it failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for adoption . |
| 26 | However , plans to send members of the Japanese armed forces to the Gulf in a non-combat role had collapsed in November after Kaifu failed to secure the necessary bipartisan support for the measure 's approval in the House of Councillors — the upper chamber of the Diet — where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |
| 27 | Repeated referendums were held between 1983 and 1990 in an attempt to achieve this end , but each failed to secure the necessary 75 per cent approval level [ see p. 37251 ] . |
| 28 | A bill to extend President 's rule in the troubled state of Punjab collapsed in the Lok Sabha on Oct. 1 when it failed to secure the required majority [ for previous extension of President 's rule in April 1990 see p. 37377 ] . |
| 29 | British Coal , in proceeding as it did , failed to secure the responsible and appropriate use of the house it had promised . |
| 30 | That , he admitted on his return , summed up the gloom in the Irish camp as the national team failed to secure the top six finish they needed to win a place in next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |