Example sentences of "[pers pn] failed [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 2 | The subject attracted no interest , and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion . |
| 3 | League high-flyers Academicals lost 3-2 at Old Xaverians and Cabin came unstuck when they failed to convert two penalties in a 2-0 setback at St. Aloysius . |
| 4 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 5 | These changes have been made because , when the original Regulations were drafted , they failed to require non-qualifying trusts to hold any shares at all . |
| 6 | They failed to invest and invest efficiently on a large enough scale ; they failed to develop sufficient numbers of new products and they failed to raise productivity rapidly enough . |
| 7 | The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process . |
| 8 | Though it captured much of the dynamic of British and American FDI in the pre-oil shock world , it failed to anticipate subsequent developments in corporate strategy or indeed what had motivated investors from other countries . |
| 9 | THE Princess of Wales 's favourite touring ballet company , The London City Ballet of which she is patron , is to close in July claiming it failed to receive promised Arts Council grants . |
| 10 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 11 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 12 | FCA of who had been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to carry out a review of its compliance procedures in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.09 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to warn clients of the extent to which they may be exposed to risk in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.32 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 , when the firm gave advice to clients such that , if acted upon , it would result in commission being received , it failed to inform those clients of that position in writing in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.47 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to issue engagement letters in accordance with the terms of the Regulation and having been in breach of Investment Business Regulation 2.60 in that in Camberley between 6 October 1989 and 22 August 1991 the firm failed to ensure that it had adequate records in accordance with the terms of the Regulation was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs . |
| 13 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 14 | The paper was relaunched in a new format as the Sun , but it failed to win up-market readers , while the old loyalists were put off . |
| 15 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 16 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 17 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 18 | He failed to interest American industrialists and in 1886 came to England , thereafter the centre of his working life . |
| 19 | Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section . |
| 20 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 21 | Further , he failed to get satisfactory answers to questions which he asked pupils about the work in hand and why they were doing certain things . |