Example sentences of "have fail [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes you have to fail to become a winner and we did with League Cup final defeats to Leeds and Swindon . |
| 2 | When the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee met in September 1956 , Vo Nguyen Giap read out a long list of errors , some quite devastating : ‘ We have failed to realise the necessity of uniting with the middle-level peasants . |
| 3 | The following pages reveal the extent to which , in the economy , in the environment , in education , and in local services , successive British governments have failed to realise the opportunities of the past decades . |
| 4 | The report , The Lost Land , says that Department of the Environment ( DoE ) statistics have failed to record the loss of 690 square miles of countryside , an area larger than Greater London , since the second world war . |
| 5 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 6 | The Government have failed to take the opportunities before them . |
| 7 | Clinic surveys in Scotland , America , and Germany have failed to confirm an association but have been criticised for flaws in study design . |
| 8 | It would appear that the Trust have failed to include the notice in the machine as a term of the contract ( Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking ) . |
| 9 | Does the Secretary of State realise that his comments have failed to persuade the House that the policy that he and the Government are operating is right ? |
| 10 | How much better in the long run for companies , auditors and regulation generally if auditors would have the courage to make timely representations aimed at a general ruling , in these circumstances , assuming that they have failed to persuade the client not to proceed and that the grounds for an audit qualification are uncertain . |
| 11 | STRONG objections from residents have failed to stop a house at Lagmore Road in Dunmurry being used as a youth club . |
| 12 | So far Soviet officials have failed to link the notion of some form of neutralisation of Afghanistan specifically with understandings on the neutrality of the states around it . |
| 13 | The Green Party has published a survey which claims that nearly all councils have failed to implement the law on air pollution . |
| 14 | but also notes that some such as Young ( 1974 ) have argued that geographers have failed to realize the potential of contributing to human ecology because they were overconcerned with environmental determinism . |
| 15 | Those who are climbing the career ladder fast may use alcohol as a booster to help them to achieve , and those who recognize that they have failed to reach the top may also turn to alcohol , in an attempt to bolster their failing self-image . |
| 16 | Contrary to popular myth and the Government 's public relations machine , you were among around 30 million people in Britain who have failed to join the crusade of popular capitalism which swept through the 1980s . |
| 17 | Contrary to popular myth and the government 's public relations machine , you were among around 30 million people in Britain who have failed to join the crusade of popular capitalism which swept through the 1980s . |
| 18 | ‘ We have sown the seeds , but we have failed to reap the harvest . |
| 19 | Values education is largely bound up with behaviour , and teachers blame the lowered expectations in behaviour on the emotional troubles imported from home — and on parents who have failed to draw the line on behaviour for their offspring . |
| 20 | Mr Oak writes : ‘ I feel that members ’ attention should be brought to the following : ‘ The Durlia Club have not paid their rent since July 1990 ; they have failed to insure the building against fire , which is a serious breach of their lease ; they have failed to keep the building in reasonable repair following a fire in April 1991 . |
| 21 | MINISTERS HAVE failed to find a way of fending off Conservative Party conference pressure for extra funds to ease the introduction of the poll tax , it emerged yesterday . |
| 22 | Fatalism is the order of the day — and if your best efforts have failed to find a job , it 's understandable that you might feel fatalistic . |
| 23 | But in seeking the right to renationalise the Scottish water industry , should that be privatised , they have failed to address the implications of that policy . |
| 24 | Libraries have failed to recognise the change in the information-seeking patterns of the individual , and so the market share of library services has decreased . |
| 25 | Initial enquiries by the police have failed to locate the car and they have made an urgent appeal to the general public to also check their vehicles . |
| 26 | Other studies have failed to show a relation between serum cholesterol and colorectal carcinoma . |
| 27 | ‘ As an industry we have failed to meet the needs of savers and investors , ’ admits Unit Trust Association chairman Barry Bateman . |
| 28 | The two bodies ' first annual reports to the Department of Trade and Industry reveal an alarmingly high proportion of registered firms which have failed to meet the standards set by audit regulation . |
| 29 | Most of the recommendations have been implemented , but they too have failed to end the controversies that the reorganisations of the 1970s provoked . |
| 30 | These leaders have tried the forceful suppression of such activities , but inevitably have failed to maintain the state thus established and eventually have been obliged to retract . |