Example sentences of "failed take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 2 | In order to establish the defence , the defendant must prove that the plaintiff failed to take reasonable care for his own safety and that this failure was a cause of his damage . |
| 3 | The defendant must prove that the plaintiff failed to take reasonable care for his own safety and that this failure was a cause of his damage . |
| 4 | The plaintiff must prove that the manufacturer failed to take reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the product . |
| 5 | The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product . |
| 6 | The ANC also received encouragement from the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) which announced on April 29 that it would consider staging a general strike if the government failed to take effective steps to halt the violence . |
| 7 | These actions do not support the allegations that Dista Products failed to take appropriate action on this issue . |
| 8 | Whilst noting the developments in human rights since the unbanning of political organizations in February 1990 , Amnesty expressed its concern at the number of killings in which security force members appeared to be directly implicated but where the security forces failed to take appropriate action . |
| 9 | The facts must show , however , that whether A or B committed the final act , the other must have assisted , encouraged or , at least , failed to take necessary steps to prevent what happened . |
| 10 | Arguably only if the Library Association failed to take disciplinary action against its members for not putting professional loyalty and practice above employers ' decisions would the Code be discredited — as a paper tiger . |
| 11 | The RCN says Mrs Bottomley failed to take sufficient notice of the wishes of nursing staff to give their evidence in public . |
| 12 | The view of the House of Lords in Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1301 failed to take sufficient account of the variety of situations in which the phrase " dealing in the course of a business " appear . |
| 13 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 14 | The Committee concentrated on the Scottish LFA and failed to take proper note of more severe problems elsewhere . |
| 15 | One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment . |
| 16 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |