Example sentences of "[adv] have fail [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last he turned to her and he could not have failed to see the anguish in her eyes . |
| 2 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 3 | Coleridge himself can not have failed to make the calculation that of four marriageable Fricker sisters , one was married to Robert Lovell , and another all but engaged to Southey . |
| 4 | Unless the man is a total stranger — and sometimes even then , too — a woman may blame herself for somehow having failed to prevent the attack . |
| 5 | Collectors can hardly have failed to notice the appearances back in March not only of Volume 1 of our survey of recommended mid- and budget priced recordings , but also a more selective ‘ Top 100 ’ in two other publications . |
| 6 | Readers of the British press can hardly have failed to notice the headlines announcing ‘ How the Universe Began ’ , ‘ the Holy Grail of Cosmology ’ and the ‘ Discovery of All Time ’ . |
| 7 | These leaders have tried the forceful suppression of such activities , but inevitably have failed to maintain the state thus established and eventually have been obliged to retract . |
| 8 | To think that God can be some further reality beyond the reality we know is simply to have failed to define the reality we know widely enough . |
| 9 | Most of the recommendations have been implemented , but they too have failed to end the controversies that the reorganisations of the 1970s provoked . |