Example sentences of "failed [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within some sophisticated GIS such as ARC/INFO there are some useful algorithms ( such as shortest path calculations ) , but GIS developers have in general failed to realize the natural links between GIS functions and many operations research techniques . |
| 2 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 3 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet on Sept. 11 , Ryzhkov admitted that the working group had failed to synthesise the rival plans . |
| 4 | Rhee therefore failed to secure the definite promises of American support that he deemed to be essential . |
| 5 | At the gates they found the cai assembling the whole labor force before the barrack huts to witness the public punishment of those who had failed to meet the new demands . |
| 6 | The latter , however , has failed to meet the growing needs of local peasantry and so the old technology is being restored . |
| 7 | A number of investigators have failed to find the expected correlations between lack of support , stress and psychiatric disorder shown in Figure 7.1 . |
| 8 | Leviticus , a person of such weapon-grade stupidity his mental faculties would probably have improved with the onset of senile dementia , left Scotland because the Conservatives had failed to reverse the Socialist reforms of the previous Labour government : railways still nationalised ; working class breeding like flies now the welfare state existed to prevent the natural culling by disease ; state-owned mines = intolerable . |
| 9 | Long failed to persuade the richer boroughs and the Cabinet to include a degree of late equalization in the Act which was , however , important as an admission of government responsibility for relief to the unemployed . |
| 10 | But it seemed the educators in question had simply failed to understand the structural rules of nonstandard grammars , and as linguists success-fully argued , their claims were meaningless . |
| 11 | The ones I spoke with believed that the authorities had failed to address the real issues . |
| 12 | Regulations , however , have failed to address the mounting risks to consumers from pollution and chemical waste , which share the water with the seafood . |
| 13 | So far three hours and thirty minutes of football has failed to separate the two sides . |
| 14 | However , if your swing clearly does n't work because you have failed to grasp the basic fundamentals , no amount of ‘ confidence ’ will remedy the situation . |
| 15 | Relations with Normandy were as important at the end as at the outset of Cnut 's reign , because his marriage to Emma ultimately failed to maintain the good relations with her kin necessitated by their sheltering of Edward and Alfred , her sons by Æthelred . |
| 16 | It was obvious from this that all the various reassurances from the state had failed to convince the local residents that uranium prospecting was harmless . |
| 17 | The company has failed to convince the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) that the embrittlement of the steel reactor vessel was not serious enough to prevent the station reopening . |
| 18 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 19 | As White and John Parrott , who currently occupies third spot , both failed to survive the qualifying rounds in Blackpool last September , Hendry will open up a sizeable lead in the standings if he were to capture the European title for the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ It is a major disappointment that they have failed to take the necessary initiatives . ’ |
| 21 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , he added , it had failed to take the necessary steps to prevent an escape of rainbow trout . |
| 23 | Considerable criticism was also made of the judge 's summing-up in the case , which some felt failed to clarify the real issues . |
| 24 | But to these targets needs to be added an analysis of what must be achieved in order to obtain them , in terms of both the behaviour and attitude of consumers : and of more functional matters such as ( for example ) greatly improved distribution — to put it in what is , from the agency 's point of view , the most defensive way possible , it is too easy to blame the advertising when the sales force has failed to achieve the necessary levels of retail distribution to support the required sales . |
| 25 | ‘ Our Dublin plant has consistently failed to produce the expected results , and it is this unfortunate experience which will weigh heavily against any further investment in Eire ; in much the same way as it has weighed heavily against the UK . |
| 26 | Many studies have examined the diagnostic potential of immunohistochemistry , but they have generally failed to show the clear definitions found with prostate specific antigen or thyroglobulin . |