Example sentences of "failed make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The East German government was suspicious of Western intentions and two meetings between Brandt and the East German premier , Willi Stolph , in 1970 — though dramatic events in themselves — failed to make much progress . |
| 2 | So the transmitter made its debut in sporting terms — and failed to make much impact with the golfing fraternity . |
| 3 | Halley claims that Sonnabend are disorganised and failed to make suitable contact with collectors and museums interested in his work . |
| 4 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom last year failed to make enough operating profit to offset losses by its sister units , according to yesterday 's edition of Focus magazine : the weekly reckons that Telekom 's 1992 profit totalled about $4,065m and after transferring $3,125m to the government , it was left with only $935m to offset losses of $1,685m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst postal service and $185m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postbank savings bank . |
| 5 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 6 | The 10th preparatory meeting for the holding of joint legislative talks failed to make any progress on Jan. 24 . |
| 7 | A further meeting on Jan. 24 , 1990 , failed to make any progress . |
| 8 | Foreign Ministers ' discussions later in the year failed to make any breakthrough . |
| 9 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 10 | Two further rounds of talks during February between the six republics under the auspices of the federal Presidency failed to make any headway towards achieving agreement on Yugoslavia 's future constitutional structure . |
| 11 | Her mouth was opening and closing , spewing words at him that failed to make any contact in his mind . |
| 12 | The Committee proposed to raise the maximum penalty for this offence to five years , but limited its recommendation to cases where D actively deceives V and failed to make any provision for cases where D takes advantage of a known mistake . |
| 13 | The justices failed to make any determination or finding upon that issue . |
| 14 | The justices failed to make any determination or finding upon this issue . |
| 15 | But there was a setback on Saturday when the French National League 's ( FNL ) disciplinary committee failed to make any ruling at a nine-hour meeting in Paris because they said they did not have enough evidence . |
| 16 | The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices . |
| 17 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 18 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |
| 19 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's still a large installed base of SCO out there ’ , explained ICL 's Peter Stuart , vice president of business development , mid-range systems , although the Open Desktop package failed to make any impact , he said . |
| 21 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 22 | STERLING failed to make further headway yesterday following Thursday 's one point rise in base rates but the dollar strengthened despite expectations that US interest rates may soon ease . |