Example sentences of "fail make any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spruce consulted his list , failing to make any sort of connection and asked , not for the first time in the enquiry , ‘ Which Yaxlee would that be ? ’ |
| 2 | Indubitably , Buzzcocks will hardly figure strongly — or even weakly — in the NME poll , and in these dark days when Patti Smith , Loudon Wainwright or even the New York Dolls fail to make any impact on Radio One DJs , common sense is therefore not so common . |
| 3 | It is surely a matter for concern , however , that manufacturers fail to make any mention of this problem in their manuals . |
| 4 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 5 | Then they may fail to make any choice of field or plan of action until it is too late . |
| 6 | Her father 's will also made provision for the destination of this life interest should she fail to make any such appointment : the money would be payable to a number of her distant relatives . |
| 7 | The Committee proposed to raise the maximum penalty for this offence to five years , but limited its recommendation to cases where D actively deceives V and failed to make any provision for cases where D takes advantage of a known mistake . |
| 8 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |
| 9 | They too failed to make any significant impact , and many struggling churches have either been forced to close or to relocate in the suburbs following the migration pattern of their members . |
| 10 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's still a large installed base of SCO out there ’ , explained ICL 's Peter Stuart , vice president of business development , mid-range systems , although the Open Desktop package failed to make any impact , he said . |
| 12 | The British attempt in 1986 failed to make any significant impression on the route , despite much larger resources , emphasising the scale of the French achievement . |
| 13 | Foreign Ministers ' discussions later in the year failed to make any breakthrough . |
| 14 | The Progressives barely existed outside the Duma itself , while the Kadets , the major liberal party , failed to make any significant inroads into the business community . |
| 15 | The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices . |
| 16 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 17 | The justices failed to make any determination or finding upon that issue . |
| 18 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 19 | The justices failed to make any determination or finding upon this issue . |
| 20 | Local community action had in fact failed to make any important impact on the larger social and economic political structures in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | The 10th preparatory meeting for the holding of joint legislative talks failed to make any progress on Jan. 24 . |
| 22 | A further meeting on Jan. 24 , 1990 , failed to make any progress . |
| 23 | Two further rounds of talks during February between the six republics under the auspices of the federal Presidency failed to make any headway towards achieving agreement on Yugoslavia 's future constitutional structure . |
| 24 | A second meeting was held in mid-October [ see p. 37779-80 ] and a third in December [ see pp. 37918-19 ] , but they also failed to make any tangible progress . |
| 25 | The fifth round of Sino-US trade talks held in Beijing on Aug. 19-21 on allowing greater US access to China 's markets failed to make any significant progress . |
| 26 | But , despite his experience with Darwin , Gould failed to make any evolutionary observations from Sturt 's information . |
| 27 | But there was a setback on Saturday when the French National League 's ( FNL ) disciplinary committee failed to make any ruling at a nine-hour meeting in Paris because they said they did not have enough evidence . |
| 28 | Her mouth was opening and closing , spewing words at him that failed to make any contact in his mind . |
| 29 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 30 | In the second place , the analogy fails to make any distinction between the way bodies behave and the way inanimate objects behave . |