Example sentences of "failed [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suspect , however , that the reason for the low positivity in their experiment could be due to differences in sensitivity , and this study failed to include positive control tissue infected with tuberculosis to detect this . |
| 2 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 3 | Shopkeeper Ajay Patel , 24 , failed to see 26-year-old Lynn Jones an honours graduate working to finance biology studies in Africa until it was too late , said Derek Inman , prosecuting . |
| 4 | One big reason was that firms failed to curb non-interest costs , notably pay . |
| 5 | The report concluded by stating that Orkney Islands Council failed to implement good working practice as required by the Scottish Office . |
| 6 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 7 | Another one bites the dust : Zeos International Ltd reports that a US district court dismissed a class action shareholder suit against it because the plaintiffs failed to provide specific facts that were material to the trial : the suit was filed last September , alleging that the company failed to disclose the formation of its new subsidiary , Occidental Corp , to manufacture and market lower cost computers under a new brand name , a development revealed by the Wall Street Journal . |
| 8 | In one case , the High Court turned down a complaint that an authority failed to provide unstressful transport for a child because regulations governing ‘ statementing ’ do not require an authority to specify that there should be non-stressful transport . |
| 9 | ‘ The Government failed to provide adequate protection of pensions and it has a moral responsibility to help the Maxwell pensioners . ’ |
| 10 | Our criticism of the Bill rests on some of the ways in which the Government have approached the project , or failed to provide adequate safeguards . |
| 11 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 12 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 13 | When this failed to contain local spending sufficiently , volume targets were introduced together with penalties in the form of loss of central government grant if local authorities exceeded their targets . |
| 14 | It refused to sign the 1988 accounts when the thrift failed to meet minimum capital standards . |
| 15 | Twenty-four per cent of British bathing beaches failed to meet minimum EC safety standards for water quality in 1991 — an increase of one per cent on the previous year . |
| 16 | He argued that as old institutions failed to meet new expectations , so legitimacy in government would falter and trust in its equity and effectiveness would decline . |
| 17 | Doctors who regularly failed to meet local standards could not be disciplined by management , only by their peers . |
| 18 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 19 | This so-called new standard machine found itself overtaken by new technology and failed to attract hoped-for export orders , only running to fifty examples . |
| 20 | In particular , the government failed to attract foreign airlines to take a stake in the national carrier Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano ( LAB ) , having refused as " inadequate " a bid by Iberia , the Spanish state airline . |
| 21 | Considering that NFS version 3 , which was a major re-do , is sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust because it failed to garner popular support , there will probably be some reluctance to call this puppy by the same name . |
| 22 | Contacts made locally , from a string of hill villages overlooking the camps , and in Damascus and Tunis , failed to secure Palestinian agreement to disarm and withdraw to the camps . |
| 23 | The total number of boat people in Hong Kong had reached some 56,000 as of October 1989 [ see p. 36975 ] , and the UK had in January 1990 failed to secure international approval for a policy of involuntary repatriation [ see pp. 37121-22 ; 37185 ] . |
| 24 | On May 22-23 a 48-hour general strike , in protest against the recessionary effects of the government 's anti-inflation policies and led by the Central Unica de Trabajadores ( CUT ) , failed to secure wide support . |
| 25 | There were reports that senior ministers were insisting that if she failed to secure outright victory , she should consult them before deciding to carry on . |
| 26 | However , this failed to secure unequivocal backing when it was presented to a joint session of the Presidential and Federation Councils on Aug. 30-31 . |
| 27 | The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation . |
| 28 | Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section . |
| 29 | Lodwick 's unpublished manuscripts , including an innovatory Dutch shorthand , are listed in his Works ( 1972 ) , all of which display originality and intelligence , but failed to find practical implementation by his successors . |
| 30 | As it turned out , we only once failed to find wild cocoa in all the areas we visited throughout the region . |