Example sentences of "[noun] had failed [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report stated that another 40 results were outstanding and that repeat elections were to be held in 20 constituencies where candidates had failed to receive the minimum number of votes . |
| 2 | Elections were thus scheduled for Nov. 18 in these five constituencies , and in seven others where candidates had failed to get the necessary minimum number of votes in the July 29 elections [ see p. 37656 ] . |
| 3 | Massive American economic aid had failed to strengthen the French position . |
| 4 | The Guardian of Dec. 29 reported that Wang had " been under a cloud " ever since the police force had failed to control the nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 5 | But the ballot was inconclusive because Heath had failed to secure the necessary 15 per cent lead-he had not received 15 per cent more of the votes cast than any other candidate . |
| 6 | Leviticus , a person of such weapon-grade stupidity his mental faculties would probably have improved with the onset of senile dementia , left Scotland because the Conservatives had failed to reverse the Socialist reforms of the previous Labour government : railways still nationalised ; working class breeding like flies now the welfare state existed to prevent the natural culling by disease ; state-owned mines = intolerable . |
| 7 | Successive British governments had failed to tackle the economic and social problems which the area suffered from . |
| 8 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet on Sept. 11 , Ryzhkov admitted that the working group had failed to synthesise the rival plans . |
| 9 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 10 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |
| 11 | The court had failed to obtain the crucial testimony of four South African policemen due to the absence of an extradition treaty between Namibia and South Africa . |
| 12 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |
| 13 | It was obvious from this that all the various reassurances from the state had failed to convince the local residents that uranium prospecting was harmless . |
| 14 | Above all , Britain had failed to convince the new French president that it could be nothing but a rival to France for European leadership . |
| 15 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities claimed that the Government had failed to acknowledge the overwhelming case for more investment . |
| 16 | An alternative scheme for the provision of advice was proposed and adopted after 10 years of pressure had failed to get the original scheme implemented . |
| 17 | It noted that the authorities had failed to investigate the six previous attempts on the life of Francisco " Chico " Mendes , the peasant union leader and ecological campaigner who was finally murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 , in the Amazonian town of Xapuri [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 18 | The ones I spoke with believed that the authorities had failed to address the real issues . |
| 19 | Speaking of Tynagh he said the company had failed to fulfil the only planning obligation required of them : that they leave the place as near as possible to how they found it . |
| 20 | According to Snow , even the rise of modem science and technology had failed to displace the old pattern of training a small elite which characterizes English university education . |
| 21 | Note was taken that Ned had failed to advise the twelfth floor of Barley 's drunken breakout after his return from Leningrad . |
| 22 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 23 | In the legislative elections of October 1991 the party had failed to reach the necessary minimum of 7 per cent of votes cast . |