Example sentences of "[adv] failed do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 2 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 3 | The device ended on a sour note from the consumer standpoint in 1974 , however , when the dollar underwent an increase in value which ought to have triggered a price reduction but somehow failed to do so . |
| 4 | In other words , the Church recognised Constantine as successfully achieving what Jesus had signally failed to do . |
| 5 | Government policy has signally failed to do this and the result is a profession which is demoralised by its responibility to the children , to parents , and to a host of bodies and organisations , all of whom want their ‘ say ’ . |
| 6 | had been given ample opportunity to respond constructively but had palpably failed to do so . |
| 7 | British Rail has so far totally failed to do so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The convention insists that signatories should aim to treat their own hazardous wastes at home , as the greenest countries ( chart 8 ) have notably failed to do . |
| 10 | The first Labour government singularly failed to do anything about the level of unemployment , although it made it easier for the unemployed to obtain unemployment relief and extended benefit . |
| 11 | It is therefore necessary to address not only his theoretical and methodological but also his historical arguments — something that his critics have singularly failed to do . |
| 12 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 13 | ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’ |
| 14 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 15 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 16 | Which it quite failed to do . |
| 17 | But his mother had nothing to do except care for him , and this she had blatantly failed to do . |
| 18 | The pendulum will swing back with a pope of another complexion and a new phase of more radical reform will curb the structures of ultramontanism in a way Vatican II almost wholly failed to do . |
| 19 | It would have even more credibility if the Labour party would claim and set out the funding that it would provide for the national health service , which it has expressly failed to do . |
| 20 | It may well be that the jury took the view that at the outset of the relationship with each businessman the appellant may genuinely have intended to do the work but subsequently failed to do so . |