Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
2 | Although the Communists had greatly modified their policy they failed to persuade the leadership of the Labour Party to make any concessions on the United Front or affiliation proposals . |
3 | They failed to persuade the electorate . |
4 | Their daughters found Charlie Fox , 63 , and wife Tess , 53 , shot at their home in Co Tyrone after they failed to answer the phone . |
5 | Of course they were and they failed , and they failed to penetrate the defence |
6 | They failed to reach a consensus and in April and May submitted separate reports . |
7 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
8 | If they failed to reach the fuses in time , they 'd be killed with the rest on the wall , and only a little earlier than the men of both sides who would open fire , without doubt , claiming treachery . |
9 | In establishing four oral rehydration packet production sites in Bangladesh , they failed to reach the majority of the Bangladeshi people owing to the inefficiencies of the production sites , the inherent inadequacies of the Bangladeshi transport network and the rural nature of the vast majority of the population . |
10 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
11 | They failed to appreciate the fact that the G'bai turned it into an island . |
12 | Nevertheless , they failed to stop a deluge of complaints about the collection 's shortcomings and María Corral 's personal tastes . |
13 | But they failed to stop the accident because staff were poorly trained . |
14 | None of this lot aches because they failed to change the world . |
15 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
16 | At least two notable cantata composers , the Roman Giovanni Felice Sances ( c. 1600–1679 ) and Pietro ( Antonio ) Cesti ( 1623–69 ) , far more famous for his operas , ended their careers in the Imperial Chapel at Vienna , but they failed to transplant the chamber cantata there . |
17 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
18 | Even then they failed to catch a glimpse of the plane , it had been immediately engulfed in a fifty-foot-high curtain of water and spray . |
19 | However , they failed to complete the preparation of this before they lost office in 1970 . |
20 | But in the Dr McKenna Cup against both Monaghan and Tyrone they failed to keep the momentum going . |
21 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
22 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
23 | The action was brought against the police on the grounds that they failed to inform the prison authorities of the deceased 's suicidal tendencies . |
24 | The attacks caused localized damage and injuries , and up to three elderly Israeli women suffocated when they failed to remove the filter caps from their gas masks . |
25 | Before his death , the Dragoons visited the farm ; they searched all of the outbuildings and then the house but , as if by a miracle , they failed to enter the room in which ‘ The Prophet ’ lay dying . |
26 | Because there was still enough runway space to go around , they failed to attract the airlines . |
27 | Whereas the DoT almost ‘ directed ’ the BGA to take some action , they failed to direct the CAA , to co-operate ’ . |
28 | These loans , at rates varying between 10 per cent and 18 per cent , were useful for helping the Crown over its successive liquidity crises , but , since none was for more than twelve months and some were for less , they failed to lighten the Crown 's burden in the long run . |
29 | They failed to break the deadlock from two well hit out short corners but East Antrim strikers Colin Black and Gary Hamilton explored every avenue in search of gold which never came . |
30 | FOREST 'S dismal season reached crisis point as they failed to beat a keeper who only this summer was struggling on the dole . |