Example sentences of "had [adv] failed [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the fact that some patients had already failed to respond to tricyclics before entering the trial might have introduced a bias against this class of drugs . |
| 2 | The payment of this sum , however , was conditional on the Legislative Assembly approving new and unpopular tax laws which it had still failed to do by May 1991 . |
| 3 | The UN Security Council on March 31 approved Resolution 748 that if Libya on April 15 had still failed to comply with the UN resolution of Jan. 21 by handing over the two Lockerbie bombing suspects [ see p. 38743 ] , UN member-states would impose mandatory sanctions against Libya . |
| 4 | Something of the sort had been attempted by the late Victorian youth organizations , but these had been unable to reach the mass teen-age population ; and had also failed to agree on a coherent programme attractive to the different reforming interests . |
| 5 | Members of the policy and resources committee agreed the Government had also failed to take into account inflation , changes in grants and transitional arrangements . |
| 6 | The two sides had repeatedly failed to agree on the timing of a truce , a date for elections , and the ending of the one-party system . |
| 7 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 8 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 9 | They had consistently failed to push through reforms when governing alone . |