His work failed to develop, and how could it do so?

Sarek's voice, if not his words, admitted that the night's work might have failed.

Yet for most families the work has failed to translate into economic progress.

The work failed to find a buyer; bidding never went higher than $1.2 million.

Morgan's work has so far failed to address the issue of too much cricket.

If my work has failed, I don't want to know it.

Where this is the case no work can fail to please.

Their work did not fail to leave its traces.

Throughout the evening, when a work failed to find a buyer, there had been generally no interest at all.

He felt that the work fails to show the passion which scientists feel for science.