Example sentences of "have failed [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following pages reveal the extent to which , in the economy , in the environment , in education , and in local services , successive British governments have failed to realise the opportunities of the past decades . |
| 2 | When the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee met in September 1956 , Vo Nguyen Giap read out a long list of errors , some quite devastating : ‘ We have failed to realise the necessity of uniting with the middle-level peasants . |
| 3 | The report , The Lost Land , says that Department of the Environment ( DoE ) statistics have failed to record the loss of 690 square miles of countryside , an area larger than Greater London , since the second world war . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , jumpy MPs have failed to notice the real threat to the return of private railways . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a major disappointment that they have failed to take the necessary initiatives . ’ |
| 6 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 7 | The Government have failed to take the opportunities before them . |
| 8 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 9 | It would appear that the Trust have failed to include the notice in the machine as a term of the contract ( Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking ) . |
| 10 | How much better in the long run for companies , auditors and regulation generally if auditors would have the courage to make timely representations aimed at a general ruling , in these circumstances , assuming that they have failed to persuade the client not to proceed and that the grounds for an audit qualification are uncertain . |
| 11 | Does the Secretary of State realise that his comments have failed to persuade the House that the policy that he and the Government are operating is right ? |
| 12 | However , if your swing clearly does n't work because you have failed to grasp the basic fundamentals , no amount of ‘ confidence ’ will remedy the situation . |
| 13 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he said , as if he was an experienced soldier talking to a rather dumb general , ‘ there are many impostors in Thy world and many of Us have failed to Grasp the … er … |
| 14 | So far Soviet officials have failed to link the notion of some form of neutralisation of Afghanistan specifically with understandings on the neutrality of the states around it . |
| 15 | The Green Party has published a survey which claims that nearly all councils have failed to implement the law on air pollution . |
| 16 | but also notes that some such as Young ( 1974 ) have argued that geographers have failed to realize the potential of contributing to human ecology because they were overconcerned with environmental determinism . |
| 17 | All referendums so far have failed to reach the required majority , although more than half the electorate voted in favour . |
| 18 | Those who are climbing the career ladder fast may use alcohol as a booster to help them to achieve , and those who recognize that they have failed to reach the top may also turn to alcohol , in an attempt to bolster their failing self-image . |
| 19 | Contrary to popular myth and the Government 's public relations machine , you were among around 30 million people in Britain who have failed to join the crusade of popular capitalism which swept through the 1980s . |
| 20 | Contrary to popular myth and the government 's public relations machine , you were among around 30 million people in Britain who have failed to join the crusade of popular capitalism which swept through the 1980s . |
| 21 | ‘ We have sown the seeds , but we have failed to reap the harvest . |
| 22 | Values education is largely bound up with behaviour , and teachers blame the lowered expectations in behaviour on the emotional troubles imported from home — and on parents who have failed to draw the line on behaviour for their offspring . |
| 23 | In recent years , however , increasing numbers have been killed by opportunist visitors , who have failed to respect the local custom of leaving the young mussels to live and breed . |
| 24 | Mr Oak writes : ‘ I feel that members ’ attention should be brought to the following : ‘ The Durlia Club have not paid their rent since July 1990 ; they have failed to insure the building against fire , which is a serious breach of their lease ; they have failed to keep the building in reasonable repair following a fire in April 1991 . |
| 25 | Professor Camille quotes the ‘ blinded generations of scholars ’ who have failed to see the true significance of these unofficial marginal images . |
| 26 | They feel that the new aid has failed , or that they have failed to find the magic touch in using it . |
| 27 | A number of investigators have failed to find the expected correlations between lack of support , stress and psychiatric disorder shown in Figure 7.1 . |
| 28 | Regulations , however , have failed to address the mounting risks to consumers from pollution and chemical waste , which share the water with the seafood . |
| 29 | But in seeking the right to renationalise the Scottish water industry , should that be privatised , they have failed to address the implications of that policy . |
| 30 | Libraries have failed to recognise the change in the information-seeking patterns of the individual , and so the market share of library services has decreased . |