Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] failed to provide " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast library on police matters was clearly under-used and there is obviously a need for a critical ethnography of the college itself , for it takes in numbers of senior and middle police managers each year , maintains a considerable staff of academics and visiting lecturers , but has singularly failed to provide an academically stimulating ‘ university of policing ’ . |
| 2 | Some say that the church has significantly failed to provide a safe ‘ family ’ , and the result has been that thousands of needy people have drifted through and away to the false substitutes of the world . |
| 3 | He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary . |
| 4 | By the time of the next possible resolution of the problem at the end of 1921 , coalition had signally failed to provide Unionists with what they had hoped for , and Lloyd George had become an electoral albatross rather than an asset . |
| 5 | Failure of arrangements for proper payment had also failed to provide BR with the overall size , structure and quality of workforce needed . |
| 6 | These last two assurances , his successors had inexplicably failed to provide . |
| 7 | Todd 's interest in family structures was part of his search for an explanation of ‘ the distribution of political ideologies , systems and forces on our planet ’ ( p. 1 ) , which political science had significantly failed to provide . |
| 8 | The social sciences studied during training have entirely failed to provide teachers with a new working vocabulary . |