Example sentences of "and so fail [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining test utterances were not incorrectly identified ; the system simply generated too many partial interpretations and so failed to give a response within the resource limits of the trial . |
| 2 | Legal concepts are inconclusive , and so fail to draw distinctions vital in real life . |
| 3 | When parents or teachers mock our desire to become a deep-sea diver , an opera singer or a portrait artist , and encourage us to have more ‘ sensible ’ ambitions — perhaps to become a nurse , bank clerk or accountant — we obediently wrap up our fantasies with a label which reads ‘ This is an impossible dream ’ , and so fail to take any steps to make those dreams come true . |
| 4 | The student should be encouraged never to try to progress too quickly , and so fail to assimilate what he/she is studying . |
| 5 | This can happen when the couple 's blood is too similar and the mother 's immune system fails to recognise a baby and so fails to protect it . |
| 6 | In that marriage she was easily the dominant partner and Joe let her be partly because it is n't in his nature to be pushy or dominant but mainly due to the fact his father bullied his mother , as we are told and he is afraid of him doing this as well and so fails to protect Pip and tolerates Mrs Joe 's dominant character . |