Example sentences of "failed [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 2 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 3 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 4 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 5 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 6 | One person in 10 failed to spell any word correctly according to the Gallup survey of 1,000 adults . |
| 7 | Er Selby have as I und as I can see it today , failed to establish any need for the bid for two hundred two hundred and fifty hectares which they 've put forward . |
| 8 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 9 | Although minor works by Jasper Johns ( lot 20 , est. $300–400,000 ) and Robert Rauschenberg ( lot 21 , est. $500–700,000 ) failed to attract any bids , there was satisfactory interest in Minimalist and Neo-Expressionist pictures from his collection . |
| 10 | A pair of granite chairs by Scott Burton ( lot 55 , est. $100–150,000 ) sold for $80,000 ( £44,400 ) , in spite of concerns about their condition Lichtenstein 's ‘ Laughing cat ’ ( lot 44a , est. $350–450,000 ) failed to attract any interest and was bought in at $190,000 . |
| 11 | Two of Queen Victoria 's night dresses failed to attract any interest when they came up for auction . |
| 12 | United was not there — or at least not where Bob Smith expected her — and an SUE charge ( see diagram p. 62 ) tossed over the side failed to attract any attention . |
| 13 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 14 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 15 | Later studies failed to find any response , for the most part , although one found that two out of 16 schizophrenics responded . |
| 16 | ( As with the Hand thesis 91 , an online search of the LISA database failed to find any evidence that Hughes has as yet published her extremely worthwhile research ) . |
| 17 | ( As with the Hand thesis , an online search of the LISA database failed to find any evidence that Hughes has as yet published her extremely worthwhile research ) . |
| 18 | Archaeological digs by a team from Newcastle University failed to find any remains of interest in the area to be developed , yesterday 's planning applications sub-committee was told . |
| 19 | It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association . |
| 20 | However , Nielsen and Videbech ( 1973 ) failed to find any effect on the suicide rate of the introduction of a community service to an island population . |
| 21 | De Forbin now turned back , but a French frigate , sent into the Forth to contact supporters on shore , failed to receive any response and with the appearance on 13 March 1708 of Admiral Byng 's 28 ships on the horizon , de Forbin , not the most heroic of commanders , hastily stood out to sea . |
| 22 | Harriet sensing , quite rightly , that this must have something to do with a man , failed to receive any response to the most careful attempts to discover what was wrong . |
| 23 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 24 | All were in perfect condition , and the inscriptions seemed rather unusual : analysis failed to detect any gold at all , strongly suggesting the ingots were made from modern refined silver . |
| 25 | A " wolf summit " was held in January to debate the plan , but failed to reach any agreement [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 26 | They depicted British cinema as indifferent to art , lacking drive and sense of direction and , in their distaste for the commercial orientation of the system , failed to suggest any ways to reform it . |
| 27 | In elections in Geneva on Oct. 15 to the cantonal parliament , the extreme right-wing anti-foreigner Vigilance party lost 10 of the 19 seats which it had won in 1985 [ see p. 34253 ] , the Greens increased their share from eight to 13 and the Car Party failed to win any representation . |
| 28 | The Conservatives , fighting in Ulster for the first time in 70 years , failed to win any seats . |
| 29 | The National Democrats failed to win any seats . |
| 30 | The Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movment ( MBPM ) , led by Terry Marryshow , failed to win any seats , attracting less than 2 per cent of the popular vote . |