Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is alleged that Guinness Brewing Worldwide failed to provide a safe procedure for work near high voltage electrical equipment so that non-employees were put at risk . |
| 2 | If the Church of England , which many preferred to call simply ‘ the Establishment ’ or , copying the Scots , ‘ the Episcopalian Church ’ violated its ‘ contract ’ and failed to provide a Protestant religion for England , then the Nonconformists , cooperating through the Council , would willingly take up the contract and deliver the appropriate religion . |
| 3 | These figures are for those researchers actually finishing their work and submitting a successful thesis , and they do not include those who failed to complete their research , or who failed to reach the required standard for the granting of the Ph D degree . |
| 4 | These figures are for those researchers actually finishing their work and submitting a successful thesis , and they do not include those who failed to complete their research , or who failed to reach the required standard for the granting of the Ph D degree . |
| 5 | Geraldine Ferraro , who had been the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1984 , once again suffered because of her husband 's alleged connections with the Mafia and failed to win the Democratic nomination for a Senate seat for New York . |
| 6 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 [ see p. 36019 ] , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 . |
| 7 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 , 1988 , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 [ see pp. 36019-22 ] . |
| 8 | Consequently , the DES failed to devise a coherent strategy for teacher training and to work out its role in relation to higher and further education and its priority within the whole education programme . |
| 9 | Failing to find an appropriate site for a shot , the location manager on the new Willy Russell venture , Dancing Through The Dark , decided to mock it up by erecting a spanking new bus shelter in Wavertree , one of Liverpool 's livelier areas . |
| 10 | John Major and Chris Patten know that , if the Tories lose office , they will be blamed for fighting a negative campaign , for failing to create a Conservative vision for the nineties . |
| 11 | Equally vitally , the Government are failing to make a positive case for European integration . |
| 12 | The summit failed to approve the Malaysian proposal for the establishment of an East Asian Economic Caucus ( EAEC ) . |
| 13 | If it be at an untimely hour , or if they fail to assign a proper reason for being in a place , he is to arrest them … showing bad characters that they are known and watched by him … their habits will point them out without further ado … |
| 14 | They hoped and believed that Bonar Law would fail to secure an overall majority for the Conservative Party . |
| 15 | Nevertheless the only means at their disposal — cutting money wages — will fail to produce the required outcome for all of the reasons outlined above . |
| 16 | Habari ya Mwezi , started at an early date by the UMCA , has already been mentioned , but failed to become an important vehicle for African opinion . |
| 17 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities claimed that the Government had failed to acknowledge the overwhelming case for more investment . |
| 18 | The government has also failed to accept the real need for improved provision at school level in this area . |
| 19 | The empirical correlation between spending and wealth fails to provide a convincing explanation for inter-State variations in welfare allocations , however ; why should some State governments tax their residents more than others in order to provide such a good welfare state , it is asked , unless there are pressing political , and especially electoral , reasons , to do so ? |
| 20 | Martinho 's resignation was seen as representing the development of a long-term crisis within a party which had failed to find a suitable replacement for its original leader and whose popular support had been reduced to below 5 per cent of the vote . |
| 21 | Bett Brothers , the property , housing and leisure group , has ceased operations at Bett Trucks having failed to find a main distributor for Leyland Daf , its franchiser . |
| 22 | They have made interesting and occasionally convincing criticisms , but they have totally failed to suggest an alternative future for this country . |
| 23 | Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , has failed to win a new deal for Palestinians from the Israeli Prime Minister , Yitsak Shamir . |
| 24 | It is surprising that the Government should have failed to understand the public enthusiasm for the Beveridge Report , when it was published in December 1942 . |
| 25 | Because he has failed to offer a clear-cut criterion for the rejection of any coherent research programme , or for choosing between rival research programmes , one might wish to say , with Feyerabend , that Lakatos 's methodology is ‘ a verbal ornament , as a memorial to happier times when it was still thought possible to run a complex and often catastrophic business like science by following a few simple and ‘ rational ’ rules ’ . |
| 26 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |