Example sentences of "had failed [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 2 | The doubters had failed to take into account Alcock 's remarkable visual acuity , but photographs taken at professional observatories , and by space probes , have verified the details of his observations . |
| 3 | A statement said the TCCB had failed to take into account Lamb 's previously unblemished record and ‘ outstanding service and contribution to English cricket . ’ |
| 4 | 223 ) that the visitor had failed to take into account relevant matters or taken into account irrelevant matters or had reached an irrational conclusion . |
| 5 | The UN official alluded to in the Independent was named in Le Monde of Dec. 21 , in a report which also quoted Manz as saying that the UN had failed to take into account the complexity of Minurso 's task and had allocated " neither enough money , nor enough time " . |
| 6 | Before the Court of Appeal submissions were made on the company 's behalf that the Crown Court had failed to take into account the lack of gravity of the offences and had over-emphasised both the company 's ability to pay a substantial fine and the possibility of an accident occurring . |
| 7 | The name is supposed to come from their usage as cool stores for butter that farmers travelling the pass had failed to sell at market . |
| 8 | But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) . |
| 9 | The judges decided 7-0 against Mr Santos on the grounds that the party he had joined at the last minute in order to stand , the little-known Brazilian Municipalist Party which was founded by Pentecostal preachers , had failed to register in time . |
| 10 | King Edward had used them in Wales as war dogs but later had them killed because , in their blood lust , they had failed to distinguish between friend and foe . |