Example sentences of "failed [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nourse J in the Chancery Division agreed with the finding of the Special Commissioners and felt that the Inland Revenue had failed to see the wood for the trees ( p457e ) . |
| 2 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 3 | Only a man as blank as he would have failed to see the hollowness of my enthusiasm . |
| 4 | Mosley , arguing that Spengler 's understanding of caesarism was profound but that he had failed to see the potential in modern science to rejuvenate society , saw fascism as a ‘ mutiny against destiny ’ . |
| 5 | At last he turned to her and he could not have failed to see the anguish in her eyes . |
| 6 | The Green Party has published a survey which claims that nearly all councils have failed to implement the law on air pollution . |
| 7 | The importance of acceptance is that once it has taken place , the buyer can no longer reject the goods , claim that the seller has failed to perform the contract , and refuse to pay the price . |
| 8 | He drew his sword and , with a smooth overarm throw , completely failed to hit the troll . |
| 9 | Six foot shit-hot sharp shooter that never failed to hit the spot . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A secretary is seeking High Court permission to sue three doctors who she says failed to spot a hip deformity when she was a baby . |
| 12 | A High Court Judge has ruled that a woman CAN sue three doctors , who she says failed to spot a hip deformity when she was a baby . |
| 13 | The evidence did not justify the judge 's conclusion that no competent valuer could have failed to spot the potential of the two oils . |
| 14 | Many a blindfolded tasting panel has failed to spot the difference between the apple grown without pesticides and that which has . |
| 15 | When Harry replied to her letters , her heart never failed to miss a beat as she recognized his handwriting . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The present Survey makes it clear that the continued circulation of such lists has again failed to stimulate the use of foreign-language publications . |
| 18 | It wrings higher performance per clock than anybody and it has not broken compatibility the way Intel intends to do with the P6 and the way IBM has done with the Rios and its subset , the PowerPC , having apparently failed to scale the thing down to the desktop and having instead been forced to strip out 40 instructions and substitute a software emulator . |
| 19 | Yet over half of the disabled people being cared for in Glendinning 's ( 1992a ) study had apparently failed to claim the attendance allowance when they first became eligible , thereby potentially affecting their carers ' benefit entitlement as well : |
| 20 | Clinic surveys in Scotland , America , and Germany have failed to confirm an association but have been criticised for flaws in study design . |
| 21 | It is a measure of the seriousness of the arguments we put that , more than six months later , the Department still failed to issue the ruling , which it had promised to deliver as a matter of some urgency . |
| 22 | Despite many cultural imports from China during their subsequent history , the islanders conspicuously failed to acquire a reverence for jade . |
| 23 | On his last point , Labour has manifestly failed to square the circle . |
| 24 | After some questioning of the driver , the constable concluded that his objection to providing a specimen of blood was invalid and treated him as having failed to provide a specimen under section 7(4) . |
| 25 | A visit by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1991 had failed to provide a solution [ see p. 38148 ] . |
| 26 | He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary . |
| 27 | On Feb. 2 , in accordance with the recommendation of the Multi-Party Democratic General Elections Commission of the Union of Myanma , the SLORC ordered the abolition of 17 political parties , on the grounds that they had failed to provide the Commission with details of their party structures and membership . |
| 28 | If large-scale research has failed to provide the guidance we need , others have used direct experience and informed ‘ hunch ’ to give us help in serving a particular age group . |
| 29 | An investigation has failed to discover the cause of an epidemic which struck more than sixty people and closed a school . |
| 30 | An investigation has failed to discover the cause of an epidemic which struck more than sixty people . : |