Example sentences of "[verb] fail [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the war the Jewish and Gentile communities lived in ignorance of each other and since the war state censorship has failed to allow a full discussion of past antisemitism ( which persisted in some ugly incidents after the war ) . |
| 2 | Where the applicant has failed to attend a previous hearing the court may refuse to hear his renewed application until he has paid the previous costs thrown away , which the court may assess for that purpose ( Thames Investments & Securities plc v Benjamin [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1381 ) . |
| 3 | The Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) has failed to generate a qualified workforce among the young . |
| 4 | The council does , however , bring a disciplinary case against a doctor who , having decided to practice a particular form of medicine or to carry out a particular procedure , does so in a way that can be shown to have been irresponsible , or unnecessarily hazardous to one or more patients , because the doctor has failed to exercise a proper standard of professional care ; the council also brings a disciplinary case when a doctor makes outrageous and false claims regarding the efficacy of a particular form of treatment . |
| 5 | The displacement model which has historically prevailed in schools ' responses to troublesome children has failed to show a satisfactory effectiveness either in terms of outcome for identified pupils or in terms of relieving pressure on teachers . |
| 6 | In that country membership is relatively low , unionism has been characterised by weakness and instability and has failed to achieve a mass base comparable to the union movements in Germany , Britain , Belgium and Scandinavia . |
| 7 | Republicanism has failed to become a serious issue in twentieth-century politics . |
| 8 | A SCHEME by the Department of Health to provide beds for mentally ill people living rough has failed to help a single person , a group of leading charities says today . |
| 9 | But he has failed to command a regular place during Graeme Souness 's reign as manager and the signing of Nigel Clough looks to have been the final straw for Ronny . |
| 10 | Because he has failed to offer a clear-cut criterion for the rejection of any coherent research programme , or for choosing between rival research programmes , one might wish to say , with Feyerabend , that Lakatos 's methodology is ‘ a verbal ornament , as a memorial to happier times when it was still thought possible to run a complex and often catastrophic business like science by following a few simple and ‘ rational ’ rules ’ . |
| 11 | Labour has failed to build a popular consensus around educational reform and was trumped by Ashdown 's penny on income tax . |
| 12 | Marwood has failed to win a regular place at Bramall Lane since his £300,000 transfer from Arsenal two years ago and has not made a single appearance this season . |
| 13 | A CO Down businessman who played a key role in the inter-party talks at Stormont has failed to win a Unionist Party nomination to stand in East Belfast in May 's local government elections . |
| 14 | Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , has failed to win a new deal for Palestinians from the Israeli Prime Minister , Yitsak Shamir . |
| 15 | I am sure that the House is distressed that the Minister has failed to make a proper statement . |
| 16 | A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession . |
| 17 | Bett Brothers , the property , housing and leisure group , has ceased operations at Bett Trucks having failed to find a main distributor for Leyland Daf , its franchiser . |
| 18 | Having received this notice of intention to wind up their company at Coldharbour Road , Smith & Jones once more offered £500 , this time in an open letter , in full and final satisfaction of the claim for £1250 , GFT having failed to provide a satisfactory explanation as to damage and delay . |
| 19 | It can also be used when several results have already been found but people are unable to proceed further to a generalisation ; for instance , they may have failed to spot a linear relationship or a well-known number-sequence in their results . |
| 20 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 21 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |
| 22 | So far , they 've failed to make a serious dent in the all-important college music scene , essential if a so-called ‘ alternative ’ band wants to crack America ( and keep their US record deal ) . |
| 23 | In that case the plaintiff , Dr. Roy , had begun an action in the Queen 's Bench Division against his family practitioner committee seeking , amongst other things , payment of part of his basic practice allowance which had been withheld by the committee , following their decision that he had failed to devote a substantial amount of his time to general practice as required by the relevant regulations . |
| 24 | In London , however , he had failed to broach a central issue . |
| 25 | Higgins had failed to attend a post-match press conference at Stoke in September , and also admitted using foul and abusive language towards two WPBSA officials and three journalists in a late-night incident in a Reading hotel bar in October . |
| 26 | Richmond 's back-row was especially impressive , and Hudson , a lively forager , thoroughly deserved his first-half try , after Roundhay had failed to kill a loose ball . |
| 27 | Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role . |
| 28 | By the Edwardian period it had become inescapably clear that middle-class evangelism had failed to create a working class in its own image ; the great majority of London workers , particularly , were not Christian , provident , chaste or temperate by middle-class standards , while the artisan and skilled worker had developed social and political patterns of their own . |
| 29 | They had failed to provide a safe system . |
| 30 | The summit was originally intended to improve EC foreign policy co-ordination after member countries had failed to present a united front during the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37927 ; 37934 ] . |