Example sentences of "[Wh det] failed [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 2 | The Barcelona rising , which failed to enlist the vital support of the CNT , was quickly suppressed , but that in Asturias lasted a fortnight until finally crushed , with considerable blood-shed , by Spanish and Moorish troops commanded by General Francisco Franco . |
| 3 | THE DEATH OF THE Lotus Elan was the result of poor sales which failed to recoup the massive investment made in the car , according to former GM Europe boss Bob Eaton . |
| 4 | The elections were contested by 15 parties , four of which failed to win a single seat ( Kaset Seri , Ruam Palang Mai , United Democratic Party and Thong Tin Kao Na ( Rural Progressive ) ) . |
| 5 | By deepening the partisan rift , the Thomas affair also cast its shadow over the Senate 's attempt to override the President , which failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority by two votes on Oct. 16 . |