Example sentences of "[noun prp] failed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three rounds of voting in February and March failed to elect any of the candidates [ see p. 37264 ] , so that the task fell to the new parliament which emerged from the April 8 general election . |
| 2 | Tragically , Jim failed to recover from the stroke he had suffered on the Saturday morning ( 28th May ) and died the following morning . |
| 3 | The division of his estates between the two branches of his family helps to explain why the Langleys failed to rise further , as Geoffrey 's own career might well have suggested . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough failed to raise their game . |
| 5 | Wilson in the end fails to escape from ‘ the nexus of moralistic ideology and patriarchal vision dressed up as social science , ( ibid. ) , much as the writers reviewed by Macnicol failed to do . |
| 6 | It was only when negotiations with Parnell failed to produce a compromise that he led the clerical attack on Parnell 's leadership . |
| 7 | Bangor led 1-0 with a ninth minute goal from Johnny Magee after fullback Mickey McKeown failed to clear . |
| 8 | What Pravda did not say was that Mr Gerasimov failed to get elected by popular vote in the all-union congressional elections last March — just like Mr Lev Zaikov , the ousted Moscow party leader . |
| 9 | What Pravda did not say was that Mr Gerasimov failed to get elected by popular vote in the all-union congressional elections last March — just like Mr Lev Zaikov , the ousted Moscow party leader . |
| 10 | Then in June 1967 , Romania failed to break off diplomatic relations with Israel after the outbreak of the Six Day War . |
| 11 | Tranmere failed to secure Rosenthal 's services on loan last season and his name has now been circulated to Premier League clubs . |
| 12 | Bangor failed to break the deadlock in the 15th and 26th minutes when Paul Gray and Stephen Hill squandered two good chances . |
| 13 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 14 | In the event , Wellington failed to form a government . |
| 15 | Mr Baker failed to end speculation about opposition from Sir Alan Walters , the Prime Minister 's economic adviser , to last week 's 1-point increase . |
| 16 | Not prone to understatement , our Michael , as witness the opening paragraph of his colourful piece on the day Tendulkar took the field for the first time : The ghost of Lord Hawke failed to rise from the grave . |
| 17 | Keating 's predecessor as Prime Minister and Labor Party leader , Bob Hawke , promised to end woodchipping of old growth forests by 2000 , a promise that Keating failed to endorse . |
| 18 | But 100-metres champion Linford Christie failed to make the 5.40 pm showdown and his dream of a sprint double died . |
| 19 | May Thompson 's death was the last murder Durham Constabulary failed to solve until Daphne Tork was killed at Aycliffe Village in 1989 , and Ann Heron was murdered near Darlington in August 1990 . |
| 20 | Moon tapped the penalty and tapped again when Cardiff failed to retreat 10 yards . |
| 21 | Moon tapped the penalty and tapped again when Cardiff failed to retreat 10 yards . |
| 22 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 23 | Northumberland failed to take her into his personal custody , but their exchanges of letters during her incarceration in Carlisle were to contribute largely to the disastrous Rising of the North in 1569 . |
| 24 | The Community Health Trust in Hereford failed to win the laundry contract for the city 's St Mary 's Hospital . |
| 25 | Even a three inch covering on the Caldon Canal at Stoke failed to stop a hastily arranged match won by Paul Hart ( Abbey Hulton ) with 24 gudgeon for 0–5–8 . |
| 26 | Nizan failed to resolve the problems arising from his divided class origins . |
| 27 | It is undoubtedly necessary to identify the reasons why Nizan failed to become as fully integrated within the structure of the party as Politzer , Cogniot or Aragon , for example . |
| 28 | Said Len Brealey : ‘ The plain facts are that after Mr Woolhouse failed to reach payment in an original contract we set up a new agreement . |
| 29 | Holland gained few glimpses of goal after that , although Taffarel failed to hold a hard low centre from Berghuis eight minutes before half-time and was fortunate that no Dutchman was around to pounce on the loose ball . |
| 30 | Talks in Moscow on March 15 between the United States Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet President Gorbachev failed to resolve problems over alleged Soviet violation of the terms of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) signed in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] . |