Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] failed [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Bottomley later dismissed suggestions that she had failed to grasp the nettle . |
| 2 | However , if your swing clearly does n't work because you have failed to grasp the basic fundamentals , no amount of ‘ confidence ’ will remedy the situation . |
| 3 | ‘ We have sown the seeds , but we have failed to reap the harvest . |
| 4 | When the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee met in September 1956 , Vo Nguyen Giap read out a long list of errors , some quite devastating : ‘ We have failed to realise the necessity of uniting with the middle-level peasants . |
| 5 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 6 | On economic development , we have failed to pursue the policies of partnership between Government and industry which are commonplace elsewhere in Europe and which involve not only management but trade unions and workers ' representatives in a much more positive way than anything that has happened under this Government . |
| 7 | ‘ As an industry we have failed to meet the needs of savers and investors , ’ admits Unit Trust Association chairman Barry Bateman . |
| 8 | I wonder if his absence is the reason we have failed to win the last two games . |
| 9 | Their membership was low and they had failed to organize the immigrants from the centre and south who increasingly provided the majority of semi-skilled and unskilled labour in the industrial north . |
| 10 | At the end of 1987 they had failed to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup and then played two drawn series against India and Pakistan , in the latter case coming close to defeat before squeezing a two-wicket victory to square the rubber . |
| 11 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 12 | On Feb. 2 , in accordance with the recommendation of the Multi-Party Democratic General Elections Commission of the Union of Myanma , the SLORC ordered the abolition of 17 political parties , on the grounds that they had failed to provide the Commission with details of their party structures and membership . |
| 13 | Mr Oak writes : ‘ I feel that members ’ attention should be brought to the following : ‘ The Durlia Club have not paid their rent since July 1990 ; they have failed to insure the building against fire , which is a serious breach of their lease ; they have failed to keep the building in reasonable repair following a fire in April 1991 . |
| 14 | ‘ It is a major disappointment that they have failed to take the necessary initiatives . ’ |
| 15 | How much better in the long run for companies , auditors and regulation generally if auditors would have the courage to make timely representations aimed at a general ruling , in these circumstances , assuming that they have failed to persuade the client not to proceed and that the grounds for an audit qualification are uncertain . |
| 16 | Those who are climbing the career ladder fast may use alcohol as a booster to help them to achieve , and those who recognize that they have failed to reach the top may also turn to alcohol , in an attempt to bolster their failing self-image . |
| 17 | They have failed to endorse the Australian move and are refusing to contribute to the compensation fund . |
| 18 | There is nothing more infuriating and destructive than having the discussion dominated by those who have not got a proper grasp of the subject because they have failed to read the material provided . |
| 19 | Mr Oak writes : ‘ I feel that members ’ attention should be brought to the following : ‘ The Durlia Club have not paid their rent since July 1990 ; they have failed to insure the building against fire , which is a serious breach of their lease ; they have failed to keep the building in reasonable repair following a fire in April 1991 . |
| 20 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 21 | But in seeking the right to renationalise the Scottish water industry , should that be privatised , they have failed to address the implications of that policy . |
| 22 | They feel that the new aid has failed , or that they have failed to find the magic touch in using it . |
| 23 | Sadly , it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board . |
| 24 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 25 | According to article 3 of the Swiss civil code , ‘ no person can plead bona fides in any case where he has failed to exercise the degree of care required by the circumstances ’ . |
| 26 | Although Mr Kinnock has modernised Labour and ditched many of its vote-losing socialist policies , he has failed to convince the country to put its trust in him despite the country suffering the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 27 | It is also that it has failed to regain the support of the working class — old and new — that it lost in 1979 . |
| 28 | Whether the UK 's proposal will be accepted is in some doubt , not least because it has failed to engender the support of other Member States . |
| 29 | In many ways it has failed to realise the changes in British society and has had problems in providing a service for ethnic minorities . |
| 30 | ‘ It has failed to debate the key question of who should pay for the clean-up of contaminated drinking water . ’ |