Example sentences of "[verb] largely failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a home-grown industry to supply , spin off from , create an infrastructure around the big incomers has largely failed to develop . |
| 2 | The general pattern seems to be , however , that ‘ second wave ’ change has achieved its first objective — the implementation of new structures — but has largely failed to achieve the ‘ cultural ’ sea-change : the involvement of clinicians and a new approach to consumers . |
| 3 | World Communications Year ( WCY ) began in January , The United Nations , whose brainchild the year is , has largely failed to communicate that WCY is happening at all , let alone why it is needed . |
| 4 | But this also held the depressing implication that nothing much had changed since 1981 , and that the antiracist movement had largely failed to shift either popular attitudes or state policies . |
| 5 | It finds that the surveyed authorities spent a ‘ great deal of time and effort ’ developing the so-called care programme approach , although they had largely failed to implement monitoring systems . |
| 6 | Gummer admitted that previous governments had largely failed to address the environmental agenda , and called for a " great debate " to help inform the government 's strategy on achieving sustainability . |
| 7 | Though the sound of solo voice with choral accompaniment can be very beautiful , composers have largely failed to exploit this resource , possibly because they are well aware that a good solo voice may not always be available . |
| 8 | While foreigners on Wall Street have largely failed to break into the domestic-equity business , the gaijin houses on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) have won Japanese institutional business at the expense of the big four Japanese securities houses , mostly because the foreigners offer better research . |