Example sentences of "[conj] failed [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen . |
| 2 | His early work about the alleys of Gamalliyya was fundamentally on the side of the revolution-the one that failed to dislodge the British in 1919 , and that finally threw out Farouk and brought Neguib and later Nasser to rule Egypt . |
| 3 | Mr Blair said a recent Government campaign had focused on car security and failed to tackle the central problem of youth crime . |
| 4 | There were several litters to do and I was in a hurry and failed to notice the Irish farm worker 's mounting apprehension . |
| 5 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 6 | The volume of investments fell 10 per cent short of the target and failed to reach the 1988 level . |
| 7 | ‘ If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures . |
| 8 | Roads , communications and power were government dominated monopolies , and failed to provide the necessary service . |
| 9 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
| 10 | Geraldine Ferraro , who had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 , once again suffered because of her husband 's alleged connections with the Mafia and failed to win the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat for New York . |
| 11 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 12 | During 1991 , for instance , Hi-Five 's ‘ I Like The Way ( The Kissing Game ) ’ , a Jive release , headed the US listings but failed to dent the Top 40 here , a similar fate befalling Surface 's ‘ The First Time ’ . |
| 13 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 14 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 15 | In any technical comment you make , please remember that a former editor made a passionate technical plea for the retention of 405 lines but failed to realise the commercial advantages which had then already accrued in the 625 line camp . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's ballot was widely seen as a test of strength for Mr Meciar , whose hand-picked candidate last month outpolled his opposition rival but failed to garner the required three fifths majority in the 150-seat house in two rounds of voting last month . |
| 17 | Manchester-based Airtours needed 50 per cent of Owners ' shareholders to agree to the deal , but failed to get the necessary votes . |
| 18 | He also won majority support for early parliamentary elections , but failed to get the necessary absolute majority of all registered voters , so the proposal failed . |
| 19 | Ards kept going forward at every opportunity and Fry kicked further two penalties in a storming finish but failed to get the deciding winning score . |
| 20 | In presidential elections held on April 8 , Mario Vargas Llosa , 54 , the internationally acclaimed novelist and candidate of the Democratic Front ( FREDEMO ) , won 27.61 per cent of the vote but failed to gain the necessary overall majority . |
| 21 | On May 13 the bill was approved by the Soviet of the Union , but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority in the Soviet of Nationalities . |
| 22 | Mozart spent part of the autumn of 1790 in Frankfurt , but failed to attract the financial success he desperately needed . |
| 23 | Control of the existing social machinery counted for quite a lot in this battle ; the reformers forced some concessions but failed to topple the existing hierarchy . |
| 24 | The member concerned addressed the meeting but failed to achieve the required 75 per cent majority to overthrow the expulsion . |
| 25 | The neo-Nazi Republicans ( Republikaner ) had campaigned strongly for German reunification , while also playing on West German fears engendered by the flood of immigrants from Eastern Europe , but failed to win the 5 per cent of votes needed to win representation in the Landtag . |
| 26 | The buyer paid the cash sum but failed to deliver the two ‘ trade-in ’ lorries . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , in relying on projected trends in age structure , Beveridge forecast a certain level of dependent poverty , but failed to address the generational variations in lifetime patterns of personal economic behaviour which helped to create it . |