Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Reagan failed to support an effort in Congress to provide a five-year , $1000 million package of loans and other measures to tempt the mining firms into action . |
| 2 | ( c ) failed to provide an explanation for the absence of the profit and loss account as required by the Companies Act 1985 and |
| 3 | ( c ) failed to provide an explanation for the absence of the profit and loss account as required by the Companies Act 1985 and |
| 4 | ( c ) failed to provide an explanation for the absence of the profit and loss account as required by the Companies Act 1985 and |
| 5 | On the Poll Tax , they rejected non-payment but failed to provide an option for people except NUNGE , nothing until the next general election . |
| 6 | When the agreement in the present case was made , it failed to grant an estate in the land . |
| 7 | However , while it might seem that in high EE homes , people with schizophrenia would be particularly vulnerable to relapse after a life event , Leff and Vaughn ( 1980 ) failed to find an excess of events in the weeks preceding relapse for patients in high EE homes . |
| 8 | Our results may explain the puzzling results from at least two previous trials , which failed to find an impact on morbidity even in the presence of a large effect on mortality . |
| 9 | Trade representatives from 107 countries , meeting in Brussels on Dec. 3-7 , failed to reach an agreement on world trade under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) to conclude the " Uruguay Round " of negotiations , under way since 1986 [ see pp. 35024-28 ; 36508-09 ; 36605-06 ; 37227-28 ; 37796 ] . |
| 10 | The two bodies , Taiwan 's Straits Exchange Foundation , and China 's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits , failed to reach an agreement on the issue of document verification and registered mail . |
| 11 | Maximum score 1OO — lose six points if you shot a friend , lose eight if you failed to shoot an enemy . |
| 12 | Vagnorius failed to give an explanation for the crisis to the Supreme Council before the end of April . |
| 13 | Fieldworkers used list A as a basis and the other two as a back-up resource ; B and C were ordered in such a way that if researchers failed to record an interview at , for example , household number 4 on list A , household number 4 of lists B and C would be of a similar type in the same locale . |
| 14 | Article II laid down that if Queen Anne failed to leave an heir the succession should pass to a relatively distant claimant , ‘ the most excellent Princess Sophia , electress and duchess dowager of Hanover , and the heirs of her body being protestants ’ . |
| 15 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 16 | Matthew Rider , 20 , of Foster Road , Great Totham , also faces two charges of failing to stop after an accident and two charges of failing to report an accident , and one of having a false number plate on the car he was driving . |
| 17 | Mrs Fenton , who runs a wine business and lives in a £500,000 house on the outskirts of Stratford upon Avon , admitted careless driving , failing to stop after an accident and failing to report an accident . |
| 18 | Now the driver of the car had been traced and in a few minutes would be appearing at committal proceedings in the Magistrates ' Court on charges of dangerous driving , failing to report an accident , and failing to stop at the scene of an accident . |
| 19 | Paul Collins McInnes , 23 , of High Street , Great Ayton , admitted driving motor car without due care and attention and failing to report an accident , fined £150 , licence endorsed . |
| 20 | Justin Waring 20 , from Sycamore Walk , Loftus , was liable for disqualification after admitting careless driving and failing to report an accident . |
| 21 | Philip Earl , 19 , of Gladstone Street , Darlington , was convicted of driving a motor pick-up without due care , failing to stop after an accident , failing to report an accident , driving without a licence and without insurance , fined £285 , licence endorsed , disqualified for nine months . |
| 22 | He admitted taking the car without consent , driving while unfit through drink , without insurance and unaccompanied by a qualified motorist , and failing to report an accident . |
| 23 | The following cases were dealt with by Northallerton magistrates : Alan Robert Lazenby , 22 , of Knotto Bottom Road , Northallerton , was convicted of entering building and stealing property valued at £824 , entering a storage container and stealing property valued at £350 , dishonestly attempting to obtain £989.46 worth of goods by deception , dishonestly obtaining goods valued at £77 by deception , driving a van while disqualified and using a van without insurance , without a test certificate , driving while disqualified , failing to provide specimen of blood for analysis , driving car recklessly , using car with a defective tyre , with a defective braking system , failing to report an accident , failing to stop after an accident , failing to stop when required by PC , using a car without insurance ; 15 months imprisonment , licence endorsed , six points , disqualified for three years . |
| 24 | She could have been speaking of failing to spot an acquaintance in a crowd . |
| 25 | After failing to reach an agreement over the rent with Belle Vue 's new owner , David Butters , the committee has decided that their faithful followers should be the ones to vote on the club 's fate . |
| 26 | Graham Gooch leads the senior side to India and Sri Lanka , but after failing to make an impact in the Test team during the series against Pakistan he seemed more likely to go on his third A-team tour , this time to Australia . |
| 27 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 28 | Malik dived bout failed to hold an edge off Waqar . |
| 29 | In the Court of Appeal yesterday the National Union of Mineworkers failed to overturn an injunction granted to its South Wales area in May , banning the union from issuing ballot papers for an election for a new national vice-president because of an ‘ unlawful ’ ruling by Mr Arthur Scargill . |
| 30 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |