Example sentences of "failed [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You failed to fall in love with me — |
| 2 | Potting up petunias in coco fibre — only gloxinia failed to thrive in coir compost |
| 3 | He failed to appear in court to face four charges of theft . |
| 4 | Coun Mike J Carr failed to appear in court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Cleveland county councillor John Garvey . |
| 5 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 6 | He jettisoned his parachute but died after his reserve chute failed to open in time . |
| 7 | The risk factors were the parenting provided by mothers who were themselves in care as children ( 23 case , 21 comparison ) , mother who were depressed when their children were 2 years old ( 48 case , 27 comparison ) and mothers whose children failed to grow in spite of the absence of any organic disorder ( 23 case and 23 comparison ) . |
| 8 | Consequently , unlike Canterbury , it failed to keep in line with the Roman practice when the fourteenth day of the moon fell on a Sunday . |
| 9 | Mr Ceausescu had encased himself in such an impeneterable fortress that Gorbachev spared the Romanian leader from the warning he was to deliver later to Erich Honecker , that ageing leaders who failed to reform in time would pay dearly . |
| 10 | THE hopes of a campaigning church minister have been dashed after John Major failed to intervene in closure plans for eight old people 's homes . |
| 11 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 12 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 13 | In some areas council gritters failed to arrive in time to prevent skid-pan surfaces . |
| 14 | Er my Lord it 's rather a complicated of transaction and the the essential heading this case was that he failed to advise in relation to title er the person who goes from with respect to a land transaction he 's entitled to expect that the lawyer investigates the state of entitlement to arrange the matter and to explain to the trial exactly what that is , what it is that is portrayed by the state of the title . |
| 15 | Cells failed to proliferate in culture , which limits any potential for increasing cell number in vitro , but surviving cell clumps impregnated in gelatin squares showed development in vivo . |
| 16 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 17 | Your summoned that at Worley on the twenty fifth of July nineteen eighty eight , you being the driver or a motor car on King Street and an accident occurred where injury was caused to you failed to stop in accordance with section twenty five of the Road Traffic Act of nineteen seventy two . |
| 18 | Her police back-up Rover failed to stop in time and ploughed into her beloved cherry-red Mercedes 500SL . |