Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] [adv] failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Russell Johnston , MP for one of the UK 's largest constituencies , Inverness , Nairn and Lochaber , said the Chancellor had once again failed to make any differentiation between the situation of urban and rural car owners . |
| 2 | ‘ A new demand is spreading through the market like wildfire and Bolt Head has quite simply failed to spot it . |
| 3 | CAP has so far failed to tackle the disadvantages or to help to secure the benefits of the few comparative advantages of the DRAs . |
| 4 | The logic — that the Treasury could not be expected to control something that was for local councils ' electorates to decide finally sank in , not least because the Treasury had so regularly failed to keep them to their limits . |
| 5 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 6 | Microsoft 's attempts to take control of the US Windows-based home finance and small business accounts market has so far failed to unseat Intuit 's top selling package , Quicken 6 for DOS . |
| 7 | Before looking at how , albeit unwittingly , orthodox Christianity has too often failed to appreciate the dramatic nature of the Great Battle , I want to add a footnote on myth , the gospel , and modern scholarship . |