Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite Savimbi 's Nov. 17 commitment , UNITA failed to attend the multiparty talks on Nov. 21 , describing the meeting as a " circus " and citing fears for the security of its officials as the reason for its absence . |
| 2 | With one eye on the next deal and the other on the one after that , its grandees failed to spot the long-term slide in profitability , let alone reverse it . |
| 3 | John ( 1932 ) found that hypertension was only more prevalent in diabetics who were over 40 years of age , while another study failed to confirm an excess prevalence ( Sherrill , 1933 ) . |
| 4 | Though his batsmen dominated most of the final day , they failed to silence a grumbling chorus . |
| 5 | Two doctors who treated Shaunagh at Gordon Barracks ' Garrison Medical Centre at Hamelyn , failed to diagnose a punctured lung even though she was fighting for breath and in serious pain . |
| 6 | If physical integrity is so highly valued , would it be inappropriate to make it clear that an offence would be committed by any normal adult who failed to see an obvious risk of physical harm to another ? |
| 7 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 8 | Auguste failed to see the hidden tensions and passions behind these simple manoeuvres ; to him it only signified that the banquet had acquired a reality . |
| 9 | Prowling on through the foul open area , wrapped in such pleasant fantasies , I almost failed to see the furtive movement on the edge of my vision . |
| 10 | You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting . |
| 11 | The inquiry found he twice failed to signal a false start . |
| 12 | The inquiry found he twice failed to signal a false start . |
| 13 | Senior Jockey Club stewards will today decide whether to summon 57-year-old part-timer Ken Evans before a disciplinary committee after the inquiry found he twice failed to signal a false start . |
| 14 | It had retained no suitable system of books and records , failed to implement an appropriate system of internal controls and it had lacked appropriate segregation of functions . |
| 15 | The next day he called a halt to the anti-Suchinda rallies , but warned that they would be resumed if the government failed to implement the constitutional changes . |
| 16 | It is alleged that Guinness Brewing Worldwide failed to provide a safe procedure for work near high voltage electrical equipment so that non-employees were put at risk . |
| 17 | But here as elsewhere , though the emphasis on cost and utility was helpful in curbing bureaucratic empire-builders , it failed to provide a full definition of the public service which should be provided . |
| 18 | If the Church of England , which many preferred to call simply ‘ the Establishment ’ or , copying the Scots , ‘ the Episcopalian Church ’ violated its ‘ contract ’ and failed to provide a Protestant religion for England , then the Nonconformists , cooperating through the Council , would willingly take up the contract and deliver the appropriate religion . |
| 19 | But these extensive discussions failed to provide a common area of agreement , mainly because of divergent national interests and unfavourable economic developments such as inflation , recession , and the oil crisis . |
| 20 | iv A family has received £400 in compensation after a coach holiday firm failed to provide the smoke-free transport specified in the brochure . |
| 21 | This was misplaced , they claim , for the franchisors failed to deliver stock , failed to provide the requisite level of back-up and consistently over-estimated the level of sales that franchisees might expect . |
| 22 | Roads , communications and power were government dominated monopolies , and failed to provide the necessary service . |
| 23 | In addition , central management failed to provide the clear leadership Griffiths had hoped for . |
| 24 | Mayer was trying to console Gilbert on the day of what should have been his wedding to Garbo , but when the bride failed to appear the forsaken groom fled to the men 's room where Mayer found him crying . |
| 25 | A post mortem examination failed to establish a definite cause of death and the results of further forensic tests are awaited . |
| 26 | They failed to catch the popular imagination in the way the inhabitants of Coronation Street , Albert Square and Ramsay Street have done . |
| 27 | We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen . |
| 28 | Mr Bill Loveluck-Edwards , voted best-dressed solicitor in town two years ago , failed to meet the high standards required by the bench in Bridgend , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 29 | While no operational difficulties were reported during SeaDocs ' experiment , and while the fees per registration fluctuated between only $300 and $500 , SeaDocs failed to attract a sufficient number of traders and financial institutions to survive . |
| 30 | — A Brighton politician on why a college course on Margaret Thatcher failed to attract a single student . |