Example sentences of "it failed [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peristalsis was considered ‘ failed ’ either if there was no contraction wave at all , or if it failed to traverse the entire length of the oesophagus , or if a simultaneous contraction occurred . |
| 2 | Though it failed to define the new Socialist Party 's financial needs , the party 's holiday homes , hotels and hunting lodges were obvious targets for re-nationalisation . |
| 3 | It failed to anticipate the Korean war . |
| 4 | The bourgeoisie as a class found enormous difficulty in combining getting and spending in a morally satisfactory manner , just as it failed to solve the equivalent material problem , how to secure a succession of equally dynamic and capable businessmen within the same family , a fact which increased the role of daughters , who could introduce new blood into the business complex . |
| 5 | Thus , when in November 1947 a resolution was put to the United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA ) Committee for Political and Security Questions , calling for a reaffirmation of the December 1946 resolution , it failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for adoption . |
| 6 | A bill to extend President 's rule in the troubled state of Punjab collapsed in the Lok Sabha on Oct. 1 when it failed to secure the required majority [ for previous extension of President 's rule in April 1990 see p. 37377 ] . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in the exercise of its inherent jurisdiction the court would not order a medical practitioner to treat his patient in a manner contrary to his clinical judgment and professional duty ; that the proper approach , pending any final decision , was for the court to consider the options available to it in exercising its inherent powers and to make such order as best served the child 's true interests , and it would be wrong to apply the principles governing the grant of interlocutory injunctions in civil proceedings ; that , further , the judge 's order was defective in that it failed to specify the precise requirements imposed on the health authority and to take sufficient account of that authority 's distribution of resources in its patient care ; and that , accordingly , the order would be set aside ( post , pp. 516B–G , 517D–F , 518E–F , H — 519C , E–H , 520B–C , E–F ) . |
| 8 | The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) . |
| 9 | The Labour party possessed a utopian ethic of socialism but it failed to develop the pragmatic programme either to alter the capitalist state which it inherited or to reform it from within . |
| 10 | ‘ This does n't apply , ’ as the teenage Amis remarked in his army barracks , abandoning Marxism because it failed to fit the real world . |
| 11 | It failed to build the essential trust needed to form an effective lobby . |
| 12 | It failed to produce the necessary democratic and economic reforms needed to pacify and modernize the country . |
| 13 | Although successful , it failed to change the popular belief that ‘ Condy 's Crystals ’ are potassium permanganate . |