Example sentences of "still failed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After correcting for this imbalance by the direct standardisation method , the recurrence rate in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated patients ( 15% ) was only half that seen in the other two groups ( 30% ) although this difference still failed to reach statistical significance . |
| 2 | As the terms of the game allowed anyone out without scoring to return to bat after the team were all out , Colin did so and still failed to score second time around ! |
| 3 | Asserting that the situation had improved since 1990 and that the Serrano government was more highly motivated than the previous administration in promoting respect for human right and bringing the perpetrators of abuses to justice , the report pointed out that the army still failed to co-operate with the police and the judiciary in prosecuting army personnel . |
| 4 | It is a measure of the seriousness of the arguments we put that , more than six months later , the Department still failed to issue the ruling , which it had promised to deliver as a matter of some urgency . |
| 5 | The payment of this sum , however , was conditional on the Legislative Assembly approving new and unpopular tax laws which it had still failed to do by May 1991 . |
| 6 | The suspension was typically soggy yet still failed to cope with the craters that pass for potholes in New York City . |
| 7 | Fennel , Bowers and Satz ( 1977 ) , for example , took pains to devise a tachistoscopic analogue of their dichotic task and still failed to find a significant correlation between the two sets of scores , although there was an increasing agreement over four testing sessions between the side of the ear advantage and the superior visual half-field . |
| 8 | The State Department had still failed to find anywhere else . |
| 9 | However , some members still failed to meet the guidelines on finishing jobs within 15 days of their first visit . |
| 10 | It now stood motionless , upright , next to the stone which it had still failed to raise , and which lay forlornly dangling over its hole . |
| 11 | The buxom Mlle Gilles is called upon every 10 minutes to reveal her all ( or three-quarters of it ) and while this is no sight to be despised , she could have appeared stark-naked from beginning to end and still failed to distract our attention from the movie 's essential mediocrity . ’ |
| 12 | I have , however , seen an advance copy of the report , which makes it clear that Libya has still failed to comply with resolution 731 . |
| 13 | The UN Security Council on March 31 approved Resolution 748 that if Libya on April 15 had still failed to comply with the UN resolution of Jan. 21 by handing over the two Lockerbie bombing suspects [ see p. 38743 ] , UN member-states would impose mandatory sanctions against Libya . |
| 14 | As will be elaborated now in further contexts , it appears that the underlying reality to such difficulties was , and remains a complex contradiction which the catholic — nationalist alliance has still failed to solve . |
| 15 | When the minutes stretched by , and Guy still failed to appear , it was Tara who explained . |