Example sentences of "[verb] consistently failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences between mental illness and mental handicap are widely known , yet legislation on the subject has consistently failed to take these differences into account . |
| 2 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 3 | ‘ Our Dublin plant has consistently failed to produce the expected results , and it is this unfortunate experience which will weigh heavily against any further investment in Eire ; in much the same way as it has weighed heavily against the UK . |
| 4 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 5 | The explanation is , therefore , partly economic : successive governments having consistently failed to create a national consensus around the restoration of a productive national economy . |
| 6 | They had consistently failed to push through reforms when governing alone . |
| 7 | It has , as they say , ‘ all the toys ’ , and is Fiat 's executive-class contender in a field in which they have consistently failed to shine to date . |
| 8 | The GMC should consider censoring all forms of diagnosis and treatment which , by reasonable standards , have consistently failed to show clinical efficacy . |
| 9 | Studies based in Britain on the 65 + age group have consistently failed to identify age or sex as ‘ risk ’ factors for readmission ( Victor and Vetter 1985a ; Graham and Livesley 1983 ; Andrews 1986 ) . |