Example sentences of "[noun sg] fail [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |
| 2 | HUNDREDS OF heavy metal fans were left stranded at Derby Station last Saturday when British Rail failed to run the usual special train to London after the massive Donington Monsters of Rock festival . |
| 3 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 4 | Drought in the 1970s and again in 1983 brought four-wheel-drive Toyotas emblazoned with aid-agency logos but aid failed to alleviate the chronic poverty faced by the peasants who make up 90 per cent of the population . |
| 5 | In the event of the contractor failing to provide the necessary proof of payment where he is able to do so , the employer has the right to pay the subcontractor direct and deduct the equivalent sums from other payments to the contractor . |
| 6 | The first alternative fails to exploit the interdisciplinary nature of the subject . |
| 7 | In fact the rule fails to show the full complexity of the morpheme boundary constraint ; what appears to happen is that if another syllable intervenes raising and lengthening fails , unless that syllable is an inflectional morpheme . |
| 8 | This reasoning fails to meet the logical objection , identified some years earlier by Lord Devlin , that a ‘ purpose must exist in the mind . |
| 9 | In addition , central management failed to provide the clear leadership Griffiths had hoped for . |
| 10 | The 24-year-old local hero failed to find the superb form which saw him win the French Indoor Championships , as he lost his first match to Pete Sampras , 7–6 ( 7–5 ) , 7–6 ( 7–3 ) . |
| 11 | When my village failed to supply the requisite number of slaves from the Araba tribe of Yaruda to the west , the entire village was cleared by the blancs . |
| 12 | The Empingham return fails to mention the annual rent charged on a tenement of Mackworth 's for the finding of a torch at the second mass of Christmas Day , together with 5s. in ready money , which by 1545 , and with the consent of all interested parties , had been converted to a rent of 2s . |
| 13 | The recent correspondence about traffic problems and congestion fails to address the basic cause of most of the present chaos , which is the lack of consultation and co-operation by those responsible for the development of industry , office space , housing and schools , and public transport during the last 45 years . |
| 14 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 15 | A first bomb failed to destroy the imperial carriage , and the Tsar dismounted to investigate ( above ) . |
| 16 | A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al . |
| 17 | Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma . |
| 18 | Although the Chicago conference failed to resolve the basic difference in viewpoint between Britain and the USA , it did produce significant achievements . |
| 19 | That , he admitted on his return , summed up the gloom in the Irish camp as the national team failed to secure the top six finish they needed to win a place in next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 20 | That , he admitted on his return , summed up the gloom in the Irish camp as the national team failed to secure the top six finish they needed to win a place in next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 21 | The article fails to emphasise the two most important tenets of safe prescribing of aminoglycosides — namely , that they should be used only if clinically justified and that they should be stopped as soon as the patient 's condition permits . |
| 22 | The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily . |
| 23 | Even a firm Wall Street opening failed to smother the dearer money jitters . |
| 24 | Smaller injections led to a hypertrophy of the midbrain-hindbrain boundary region ( eight cases ; 12–15% of the injected embryos ) , whereas embryos that were injected with a high dose of the antibody failed to form the midbrain-hindbrain boundary ( 32 cases ; 50–60% of the injected embryos ) . |
| 25 | Although with treatment they made gains in growth at least comparable with other patients , 59% ( 10 of 17 ) followed up to maturity failed to reach the third centile for adult height . |
| 26 | As in the 29 other instances , an attempt by Congress to override the veto failed to muster the required two-thirds majority . |
| 27 | In the event of the sub-contractor failing to complete the initial work or failing to rectify any defective workmanship , the retention would not be released . |
| 28 | If DOS fails to match the first word of your input to its list of internal commands , it will start looking on the hard disk for a COM , EXE or BAT file with that name . |
| 29 | It was suggested that the DG method failed to represent the thematic organisation of the concordances analysed , as the categories that might have been chosen on an ’ intuitive ’ basis do not seem to attract any of the 500 most frequently appearing words of a test item . |
| 30 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |