Example sentences of "failed [to-vb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 2 | While McEnroe , who appeared far from visibly insecure , enjoyed watching the following match between compatriots Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , a clearly embarrassed Babcock was left to confirm that if he failed to come to a press conference after his next match — against Goran Ivanisevic tonight — he would be fined up to $10,000 . |
| 3 | We had tea afterwards in a hotel in Berthing , but we failed to come to an agreement . |
| 4 | Pears failed to react to the danger , expecting offside , but Taylor got the ball under perfect control and shot into the net . |
| 5 | She would not come to the phone and failed to respond to a message . |
| 6 | She would not come to the phone and failed to respond to a message . |
| 7 | Latham and Andrew Jones put on 127 for the second wicket before the opener was run out when his partner failed to respond to a call for a run . |
| 8 | Coun Bill Dixon ( Lab ) spoke out after Mr Fallon failed to respond to a challenge over a unique mortgage rescue package . |
| 9 | Suddenly , at the Central Committee meeting in November , he failed to respond to the criticisms levelled at his ministry for failure to meet plan targets in the standard manner , neither would he take the blame for the strike at Motru . |
| 10 | CAR sales last month failed to respond to the Budget tax cuts but Ford has retained its market leadership while falling short of its objective of a 30 p.c. share . |
| 11 | CAR demand failed to respond to the Budget boost last month and , with election uncertainty now affecting business , manufacturers are pessimistic about the outlook and are cutting sales forecasts . |
| 12 | The military failed to respond to the offer . |
| 13 | ( d ) failed to refer to the non-depreciation of freehold property in accordance with Statement of Standard Accounting Practice number 12 |
| 14 | ( d ) failed to refer to the non-depreciation of freehold property in accordance with Statement of Standard Accounting Practice number 12 |
| 15 | ( d ) failed to refer to the non-depreciation of freehold property in accordance with Statement of Standard Accounting Practice number 12 |
| 16 | In the light of our discussion in Chapter 2 , it could be argued that in so doing they failed to get to the root of the problem . |
| 17 | Polypeptides VT1 to VT5 gave well defined protein:DNA complexes while VT7 ( residues 472-594 ) and VT11 ( residues 504-646 ) failed to bind to the DNA probe ( Figure 8B , lanes 7 and 8 respectively ) even at greatly increased protein concentrations ( data not shown ) . |
| 18 | The smallest region defined that retains sequence-specific DNA-binding activity contains DP-1 protein sequence from amino-acid residue 84 to 204 ( DP-1 84-204 ; Fig. 4 b , compare tracks 4 and 5 ) ; in the same conditions , an unrelated sequence-specific transcription factor , GATA-1 ( ref. 30 ) , failed to bind to the wild-type E2F site ( Fig. 4 b ; compare tracks 8 , 9 and 10 , 11 ) . |
| 19 | Police are concerned about an old man who failed to return to the Robert Huggins Home for the Elderly in Acklam , Middlesbrough , after leaving to go shopping on Monday afternoon . |
| 20 | Customs failed to speak to the wife before making the direction . |
| 21 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 22 | ‘ Nah ! ’ exploded the Old Stager , who never failed to rise to the Van Boy 's bait . |