Example sentences of "[coord] fail [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian 's concern for the reform of the criminal should never make him either deny the offence or fail to protect society against the offender . |
| 2 | Allow your filter media to become clogged or fail to pay attention to the use of correct media inside the filter and the worst case scenario of toxic water and dead fish can be the end result ! |
| 3 | Pieper tried and failed to get hold of the outfits to brief them and to gauge their reaction . |
| 4 | Too many people spend too much time looking for a reason , and fail to take advantage of the simple pleasures that life offers . ’ |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , a child with a roughly similar basic disability is a cause for acute anxiety to the parents , who either make excessive demands or over-protect , and fail to make use of the available care and educational facilities , rapidly rejecting the child altogether as unrewarding and unmanageable , such a child might find low intelligence a severe handicap . |
| 6 | Foreign Ministers from eight Arab countries party to the March Damascus Declaration [ see pp. 38116-17 ] — the six Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) states and Egypt and Syria — met in Kuwait City on July 15-16 but failed to reach agreement on the formation of a joint security force to defend Kuwait . |
| 7 | Substitutes have been developed in the past but failed to absorb water to the extent that ivory does . |