Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] fail [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 2 | In the 1920s and 1930s attempts to codify rules of air warfare based on this general principle failed to result in the drawing-up of a detailed Convention . |
| 3 | If the petitioning creditor fails to appear at the hearing of the petition , it would seem that the petition must be dismissed and no subsequent petition by the same creditor can be presented in respect of the same debt without the leave of court ( r 6.26 ) . |
| 4 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |
| 5 | Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian delegation failed to progress during the seventh round . |
| 6 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |