Example sentences of "who [verb] failed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourthly , a member who has failed to make the declaration of acceptance of office ( see ante , p. 28 ) automatically ceases to be a member . |
| 2 | Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice . |
| 3 | ‘ Edward , we are informed , tires of the man Balliol , who has failed him . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |
| 5 | One day we sit up straight at our desks to be told who has passed and who has failed . |
| 6 | He is another who has failed to maintain a grip on the advancing technology of credit and payment . |
| 7 | Here , too , the word ‘ spinster ’ evokes an ugly , lonely woman who has failed to get her man . |
| 8 | ( b ) Contributory negligence This defence will apply in actions under the Act , and a visitor who has failed to use reasonable care for his own safety and that failure was a cause of his damage will have his damages reduced . |
| 9 | The former Arsenal and England midfielder , who has failed to win a regular first team place during his 16 months at Elland Road , complained bitterly at the weekend after being dropped for the home game against Swindon . |
| 10 | Secondly , the giving of notice will establish the priority of the purchaser against the debtor ahead of any other assignee of the vendor who has failed to give notice of assignment to the debtor ( see Dearl v Hall [ 1828 ] 3 RUS 1 ) . |
| 11 | ( c ) Enforcement of judgments Where there has been a judgment against the firm , execution may be issued against : ( 1 ) assets of the firm ; or ( 2 ) any person who has acknowledged service as a partner ; or ( 3 ) any person served as a partner who has failed to acknowledge service ; or ( 4 ) any person who has admitted in his pleading to being a partner or who has been found by the court to be a partner . |
| 12 | While individuals may be seeking : ( 1 ) freedom to advance their careers by moving on to other firms , but " job security " in the meanwhile ; ( 2 ) payment , on death or retirement , of the full value of their partnership shares ( including capital contributions , undrawn profits , goodwill etc ) ; and ( 3 ) upon death and/or retirement from practice , financial security for themselves and their families , the firm 's priorities in the interests of preserving profitability are likely to be concentrated on : ( 1 ) the need to impose restrictions on the freedom of partners to leave without adequate notice and/or thereafter to compete with the firm ; ( 2 ) the ability to remove from the firm any partner who has failed to meet proper professional standards who is disruptive or who is not seen to be pulling his weight ; and ( 3 ) the need to minimise the strain on the firm 's finances when a partner leaves whilst recognising a certain moral responsibility towards the family of a deceased partner . |
| 13 | The roll-call of young hopefuls looked to be crammed with too many no-hopers , too many Sheffield-based bands who 'd failed to progress from local lustre to national notoriety . |
| 14 | another twenty years it 's littered with people who 've failed in this . |
| 15 | Erm let's see , usually what happens is there 's an exam board in June after people have hopefully done all their coursework and , and done their exams and then we decide what to do with the people er you know who 've failed something or there 's stuff missing |
| 16 | A psychiatrist who specialises in executive stress thought the fencing indicated that the person it protected felt an enormous sense of isolation and betrayal at the hands of people who had failed to be grateful for years of selfless public service . |
| 17 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 18 | After a reception for nearly 150 guests , my right cheek was red and raw : a result of male guests who had failed to have an afternoon shave . |
| 19 | By the time the church meetings ended , the Nikolaikirche Square and the surrounding streets were already full to overflowing with the crowds who had failed to gain entry into any of the churches . |
| 20 | Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition , should it not be properly accomplished , and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference . |
| 21 | The linking of sexual enjoyment with social status also proved a golden formula for Hugh Hefner , who had failed as a cartoonist and copy-writer on Esquire in Chicago and was doing none too well as a promoter of a magazine called Children 's Activities . |
| 22 | Now the nurse from the clinic was visiting the school again , and Frankie was the only boy in his class who had failed to return his slip of paper duly signed by a parent or guardian . |
| 23 | This unimposing fellow , who had failed at every stage so far , is starting a band ? |
| 24 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 25 | They were taken up by the fast-running forwards to outplay and outwit the slow and often clumsy defensive play of oppositions who had failed to grasp the significance of the changed offside rules . |
| 26 | The pope was father in God to the Romans , and to all men ; he was St Peter in person , the earthly representative of the apostle on whom the fame and fortune of the city most depended ; but he was also a petty tyrant — one of the ancient rulers who had failed to go away ; the symbol of all that was alien to the new found liberty so loved by the Italian city dwellers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 27 | However , it was to the small farmer and small businessman , the very people who had failed to colonise the east , individuals who felt themselves beset by Poles , Jews and communists in ways they could not articulate , that the Nazis were to make their main appeal . |
| 28 | The temptation to take the easy way out was well-nigh irresistible with youngsters who had failed to make their way ( probably through no fault of their own ) and who showed their resentment . |
| 29 | Knowing the King , as he believed , Nicholas had always assumed that now , through his placing at table , Zacco would take his chance to belittle in public this favoured commander who had failed to give him his kingdom as promised . |
| 30 | This study showed that the homoeopathic remedies were an extremely effective way of managing many patients who had failed to respond to conventional therapies . |