Example sentences of "have [adv] failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three remaining elders — Chen Yun , Wang Zhen and Song Renqiong , each of whom is believed to be in poor health — have conspicuously failed to put their name to a cause that , according to their past views , could lead to a ‘ capitalist restoration ’ . |
| 2 | He maintains ( 1980a , p. 163 ) that far greater attention should be paid to non-local influences , asserting that ‘ local political studies have fundamentally failed to explain the observed regularity of urban policy change across many decentralized authorities ’ . |
| 3 | While use of mortality as the sole criterion of therapeutic efficacy in intensive care units is open to debate , these studies have all failed to show any cost benefit ; in one , selective decontamination of the gut doubled the total cost of antimicrobial drugs . |
| 4 | Planning-programming-budgeting systems , public expenditure surveys , programme analysis and review , the rationalization of budgetary choice and other planning devices have all failed to displace established bureaucratic procedures and elites . |
| 5 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 6 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 7 | The social sciences studied during training have entirely failed to provide teachers with a new working vocabulary . |
| 8 | Er , er my understanding to , to er about five minutes ago was that you were saying we have not failed to perform our legal obligations under clause nine , because clause nine er is either wholly or to be extent that it relates to the underwriting which we disapprove partially invalid out of being part of the erm , the anti competitive of erm the argument you 're pursuing . |
| 9 | Unless you have agreed that we may disclose information about your personal affairs ( or we are required by law to do so ) , such information will remain confidential to us provided you have not failed to repay us any money properly demanded from you ( see next bullet point b ) . |
| 10 | Here in Germany also , Panofsky 's English writings have not failed to have an effect . |
| 11 | The supporters have not failed to build on the promise shown last season ! |
| 12 | Such structures and networks , however , have generally failed to offset the inherent fragmentation of the post-1986 local government system or the inbuilt suspicions which have accompanied recent reorganizations . |
| 13 | Ministers have generally failed to grasp the implications of Mrs Thatcher 's conversion to the cause of the environment . |
| 14 | Many studies have examined the diagnostic potential of immunohistochemistry , but they have generally failed to show the clear definitions found with prostate specific antigen or thyroglobulin . |
| 15 | While many new ideas have been promoted for budgetary reform it remains the case that they have generally failed to gain general acceptance . |
| 16 | On this the last word must be Solzhenitsyn 's : ‘ There are many who are aware that communism is an evil and menace to the world , but who have nevertheless failed to grasp its implacable nature … |
| 17 | Though the sound of solo voice with choral accompaniment can be very beautiful , composers have largely failed to exploit this resource , possibly because they are well aware that a good solo voice may not always be available . |
| 18 | While foreigners on Wall Street have largely failed to break into the domestic-equity business , the gaijin houses on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) have won Japanese institutional business at the expense of the big four Japanese securities houses , mostly because the foreigners offer better research . |
| 19 | For the benefit of those who have somehow failed to read the widespread newspaper accounts ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |
| 22 | The Opposition have totally failed to grasp the banding concept . |
| 23 | They have made interesting and occasionally convincing criticisms , but they have totally failed to suggest an alternative future for this country . |
| 24 | Smaller wage rises would make it possible to have lower inflation at a higher level of output — a combination that clever manipulations of macroeconomic policy ( interest rates , exchange rates and budget deficits ) have always failed to achieve . |
| 25 | I think that er , I 'll be very brief because a lot of it 's already been said , and you 've already , Mr Chairman picked up Mr on his dodgy figures , erm , with his five million , erm , because what that was about , just under three million was actually fulfilling our election pledges , which is something we have noticeably failed to see from this Conservative government . |
| 26 | The Faculty Office or the Schools Liaison Office will be pleased to advise on this and also upon an appropriate choice of sixth year subjects , particularly where students have marginally failed to meet the entry requirements at the first sitting of Highers . |
| 27 | The Social Democratic Party and the Clean Government Party , Japan 's two biggest opposition parties , have both failed to use the LDP 's disarray to improve their own poll ratings . |
| 28 | The city technology colleges , outside local authority control , have also failed to develop at the speed the government hoped for . |
| 29 | Harlow should of applied for a designation a long time ago if Harlow had been designated then surrounding councils would have had to live up their responsibilities to provide adequate sites for travellers which they have not done and successive governments have also failed to apply the caravan sites act nineteen sixty eight adequately . |
| 30 | Christians have also failed to care sufficiently for the victims of the new morality , or to demonstrate a satisfying alternative in positive , healthy family life . |