Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] failed [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. H. Bantock and David Holbrook , who are very concerned about exploitation by commercial culture of working-class pupils , have argued that the watered-down grammar school curriculum has failed to affect the lives of the great majority . |
| 2 | So far three hours and thirty minutes of football has failed to separate the two sides . |
| 3 | With a few obvious exceptions — most notably the highly successful chemical and pharmaceutical industries , which profit from Britain 's strength in laboratory science — industry has failed to attract the country 's top talent , which has preferred the City , the professions and academe . |
| 4 | But to these targets needs to be added an analysis of what must be achieved in order to obtain them , in terms of both the behaviour and attitude of consumers : and of more functional matters such as ( for example ) greatly improved distribution — to put it in what is , from the agency 's point of view , the most defensive way possible , it is too easy to blame the advertising when the sales force has failed to achieve the necessary levels of retail distribution to support the required sales . |
| 5 | If large-scale research has failed to provide the guidance we need , others have used direct experience and informed ‘ hunch ’ to give us help in serving a particular age group . |
| 6 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 7 | Nourse J in the Chancery Division agreed with the finding of the Special Commissioners and felt that the Inland Revenue had failed to see the wood for the trees ( p457e ) . |
| 8 | Massive American economic aid had failed to strengthen the French position . |
| 9 | All was not trouble-free , and the line failed its Board of Trade inspection on July 29th , not for any defect of the electrical system , but because the contractor had failed to lay the track properly to gauge . |
| 10 | The Guardian of Dec. 29 reported that Wang had " been under a cloud " ever since the police force had failed to control the nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 11 | However , on Aug. 24 , Gorbachev announced his resignation as CPSU general secretary and said that as the CPSU Central Committee had failed to condemn the coup , it should " take the difficult but honourable decision to dissolve itself " . |
| 12 | The defendant then complained that the trial judge had failed to direct the jury adequately with regard to the defendant 's previous good character in that he failed to point out that this is primarily relevant to the question of credibility . |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal and quashing the order , that the judge had failed to specify the fees to be disallowed and had adopted an inappropriate procedure ; and that , in any event , there had been no unreasonable act or omission capable of founding an order under section 19A of the Act ( post , pp. 665G — 666B , G ) . |
| 14 | But it was also clear that the governmental machine had failed to revive the economy or reform social institutions in the 1950s . |
| 15 | As I have said , the European Community has failed to produce the legislation under which we could do that . |
| 16 | An investigation has failed to discover the cause of an epidemic which struck more than sixty people and closed a school . |
| 17 | An investigation has failed to discover the cause of an epidemic which struck more than sixty people . : |
| 18 | The importance of acceptance is that once it has taken place , the buyer can no longer reject the goods , claim that the seller has failed to perform the contract , and refuse to pay the price . |
| 19 | Again and again , SAVE has found the Department of Transport has failed to recognize the value , in historic and aesthetic terms , of country house parkland . |
| 20 | Where a seller was not in possession of a licence which could be transferred to the buyer at the date of completion of the contract it was decided that , the seller having failed to execute the contract , the purchaser could repudiate it : Day v. Luhke ( 1868 ) L.R. 5 Eq . |
| 21 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet on Sept. 11 , Ryzhkov admitted that the working group had failed to synthesise the rival plans . |
| 22 | They claimed that to date diplomatic , political and humanitarian efforts by the international community had failed to stop the aggression against them and had done little to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population . |
| 23 | Once again , despite the smoke-screen , the hon. Gentleman has failed to answer the question to which everyone in Scotland wants an answer . |
| 24 | Maybe if he could delay a little longer , Springfield would discover his sweep had failed to capture the ringleader and send men in to flush him out . |
| 25 | The court had failed to obtain the crucial testimony of four South African policemen due to the absence of an extradition treaty between Namibia and South Africa . |
| 26 | Cripps and his supporters objected that the Labour leadership had failed to absorb the lessons of 1931 and were not Prepared to deal with the inevitable " sabotage " of the Labour programme by capitalist interests . |
| 27 | Norwegians are proud of their management of fish stocks : the number of cod and herring in the Barents Sea is rising , whereas the EC 's fisheries policy has failed to prevent the depletion of stocks in its waters . |
| 28 | HEALTH Secretary Virginia Bottomley 's bedside manner has failed to capture the hearts of the British public , an opinion poll suggested today . |
| 29 | Indeed the European parliamentary resolution is specific on that point and I believe the boundary commission has failed to take the opportunity to exercise that requirement . |
| 30 | The Citizen 's Charter has failed to capture the imagination , although 18 detailed charters — ranging from the NHS to the Inland Revenue — have been published . |