Example sentences of "failed [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group also said that the police had failed properly to appreciate the seriousness of what was taking place : that despite the racist nature of the attacks , local beat officers had lectured the Ks themselves on their ‘ attitude problem . ’ |
| 2 | Outcomes have failed disastrously to match the input of additional resources to law and order . |
| 3 | And just as IBM has failed accurately to perceive the power of the customers ' unions , it has underestimated the importance of lessors and publishers . |
| 4 | It has brought claims that the police have failed even to recognise the nature of the problem , much less contain it . |
| 5 | Marcel Proust was born in Paris , on the tenth of July , eighteen seventy-one , two months after the collapse of the Commune. erm His father was a well-known doctor , who seems curiously enough to have failed markedly to understand the causes of his son 's lifelong illness erm and his mother was the daughter of a Jewish stockbroker . |
| 6 | This announcement came in the wake of a growing number of reports that the civilian government had failed adequately to supervise the distribution of relief . |
| 7 | His meeting with Conable followed a Jan. 16 decision by the World Bank to reject a Turkish request for a US$400,000,000 restructuring package , on the grounds that Turkey had failed adequately to fulfil the World Bank 's conditions on budget and inflation rate cuts . |