Example sentences of "failed [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court found that Papandreou 's government had failed to carry out a 1987 EC request that investigations be made into ITCO 's activities . |
| 2 | This is the second time you 've failed to pass on a vital message . |
| 3 | When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire . |
| 4 | Usually , they have conveniently failed to draw up a proper baseline first , or to lay down exactly how they will demonstrate success . |
| 5 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 6 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |