Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 2 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 3 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 4 | Lynagh , helped off just before the interval , failed to score for the first time in 60 Tests , but new goal-kicker Marty Roebuck was cool as he amassed 17 points from three penalties and four conversions . |
| 5 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 6 | David Evans , the stand-off who plays centre for Wales , and Andrew Booth , his scrum-half partner , virtually sealed the result in the second half simply by appreciating what the Newport pair , David Phillips and Nigel Callard , had failed to grasp in the first — that kicking downwind is as good a way as any of gaining huge chunks of ground to keep the pressure on . |
| 7 | But although there was relief at this success , it is significant that Cambridge have failed to score during the first 45 minutes of their last eight games . |
| 8 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |