1.   The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors.

2.   What if this plan of yours fails, what then?

3.   He received more of the blame than anyone when the plan failed to work.

4.   We never considered the possibility that the plan could fail.

5.   But the plan failed when Mrs Jones awoke just in time to save her life.

6.   But the plans failed because Adams and McGuinness failed to win over the IRA leadership.

7.   Although some feared that taking all birds out of the wild could mean the end of the species if the captive breeding plans failed, the birds adapted well.

8.   Analysts regret the plan failed.

9.   As yet the plans not only fail to form part of that bigger whole, they are incoherent in themselves.