Example sentences of "[verb] apparently failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wrings higher performance per clock than anybody and it has not broken compatibility the way Intel intends to do with the P6 and the way IBM has done with the Rios and its subset , the PowerPC , having apparently failed to scale the thing down to the desktop and having instead been forced to strip out 40 instructions and substitute a software emulator . |
| 2 | It wrings higher performance per clock than anybody and it has not broken compatibility the way Intel intends to do with the P6 ( UX No 420 ) and the way IBM has done with the Rios and its subset the PowerPC , having apparently failed to scale it down to the desktop and having been forced to strip out 40 instructions and substitute a software emulator . |
| 3 | A month-long strike for better pay and conditions by approximately 40,000 workers at the KGHM Polska Miedz Copper Combine in Legnica ended on Aug. 20 when strikers voted to suspend their action , having apparently failed to obtain pay increases of up to 30 per cent . |
| 4 | A month-long strike for better pay and conditions by approximately 40,000 workers at the KGHM Polska Miedz Copper Combine in Legnica ended on Aug. 20 when strikers voted to suspend their action , having apparently failed to obtain pay increases of up to 30 per cent . |
| 5 | He disputed suggestions that his own redistributive mock Budget at the outset of the election campaign may have contributed to the party 's defeat and expressed concern that those who would have gained from it had apparently failed to heed the message . |
| 6 | Yet over half of the disabled people being cared for in Glendinning 's ( 1992a ) study had apparently failed to claim the attendance allowance when they first became eligible , thereby potentially affecting their carers ' benefit entitlement as well : |
| 7 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 8 | No one was moved to burn the place down and the teachers were not encouraged to beat the children : though I had my knuckles painfully rapped on various occasions when I had apparently failed to decode some mysterious message or other . |