Example sentences of "[noun pl] but fail " in BNC.
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| 1 | As anticipated , London W1-based software systems and consultancy Logica Plc avoided heavy losses but failed to ‘ bounce back ’ in a big way during the first half mainly because of its patchy performance . |
| 2 | Among such part-timers were a few public-school boys playing at being football fans but failing really to understand what it was all about . |
| 3 | If taken over an extended period , however , patients may start to prove these remedies but fail to realize that new symptoms which they are beginning to experience are linked to the remedy which they are taking . |
| 4 | The collapse of International Leisure in 1990 and the sale of Dan Air to British Airways created waves but failed to blow Airtours off course . |
| 5 | Control of the existing social machinery counted for quite a lot in this battle ; the reformers forced some concessions but failed to topple the existing hierarchy . |
| 6 | Alternatively a pupil might know that the height of most adults is between five and six feet but fail to apply this knowledge to estimates of other lengths or heights . |
| 7 | In any technical comment you make , please remember that a former editor made a passionate technical plea for the retention of 405 lines but failed to realise the commercial advantages which had then already accrued in the 625 line camp . |
| 8 | Detectives searched the area with a helicopter and tracker dogs but failed to catch the man . |
| 9 | The net result is like sitting in a club with all the right credentials but failing to have a good time . |
| 10 | He made great promises for future dates but failed to ring the numbers they gave him . |
| 11 | He claims , for instance , that Locke 's ‘ intellectual bias ’ characterises ‘ our present use of language ’ , presumably using ‘ our ’ to refer to himself and fellow academics but failing to make the restriction clear . |
| 12 | O'Shaughnessy tried to chip Perks from 25 yards but failed admirably , Mardenborough twice shot wide looking for his hat trick , Gaughan twice broke through on his own but was denied by the keeper , and Ellison hit the post from an acute angle in the last minute . |
| 13 | ‘ We have tried many times in recent years to land Catholic players but failed — largely because the players themselves were worried about adverse reaction in their own neighbourhood . |
| 14 | The defendants supplied a chemical to the plaintiffs but failed to warn that it was liable to explode on contact with water . |
| 15 | Stabler had three chances to put West Hartlepool ahead with penalty kicks but failed , though one struck an upright . |
| 16 | A larger crowd than normal subsequently turned up at Cardiff to see if Gover 's cure had worked , and Griffin sent down 18 blameless overs but failed to take a wicket . |
| 17 | During 1991 , for instance , Hi-Five 's ‘ I Like The Way ( The Kissing Game ) ’ , a Jive release , headed the US listings but failed to dent the Top 40 here , a similar fate befalling Surface 's ‘ The First Time ’ . |
| 18 | A report by the National Human Rights Commission blamed the army for the deaths but failed to investigate possible complicity between the army and the drug smugglers . |
| 19 | Where the section states ‘ he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe ’ this applies to the situation where the occupier knows or is aware of the primary facts but fails to draw the reasonable inference that the premises are dangerous or that the non-visitor 's presence is likely . |
| 20 | The government 's anti-crisis programme , unveiled this week ( see page 93 ) , is brave in parts but fails to tackle the essential task of privatisation and can not work without the agreement of republican governments . |