Example sentences of "only failed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 2 | When Lugard arrived in October 1912 on a state visit to Zungeru , Temple not only failed to vacate his headquarters for Lugard 's use , as Lugardian protocol apparently demanded , but left the Governor-General to remain on his official train and bake in the African sun . |
| 3 | More recent research has not only failed to support this view , but has also laid open the possibility that simplified input may not be particularly useful . |
| 4 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 5 | Also contrary to the speculations of media sociologists , television not only failed to determine what the electorate thought , it also failed to determine what they thought about , though it did communicate to the electorate what the parties were fighting about . |
| 6 | However the predicted shortage of qualified nursing staff not only failed to materialise , but many newly qualified nurses are unable to find employment . |
| 7 | Haiducu not only failed to assassinate Goma and Tanase , but handed himself over to the French authorities with his weapon . |
| 8 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 9 | We have examined Lord Lumley … but he has so far not only failed to prove a single alibi , [ also ] on cross-examination his case would seem to have completely broken down . |
| 10 | In the short term the speech not only failed to accelerate the coming of reform , but even postponed it . |
| 11 | As a result of the sterling area policy , Britain not only failed to deliver the goods but actively and blatantly exploited colonial producers . |
| 12 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 13 | His first major costing exercise suggested that domestic consumers not only failed to meet costs on peak loads but , in all except one Area Board ( where the data may have been biased ) , failed even to cover the average costs of supplying them . |
| 14 | The Minority Movement had not only failed to increase Communist support in the unions but was itself fading away . |
| 15 | Jim , who lives and delivers in Kilkeel , Co Down , has only failed to make his round once — and that was in a snowstorm in 1977 when his delivery van had to be towed out of a drift . |