Example sentences of "[adv] failed make " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to see how a law has so rapidly effected a dramatic and important change in people 's behaviour concerning safety while travelling where even aggressive publicity campaigns apparently failed to make the necessary impact . |
| 2 | GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Several of the original cast were written out within months of the launch , and there were many other changes — but all failed to make the soap a winner . |
| 5 | Several of the original cast were written out within months of the launch , and there were many other changes — but all failed to make the soap a winner . |
| 6 | Elected in 1946 , the had hitherto failed to make much impression ; financially backed by a soft drinks company , whose interests he advocated , he was dismissed as the " Pepsi Cola kid " . |
| 7 | Organisers of the Tenerife Open failed to make the requisite telephone call by 10am yesterday morning to tell tour officials that they could raise the money , so it has been replaced by the Atlantic Open at Estela , near Oporto , from February 15-18 . |
| 8 | The handsome and sombre costumes , historically accurate , are relieved by colour only in the auto-da-fe , which seemed to belong to another production and signally failed to make the flesh creep , even when the fire was lit in the victims ' underground cage . |
| 9 | However , the Australian Geoff Hunt , joint holder of the record of eight British Open titles , just failed to make it . |
| 10 | Emily Bond a new name from Gloucestershire did best of all … she beat Heidi Hogh 6-1 6-0 but just failed to make the quarter finals … |
| 11 | This option largely failed to make headway for many of the basic theoretical reasons that were outlined in Chapter 2 . |
| 12 | Gordon Brand , jun , and Ireland 's David Feherty , who were joint runners-up in Valencia last week , both failed to make the cut after taking 75 to finish on 148 , and the Turespana Masters champion , Andrew Oldcorn ( 74 ) went out on 150 . |
| 13 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 14 | The size of Swainson 's plates also failed to make the best use of the lithographic process : they are as small as regular engravings , with the size of the bird in most considerably reduced . |
| 15 | It closed almost two pfennigs lower at Dm2.3486 and almost half-a-cent down at $1.4440 , while the FT-SE 100-Share Index also failed to make a decisive move and closed only 1.8 higher at 2,814.0 on cash-call fears , with nearly 619 million shares changing hands . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | But back to Worcestershire , where Moody got two early Championship hundreds in a summer so far restricted for him by shin and ankle-ligament problems : where the worries over Dilley 's Achilles tendon and knee wo n't go away ; where Hick 's form remains enigmatic ; where left-hander Adam Seymour , the Millfield boy who switched from Essex — at appeared an astute and logical career move for him — has so far failed to make an impact on the banks of the Severn . |
| 18 | In the 1780s , when Highgate Hill was so steep and deeply rutted that carriages regularly failed to make the grade , and the drive to town sufficiently dangerous that a wise man went with pistols , a merchant called Thomas Roxborough had constructed a handsome house on Hornsey Lane , designed for him by one Henry Holland . |
| 19 | Lenders have sometimes failed to make an adequate assessment of the credit worthiness of clients , especially as competition to lend has intensified . |
| 20 | Earlier expeditions , in the wars against Louis XIV , had twice failed to make any progress up the narrow estuary of the St. Lawrence ; the new expedition under Wolfe sailed up the river and established itself outside Quebec , the capital of New France : British troops took up positions east of the city and also on the south side of the river , but there was no attempt at a seige and the routes north and west of the city remained open . |
| 21 | Sir Russell Johnston , MP for one of the UK 's largest constituencies , Inverness , Nairn and Lochaber , said the Chancellor had once again failed to make any differentiation between the situation of urban and rural car owners . |
| 22 | There were admittedly plenty of countries even in Europe — and practically all outside that continent — where the left , revolutionary or otherwise , as yet failed to make any impact on the peasantry ; as the Russian populists ( see chapter 9 above ) discovered when they decided to ‘ go to the people ’ in the 1870s . |
| 23 | The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices . |
| 24 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 25 | In his speech Jack said ‘ I had 18 years with James Templeton , which until 1969 never failed to make a profit . |