Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] failed [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerable criticism was also made of the judge 's summing-up in the case , which some felt failed to clarify the real issues . |
| 2 | James V had failed to subdue the Armstrongs and their kind . |
| 3 | The plenum had been postponed from the end of January after a meeting of the central committee politburo on Jan. 22 had failed to endorse the draft platform ( reported to be largely the work of politburo member and staunch Gorbachev ally Aleksandr Yakovlev ) and had entrusted Gorbachev with the task of revising it . |
| 4 | For all its successes , the French military effort of the 1370s and 1380s had failed to dislodge the English hold in France , particularly in the south-west . |
| 5 | If Merry had failed to stab the Ringwraith , it might have died aeons later at the hands of some other woman , hobbit , elf-hero . |
| 6 | All these techniques have been successful in certain circumstances but most have failed to provide the total answer . |