Example sentences of "[vb past] fail [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In London , however , he had failed to broach a central issue . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had failed to provide a safe system . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | The trading standards officers claimed that the DTI had failed to obtain a true picture because they had counted only children who had required hospital treatment . |
| 10 | He bowled for 23 overs and looked an old head , certainly not one who had failed to play a single championship match last season . |
| 11 | The allegation of negligence was that the defendant had failed to observe a foetal abnormality during pregnancy and the plaintiff had been denied the possibility of an abortion . |
| 12 | The two major causes of this were first , increasing doubts about the validity of Darwin 's ideas of natural and sexual selection ( Darwin had failed to produce a satisfactory theory of heredity ) , and second , new empirical research findings and observable changes in the position of women , particularly the increasing numbers of single women in the labour force . |
| 13 | According to ‘ Mozzarella ’ Mannoia , a Mafia informer , Mr Calvi was murdered by an Italian mafioso because he had failed to repay a large Mafia investment of dirty money . |
| 14 | The condemned man had failed to eat a hearty breakfast , and lunch had consisted of two tacos and three cups of coffee . |
| 15 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 16 | Martinho 's resignation was seen as representing the development of a long-term crisis within a party which had failed to find a suitable replacement for its original leader and whose popular support had been reduced to below 5 per cent of the vote . |