Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 3 | A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al . |
| 4 | It follows criticism that the authorities were failing to provide the same level of help for drug users which is available outside prison . |
| 5 | In complete contrast , the hard-up Blues , who are now some £5m in the red , are failing to make the most of a sound defence because , as I have written repeatedly throughout the last 12 months , they are seriously short of creative ability in midfield . |
| 6 | By l , 227,000 votes to l , 083,000 he was allowed to speak , but by general agreement failed to make the most of this opportunity . |
| 7 | Atherton and DeFreitas failed to make the most of their first Test selection and face a nervous wait until Gooch 's side for Lord 's is named on Sunday . |
| 8 | There were some signs of encouragement for manager Brian Clough , but his side again failed to make the most of their scoring chances . |
| 9 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 10 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 11 | He had already become dependent on Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] for funds ( a loan of £10,000 in 1788 ) but the prosperity of muslins now evaporated , while Oldknow failed to achieve the same mastery of technical perfection in fine-cotton spinning . |
| 12 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
| 13 | For all its undoubted talents , chief of which are its chassis , cabin and controls , the 300SL-24 fails to do the same . |
| 14 | Having failed to lure the former coach Chalky White away from the Rugby Football Union , the Tigers are to advertise the post with a salary of around £20,000 , plus a pension and car . |
| 15 | The Darlington 's figures are the latest from a Northern building society which show that the slump in the housing market suffered in other regions has failed to have the same feared effect in the North-East . |