Example sentences of "so [adv] fail [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 2 | CAP has so far failed to tackle the disadvantages or to help to secure the benefits of the few comparative advantages of the DRAs . |
| 3 | After nearly seven hours deliberation they 've so far failed to reach a unanimous verdict . |
| 4 | Neighbourhood Watch vigilantes have so far failed to apprehend the culprit . |
| 5 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 6 | And yet , in spite of all his efforts and ingenuity , of huge expenditures of labour and money , he has so far failed to exterminate a single insect species . |
| 7 | Investigations have so far failed to identify the cause . |
| 8 | It completed all stages of the legislative process in the House of Lords but , being a private member 's bill , has so far failed to obtain a Second Reading in the House of Commons , despite cross-party support . |
| 9 | Apple has been successful selling to schools in other countries , but has so far failed to make an impact in Japan ( apart from selling to private schools ) . |
| 10 | But back to Worcestershire , where Moody got two early Championship hundreds in a summer so far restricted for him by shin and ankle-ligament problems : where the worries over Dilley 's Achilles tendon and knee wo n't go away ; where Hick 's form remains enigmatic ; where left-hander Adam Seymour , the Millfield boy who switched from Essex — at appeared an astute and logical career move for him — has so far failed to make an impact on the banks of the Severn . |
| 11 | He had always wanted to do something creative , but had so far failed to find a suitable medium — then he discovered photography . |
| 12 | From the standpoint of constructivism , the reason why associationist-representational theories so spectacularly fail to capture the essence of thought is that they ignore the fact that every thought , like every action , has , at some level , a purpose . |