Example sentences of "[pron] had been a failure " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 2 | In earlier decades it had been generally agreed that there would be benefits from standardisation , but with the benefits accruing variously to consumers , undertakings generally and appliance manufacturers , while the costs fell on the non-standard undertakings alone , there had been a failure to agree on finance for a common scheme . |
| 3 | In recent years , the Committee has noted , with disappointment , that the new Legal Aid Board was not ‘ a Legal Services Board with overall responsibility for legal aid and legal services ’ ; that the present system could not be said to constitute a ‘ comprehensive system of legal services offering good early advice ’ ; and that in considering reform to the legal profession , there had been a failure by government ‘ to examine the place that lawyers ’ services should occupy in the field of legal services as a whole . ’ |
| 4 | In that case there had been a failure to make an application to appoint an independent surveyor within the time limit in the lease . |
| 5 | He knew it had been a failure with a contemporary audience , however , and he looked very sallow and melancholy a few days after its openings . |
| 6 | No matter that it had been a failure . |