Example sentences of "has so [adv] fail [to-vb] " 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 | There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 3 | The only freedom that the Government appear to understand is the freedom of the market even though it has so patently failed to deliver enough housing , child care or training . |
| 4 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 5 | CAP has so far failed to tackle the disadvantages or to help to secure the benefits of the few comparative advantages of the DRAs . |
| 6 | Microsoft 's attempts to take control of the US Windows-based home finance and small business accounts market has so far failed to unseat Intuit 's top selling package , Quicken 6 for DOS . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Soon too the horrors that Mr Hussein has promised but has so far failed to deliver may start to materialise : nerve gas , biological weapons , blazing oil fields . |
| 12 | The rumoured deal between NeXT and either Compaq or Dell that first broke last January ( UX No 368 ) has so far failed to materialise : observers claim it 's because Steve Jobs is demanding a big down payment from both firms even though he intends to shrinkwrap NeXTstep-on-Intel . |
| 13 | For the last two or three years , Chorus has been involved with Unisys Corp in a technology exchange that has so far failed to produce any significant deliveries . |
| 14 | UI , an $11m affair , wants to retain its input into X/Open , but unless it can come to an arrangement over some other form of membership which OSF has so far failed to secure , it is likely to turn in its cards at the end of the year . |