Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have failed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was uncovering the inner motivation behind the commandments , which interpreters had failed to appreciate . |
| 2 | Their occupants had failed to find land or position and stood on station platforms calling on their westbound fellows to give up and turn back . |
| 3 | Let denote the unanticipated rate of inflation , that is , that part of the rate of inflation which agents have failed to anticipate fully . |
| 4 | They were often beset with inner problems , a difficult economic environment , unsteady market conditions and , somehow , the promised excitement of their jobs had failed to materialise . |
| 5 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 6 | So it is almost a matter of philotimo , honour , that even in the relatively affluent Greece of recent years nobody who can possibly fiddle his taxes has failed to do so . |
| 7 | In 1312 Clement V sent his vice-chancellor of the Curia and his chamberlain to resolve the conflict over Gaveston ; in 1316–17 another mission was involved with the realignment of parties ; and in 1326 the pope gave his backing to the queen only after his envoys had failed to achieve an Anglo-French peace between Charles IV and Edward II . |
| 8 | The library arts college student is definitely scheduled for supervised reading periods and permitted to ask for a class meeting whenever he feels his readings have failed to answer questions . |
| 9 | Does the Secretary of State realise that his comments have failed to persuade the House that the policy that he and the Government are operating is right ? |
| 10 | ‘ If we win there before 2041 I 'll have to regard it as a bonus , ’ joked Wilkinson , frustrated at the way his players have failed to perform so often this season . |
| 11 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 12 | In February 1340 Edward himself came back to secure what his commissaries had failed to get , but only in May was he able to return to the continent assured of a grant . |
| 13 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Mr Cronkite 's associates in the network saw what others had failed to notice — Mr Trout was actually an unemployed actor and former colleague named Buck Henry . |
| 15 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |