Example sentences of "[noun sg] fail [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action failed as the damage claimed was too remote and on policy grounds it would not be right to allow an indemnity for the consequence of a criminal act . |
| 2 | This secretion fails with the onset of Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) acute gastritis and remains impaired in H pylori associated chronic gastritis . |
| 3 | At one point during his first month after the operation , a valve failed on the artificial heart , forcing the surgical team from the University of Utah Medical Centre in Salt Lake City to undertake a fresh operation to replace it . |
| 4 | Once more they mounted the dark steps of the building in the rue de Rivoli and once more the lift was motionless and the stairway light failed at the most inconvenient moments . |
| 5 | Big stresses were built up near the glue-lines ; if the glue was in bad condition it broke ; if not , the wood failed near the glue . |
| 6 | In August , the world rejoiced when the communist old guard failed in the attempted coup in Moscow . |
| 7 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 8 | Its engine failed in the eye of the storm as it headed through the Bristol Channel on its way from Middlesbrough to Newport . |
| 9 | Conventionalism failed from the latter perspective . |
| 10 | THE FIRST challenge under powers to appeal against judges ' decisions to ban the press and public from court failed in the Appeal Court yesterday . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was because she was American , but all this supposition failed before the one fact that mattered to him : he had come to love her passionately , wanted to fulfil that love , and he did not know what to do about it ! |
| 12 | Who can blame them when most traditional methods of weight control fail in the long term ? |
| 13 | In 1957 air control failed in the Oman . |
| 14 | The argument failed for the very good reason that the disposition of the company 's property took place when the charge was created and not when the charge was enforced ; the floating charge is an existing charge and not one arising in the future when the charge is enforced or when it crystallises . |
| 15 | Governments choosing weaker competitors , precisely because they were more accommodating of local demands for , say , ceding some of the ownership of the venture , have later regretted the choice when the firm failed in the global contest . |
| 16 | Aethelred 's new coinage failed in the early 790s and no new coins were minted under Eardwulf . |
| 17 | Attempts to introduce stricter controls on the activities of the increasing number of private bailiffs through an amendment to the Local Government Finance bill failed in the House of Lords in January . |
| 18 | If the project fails within the two-year period it should be abandoned . |
| 19 | If the project fails within the two-year period it should be abandoned . |
| 20 | Unfortunately the method described in the last section for determining curvature fails in the case of purely spatial surfaces . |
| 21 | When a bequest fails through the death of the person for whom it was intended , and does not pass under a residuary bequest , as must necessarily be the case if the bequest which falls is itself residuary , the property will be dealt with as upon an intestacy . |
| 22 | The application failed in the Court of Appeal . |
| 23 | Then , in front of a crowd that included the Duke of Edinburgh , the transmission failed on the start-line . |
| 24 | Clearly this system failed in the example here . |
| 25 | The remarkable thing about it all is that he had already caused significant bad debts when his Pergamon Press failed in the seventies . |
| 26 | In the present case , if the Court of Appeal had upheld the decision of Robertson J. on the first part , it would have been unfair to deny the respondents a right of appeal to the Privy Council on the compromise issue or the cancellation issue while accepting the petitioner could appeal to the Privy Council as of right if the petitioner failed on the misconduct issue . |
| 27 | The school failed after the collapse of her daughter 's marriage , and when her plans to open a school near Bristol failed , she left for America . |
| 28 | That distribution system fails at the bureaucratic level and in terms of the direct transport available . |
| 29 | Also , if the unit fails in the on position , the low wattage means that the temperature will not climb too high before the problem is seem ( with your free digital thermometer , of course ) . |
| 30 | Yet when Lawrence tried to use it , the camcorder failed for the third time . |