Example sentences of "[adv] fail [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke on the evils of race and colour prejudice and he rarely failed to mention the issue of slavery . |
| 2 | A binary opposition , penis versus no penis , rather obviously fails to capture the reality of sexual difference . |
| 3 | It wrings higher performance per clock than anybody and it has not broken compatibility the way Intel intends to do with the P6 and the way IBM has done with the Rios and its subset , the PowerPC , having apparently failed to scale the thing down to the desktop and having instead been forced to strip out 40 instructions and substitute a software emulator . |
| 4 | Yet over half of the disabled people being cared for in Glendinning 's ( 1992a ) study had apparently failed to claim the attendance allowance when they first became eligible , thereby potentially affecting their carers ' benefit entitlement as well : |
| 5 | He disputed suggestions that his own redistributive mock Budget at the outset of the election campaign may have contributed to the party 's defeat and expressed concern that those who would have gained from it had apparently failed to heed the message . |
| 6 | The inquiry will look at why a Civil Aviation Authority directive and British Aerospace alerts apparently failed to prevent the accident . |
| 7 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 8 | In the short term the speech not only failed to accelerate the coming of reform , but even postponed it . |
| 9 | As a result of the sterling area policy , Britain not only failed to deliver the goods but actively and blatantly exploited colonial producers . |
| 10 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 11 | Napoleon and the French in Spain entirely failed to grasp the significance of this popular movement . |
| 12 | In seeking to solve this second problem of semantic exactitude , he not only fails to solve the problem of making meanings plain to the public but actually makes that problem a good deal more complex . |
| 13 | When , however , a sentence " has time " to introduce the supernumerary information contained in a non-restrictive clause , but apparently fails to introduce the information on which the definite article relies , despite the definiteness being felt important enough to deserve an intensifier , then the sentence has a dislocated feel to it and the very is left dangling ; this is the case of sentence ( 23 ) . |
| 14 | What we now need to ask is has the time arrived er for this measure to begin to be acceptable by the Home Office , it would be nice if there was a just a little indication er as I 'm er proceeding through er this measure from the minister at the despatch box , that the time was now right for this er particular proposal er which was not anything that was voted against er on second reading but merely failed to overcome the hurdle of getting a closure when by seventy eight votes to nil er it was carried except that carrying was not sufficient in order arrive at a closure so that the measure could move in the committee . |
| 15 | Several of the original cast were written out within months of the launch , and there were many other changes — but all failed to make the soap a winner . |
| 16 | Several of the original cast were written out within months of the launch , and there were many other changes — but all failed to make the soap a winner . |
| 17 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 18 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 19 | Er and thirdly I think I 've covered that already , it 's it perhaps fails to provide the certainty which we the development plan system is supposed now to . |
| 20 | In the end there was long and controversial litigation , which nevertheless failed to establish the rights that Kagan sought . |
| 21 | Green 's memorandum reflected the WEA 's dissatisfaction with its original 1932 representation on the RAC in that although the District was recognised by the Board of Education as the most important providing body for Chapter III courses in the region , it had less than 25% of the committee 's membership which thus failed to recognise the WEA 's national or regional status . |
| 22 | South Africa mixed a couple of purple patches with several black ones during the tournament but , generally , exceeded expectations in just failing to reach the final of the World Cup . |
| 23 | It has polarised popular opinion such that sick people tend to use only conventional medicine or complementary medicine , thus failing to reap the benefits of knowledge which could help them . |
| 24 | However , existing GIS 's largely fail to exploit the possibilities for statistical analysis of the data which they display . |
| 25 | Staleness can set in , so that one partner or both cease to be inventive , settle for the familiar and thus fail to move the partnership along . |
| 26 | But to many of his contemporaries , adaptation was not the central problem , and natural selection thus failed to answer the questions that were uppermost in their minds . |
| 27 | T2 follows this trend but somehow fails to hit the mark due to poorly designed sequences that , while attractive , are tedious and unexciting . |
| 28 | The Labour Party utterly failed to grasp the point , let alone the enormity , of what the Government had done . |
| 29 | Unless there is insistence upon recovery through Narcotics Anonymous , the recommended use of Naltrexone thus fails to understand the nature of addictive disease . |
| 30 | Ministers have generally failed to grasp the implications of Mrs Thatcher 's conversion to the cause of the environment . |