Example sentences of "[subord] it fail [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merchant bank or broker will charge a commission for procuring the subscribers and may agree to subscribe itself for the balance if it fails to procure sufficient interest from its clients . |
| 2 | Considering that NFS version 3 , which was a major re-do , is sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust because it failed to garner popular support , there will probably be some reluctance to call this puppy by the same name . |
| 3 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 4 | Many comments contended that LIFO is conceptually flawed because it fails to assign current costs to inventories held and so distorts the balance sheet . |
| 5 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 6 | Counterpoint of the fugato or canonic type was used as accompaniment in Baroque times , but has now largely fallen out of use , as it fails to express individual mood or atmosphere . |