Example sentences of "narrowly failed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monie , who guided the Cherry and Whites to four successive league and Wembley doubles , narrowly failed to lead them to the Grand Slam last term after they were beaten by St Helens in the premiership final . |
| 2 | A bomb explosion narrowly failed to derail a train carrying over 1,000 passengers on the night of Jan. 5-6 , shortly after the train had left Lecce , in Apulia . |
| 3 | His model of utilitarian punishment was exemplified most famously in the Panopticon — a prison he designed and narrowly failed to persuade the British government to let him build . |
| 4 | On Oct. 10 , the House of Representatives narrowly failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to override Bush 's veto of a bill which would have limited imports of textiles , clothing and shoes . |
| 5 | On Oct. 24 the Senate narrowly failed to override the veto , voting by 66 to 34 in favour of the bill , one vote short of the two-thirds majority necessary to enact it over the objections of the President . |
| 6 | Occhetto , leader of the PCI since 1988 , narrowly failed to secure the necessary 274 votes for election as secretary of the PDS in the first round of voting by the new party 's national council on Feb. 4 , mainly due to the absence of 132 members . |
| 7 | McKean narrowly failed to catch his Jarrow rival with a late run for the line . |
| 8 | A proposal to bar the President from membership of any political party narrowly failed to obtain the support of the necessary two-thirds of the 2,250 Congress delegates , the voting on March 13 being 1,303 in favour and 607 against . |
| 9 | Joe Ashton , a Labour MP , narrowly failed to gain election to the Wednesday board . |
| 10 | Upon Karamanlis 's election as President in 1980 [ see pp. 30359-61 ] , Averoff narrowly failed to win the ND leadership , but was elected party leader in 1981 after the party 's defeat in the 1981 election [ see p. 31265 ] . |
| 11 | The far-right National Front ( FN ) narrowly failed to win a regional by-election in Nice on Feb. 23 . |