Example sentences of "failed [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the Labour party failed to mount a sufficiently large campaign against the non-intervention policy , there seems little doubt that the government would have continued along its agreed course . |
2 | For a time the company failed to acknowledge the problem until the numbers began to be serious , at which time the management decided to ‘ regroup , become leaner , and work differently . ’ |
3 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
4 | He again failed to acknowledge the part that he could play in reducing the odds which are stacked against women and shackle them in the way that he described . |
5 | He failed to realize the difference and his blank expression made her smile . |
6 | What interests her , apparently , is not the remark itself , but ‘ the degree to which the piece of recall ’ — her piece of recall , presumably — ‘ failed to affect the novel in any way ’ . |
7 | Application of human recombinant bFGF ( 1–100 µg/kg/hour subcutaneously ) failed to affect the formation of acute gastric lesions induced by 100% ethanol and acidified aspirin but reduced the stress induced by gastric lesions . |
8 | It came after Benn failed to attend a press conference at London 's Bloomsbury Crest Hotel to publicise his WBC super-middlewight title defence against Nicky Piper at Alexandra Palace on Saturday . |
9 | Mrs Allsopp failed to attend a meeting last night of the Parish Council , of which she 's chairman . |
10 | If anyone failed to attend the muster , heavy fines and punishments could be imposed . |
11 | Over half of the 45 heads of state or government , including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt , failed to attend the gathering and were represented instead by deputies . |
12 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
13 | Despite Savimbi 's Nov. 17 commitment , UNITA failed to attend the multiparty talks on Nov. 21 , describing the meeting as a " circus " and citing fears for the security of its officials as the reason for its absence . |
14 | MARK failed to penetrate the Palace 's inner circle , and Prince Charles was said to have nicknamed him ‘ Fog ’ because he was thick and wet . |
15 | Of course they were and they failed , and they failed to penetrate the defence |
16 | Despite gaining a second corner during the half , Milton failed to penetrate the home defence and at half time neither side had scored . |
17 | It made much of ‘ flexibility ’ but in a way which implied that only certain versions of flexibility were permitted , and it failed to treat the notion of ‘ good practice ’ as the problematic issue it manifestly is . |
18 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
19 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
20 | Although Noir — a popular local politician — was re-elected to his seat , his challenge to Jacques Chirac 's leadership of the RPR failed to gather the momentum he had hoped . |
21 | Although arterial infusion of TDCA ( 100 µmol/l ) significantly inhibited motor activity , it failed to stimulate the release of PYY ( 67 ( 10 ) pmol/l v 93 ( 22 ) pmol/l ; p>0.05 , n=5 ) . |
22 | AN X-ray doctor failed to spot a three-inch piece of glass lodged in a patient 's chest . |
23 | The High Court heard allegations that each doctor in turn failed to spot a deformity of the left hip . |
24 | With one eye on the next deal and the other on the one after that , its grandees failed to spot the long-term slide in profitability , let alone reverse it . |
25 | Automatic cameras snapped a picture of Nichola Grabauskas 's Metro number plate and the back of the breakdown truck but failed to spot the tow rope . |
26 | Mrs Thatcher stopped him going into the ERM , and Treasury forecasters failed to spot the recession . |
27 | BANK staff failed to spot the age difference when 26-year-old Kenneth Wilby posed as his father . |
28 | A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation . |
29 | Town failed to spot the danger and sure enough Portsmouth and Durnin were back after the break : Walsh had a free run and Oxford 's old striker a real blast to make it one-nil . |
30 | Almost unprecedentedly , however , English Nature failed to confirm the designation . |