Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] [adv] failed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 2 | There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 3 | For the last two or three years , Chorus has been involved with Unisys Corp in a technology exchange that has so far failed to produce any significant deliveries . |
| 4 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 5 | Apple has been successful selling to schools in other countries , but has so far failed to make an impact in Japan ( apart from selling to private schools ) . |
| 6 | Soon too the horrors that Mr Hussein has promised but has so far failed to deliver may start to materialise : nerve gas , biological weapons , blazing oil fields . |
| 7 | He had always wanted to do something creative , but had so far failed to find a suitable medium — then he discovered photography . |
| 8 | The police have traced one of his daughters to break the news to her , but have so far failed to find his second daughter who is also abroad on holiday . |