Example sentences of "[noun pl] have fail [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Cardus , however , feels the factory have made great strides forward with the chassis of the 1991 NSR which in recent years has failed to match the sweet handling of the Yamaha YZR . |
| 5 | Successive British governments had failed to tackle the economic and social problems which the area suffered from . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A number of investigators have failed to find the expected correlations between lack of support , stress and psychiatric disorder shown in Figure 7.1 . |
| 9 | The Darlington 's figures are the latest from a Northern building society which show that the slump in the housing market suffered in other regions has failed to have the same feared effect in the North-East . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | The ones I spoke with believed that the authorities had failed to address the real issues . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , jumpy MPs have failed to notice the real threat to the return of private railways . |