Example sentences of "[adv] failed to provide " in BNC.

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1 The social sciences studied during training have entirely failed to provide teachers with a new working vocabulary .
2 He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary .
3 By the time of the next possible resolution of the problem at the end of 1921 , coalition had signally failed to provide Unionists with what they had hoped for , and Lloyd George had become an electoral albatross rather than an asset .
4 Failure of arrangements for proper payment had also failed to provide BR with the overall size , structure and quality of workforce needed .
5 Price signals also failed to provide significant pressures on the BEA .
6 Fourthly , a great potential outlet for American goods , the overseas market , also failed to provide sufficient demand .
7 In practice this distinction was almost impossible to maintain , especially as the exchanges and the education employment committees often failed to provide each other with the necessary information .
8 The vast library on police matters was clearly under-used and there is obviously a need for a critical ethnography of the college itself , for it takes in numbers of senior and middle police managers each year , maintains a considerable staff of academics and visiting lecturers , but has singularly failed to provide an academically stimulating ‘ university of policing ’ .
9 Such commentators have , however , singularly failed to provide evidence to support the first argument , that there were radical changes in behaviour .
10 Documents supplied to Congress on the eve of the summit initially failed to provide a clear picture , however , and were privately described by US officials as " ambiguous " .
11 Some say that the church has significantly failed to provide a safe ‘ family ’ , and the result has been that thousands of needy people have drifted through and away to the false substitutes of the world .
12 Todd 's interest in family structures was part of his search for an explanation of ‘ the distribution of political ideologies , systems and forces on our planet ’ ( p. 1 ) , which political science had significantly failed to provide .
13 These last two assurances , his successors had inexplicably failed to provide .
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