Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You failed to fall in love with me — |
| 2 | Potting up petunias in coco fibre — only gloxinia failed to thrive in coir compost |
| 3 | He failed to appear in court to face four charges of theft . |
| 4 | Coun Mike J Carr failed to appear in court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Cleveland county councillor John Garvey . |
| 5 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 6 | He jettisoned his parachute but died after his reserve chute failed to open in time . |
| 7 | The risk factors were the parenting provided by mothers who were themselves in care as children ( 23 case , 21 comparison ) , mother who were depressed when their children were 2 years old ( 48 case , 27 comparison ) and mothers whose children failed to grow in spite of the absence of any organic disorder ( 23 case and 23 comparison ) . |
| 8 | Consequently , unlike Canterbury , it failed to keep in line with the Roman practice when the fourteenth day of the moon fell on a Sunday . |
| 9 | Mr Ceausescu had encased himself in such an impeneterable fortress that Gorbachev spared the Romanian leader from the warning he was to deliver later to Erich Honecker , that ageing leaders who failed to reform in time would pay dearly . |
| 10 | THE hopes of a campaigning church minister have been dashed after John Major failed to intervene in closure plans for eight old people 's homes . |
| 11 | The most common cause for solicitors having to claim on their professional indemnity insurance in personal injury work is the missing of time limits and allowing cases to become statute barred , either by failing to issue in time or failing to serve in time . |
| 12 | I then incurred further charges through failing to remain in credit for a full quarter . |
| 13 | The most common cause for solicitors having to claim on their professional indemnity insurance in personal injury work is the missing of time limits and allowing cases to become statute barred , either by failing to issue in time or failing to serve in time . |
| 14 | In poor black areas it is common for half the class to fail to graduate ( which , in America , means merely failing to stay in school until you are 18 — there is no national exam for school-leavers ) . |
| 15 | It decided to question the validity of the Regulations in proceedings for judicial review but to avoid adverse publicity which might arise if it was the only building society failing to pay in accordance with the Regulations and to avoid the danger of being charged penalties , it paid three instalments as required by the Regulations but without prejudice to its right to recover those sums if it was correct in its contention that the Regulations were void . |
| 16 | Now I 'll ask you again Mrs , to that offence of failing to stop in accordance with the requirements of the Road Traffic Act do you plead guilty or not |
| 17 | Unfortunately , safety was not one of the Dreadnoughts ' strong points , and there were some horrible accidents were one car , failing to stop in time , piled into the back of the other injuring and even killing passengers on the steps . |
| 18 | But by failing to register in time you will have lost the chance of being given preference in allocation . |
| 19 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 20 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 21 | In some areas council gritters failed to arrive in time to prevent skid-pan surfaces . |
| 22 | Er my Lord it 's rather a complicated of transaction and the the essential heading this case was that he failed to advise in relation to title er the person who goes from with respect to a land transaction he 's entitled to expect that the lawyer investigates the state of entitlement to arrange the matter and to explain to the trial exactly what that is , what it is that is portrayed by the state of the title . |
| 23 | This is a figure included to ensure that all three methods yield identical results which , of course , they should do in principle , but which they invariably fail to do in practice because of errors and omissions which arise through imperfect data collection . |
| 24 | There has always been criticism , much of it unjust , that lecturers in colleges and polytechnics fail to keep in touch with school-based initiatives and developments and that college programmes are all too often divorced from the real world of school . |
| 25 | Residential workers are not involved in decisions as to whether , when and where to admit children into care ; fieldworkers fail to provide basic information about the personal histories of the children and young people admitted to care ; young people are admitted to care precipitously , without warning or preparation ; fieldworkers sometimes fail to keep in touch with the young person and the residential staff once the child is admitted ; discharge for the young people can be as sudden as their arrival . |
| 26 | Cells failed to proliferate in culture , which limits any potential for increasing cell number in vitro , but surviving cell clumps impregnated in gelatin squares showed development in vivo . |
| 27 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 28 | Your summoned that at Worley on the twenty fifth of July nineteen eighty eight , you being the driver or a motor car on King Street and an accident occurred where injury was caused to you failed to stop in accordance with section twenty five of the Road Traffic Act of nineteen seventy two . |
| 29 | Her police back-up Rover failed to stop in time and ploughed into her beloved cherry-red Mercedes 500SL . |
| 30 | Our results also raise the possibility that demyelinating lesions that cause a conduction block along axons , as occurs in multiple sclerosis , may fail to remyelinate in part because the silent axons fail to stimulate oligodendrocyte precursor cells to proliferate . |