Example sentences of "and fail [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't stowed his chainsword across his back , and Ace watched aghast as he swung himself too far , reached out with his left hand , and failed to grasp the side of the girder . |
| 2 | Most experts agree Karpov is favourite but at 41 and having been World Champion and failed to regain the title in four matches with Kasparov , his enthusiasm must be waning . |
| 3 | What is important about this case is that in factual circumstances similar to those before this House the plaintiffs contended for the principle relied upon by Mr. Gardiner and failed to persuade the judge that such a principle existed . |
| 4 | The nation looked on and failed to notice the difference . |
| 5 | It was quite dark when Breeze let herself into the house , and for a second she was dazzled by the electric light , and failed to see the suitcases in the hall . |
| 6 | The last heard of Gert was in 1943 when he tried and failed to join the RA F. Bloomsbury House urged him to settle for the Pioneers . |
| 7 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 8 | Montgomerie hit a 3-wood to the 200-yard fourth and failed to reach the target . |
| 9 | the checking procedures were inadequate and failed to reveal the design deficiency . |
| 10 | He said the figure included people who no longer needed treatment , those who had gone private and failed to inform the health authority , and those who were reassessed . |
| 11 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 12 | The exchange , the CFTC said , had failed to notify the agency of serious deficiencies in Stotler 's financial records as early as 1987 , failed to enforce its own capital requirements , and failed to tell the CFTC that Stotler was undercapitalised by as much as $1.1m between October 1989 and April 1990 . |
| 13 | Both have had their chances and failed to produce the goods . |
| 14 | One after another , men paid their money , swung the mallet and failed to ring the bell at the top of the standard . |
| 15 | Civil war was averted , but while the 120-strong squadron of cavalry were able to hold back the rioters in Aÿ , they were unwilling to engage their fellow citizens in open conflict and failed to prevent the mob from sacking and burning the premises of Ayala , Bissinger and Deutz & Geldermann in Aÿ . |
| 16 | And if you have experienced nothing but a television culture and failed to learn the skills of using books effectively , you will not be able to browse and are unlikely to find the written word sufficiently engaging to hold your attention . |
| 17 | In economic terms the truth of the matter was that Western capitalism had underinvested , overspent ( as one does at a party ) and failed to keep the machine in running order . |
| 18 | After his father 's death in 1900 , Pearse became head of his family and , along with his brother , tried and failed to keep the family firm prosperous . |
| 19 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 20 | That proposal was opposed , however , by the USA , the United Kingdom , France and other Western delegations and failed to win the consensus required for CSCE decisions . |
| 21 | The Workers ' Party ( PT ) , whose leader Luís Inácio da Silva ( " Lula " ) had come second to Collor in the December 1989 run-off presidential elections [ see pp. 37117-18 ] , made significant gains , but lost control of the local government of Sao Paulo and failed to win the mayoralty in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 22 | Six children from the Gambia ( age 16–29 m ) who had persistent diarrhoea ( more than three loose stools/day , persisting for two to 52 weeks and a mean of 12 weeks ) and giardiasis and failed to clear the infection even after treatment ( metronidazole 25 mg/kg/day for seven days ) and at follow up a year later were included in this study . |
| 23 | Labour tried and failed to make the election a referendum on these changes . |
| 24 | Even so , he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740–1 . |
| 25 | Transition fields are often thought of as weak but predominantly dipolar , as would occur if the dynamo were inactive and failing to regenerate the field . |
| 26 | The British believed that Washington was underestimating and failing to grasp the nature of their economic problems . |
| 27 | The Home Secretary and the Minister of State must face up to two facts : first , that their party is guilty of creating the conditions for crime and failing to tackle the root causes of crime ; and , secondly , that the police do not have the tools for the job . |
| 28 | Acting through a second firm of lawyers , Jean-Jacques Walter has taken out proceedings against the French State in the European courts of Strasbourg and Luxemburg for violating the European Convention of Human Rights and failing to apply the Treaty of Rome . |
| 29 | It is also possible that as teachers we assess bilingual children 's mathematical ability without reference to their first language , again creating lower expectations and failing to recognise the pupils ' full abilities by confusing fluency in English with mathematical competence . |
| 30 | Stereotyping can be dangerous when it allows us to distance ourselves from others , and to fail to see the individual through the distorting lens of our own prejudice . |