Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 5 | Firstly , the rice-salt solution failed to fulfil the second criterion , which demands that the materials needed for preparing the mixture should be affordable by all who need them : The actual components of the mixture were readily available , indeed this was one of the reasons which prompted BRAC to substitute rice for the less readily available gur . |
| 6 | Jerry Peel was pre-event favourite in this over-40s competition , but had to settle for third place behind Peter Black and Dave Barton after failing to read the last move . |
| 7 | Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma . |
| 8 | The lavender hedge , as if in sympathy with their views , failed to survive the first fen winter and Sprogg 's Cottage remained Sprogg 's . |
| 9 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 10 | Now they are concerned that they will fail to meet the next deadline of 72 hours for hard pressed posts by December 1994 . |
| 11 | By saying , " How odd " in response to McKendrick 's giving of his own name he fails to provide the second pair part of the adjacency pair ( Schegloff and Sacks 1973 ) which constitutes a greeting . |
| 12 | Although the business only just failed to meet the first target , it did become financially self-sustaining six months ahead of schedule . |
| 13 | Secondly , the rice-salt mixture also failed to fulfil the third criterion , which demands that the treatment should not conflict with any cultural beliefs . |
| 14 | NIGEL SHORT , England 's number one chess player , inexplicably failed to win the third match game of his World Chess Championship semi-final against Anatoly Karpov in Linares , Spain , last night . |
| 15 | If DOS fails to match the first word of your input to its list of internal commands , it will start looking on the hard disk for a COM , EXE or BAT file with that name . |
| 16 | Note was taken that Ned had failed to advise the twelfth floor of Barley 's drunken breakout after his return from Leningrad . |
| 17 | Unhappily , many of the 700 subscribers must have failed to deliver the second cash instalment and take up their copies when the book was published in 1765 . |