Example sentences of "it fails [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears to give legal authority for an apparently open-ended power to intercept and it fails to constrain that power by an adequate framework of judicial or parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 2 | In many respects it fails to answer these issues satisfactorily , although allowing the court to order medical examinations without parental consent legitimizes a position well established on an informal basis amongst the professionals involved . |
| 3 | Many comments contended that LIFO is conceptually flawed because it fails to assign current costs to inventories held and so distorts the balance sheet . |
| 4 | However , given the importance of the mortality record of the children of what we believe to be economically inactive , one parent families , any analysis of health inequalities will be seriously flawed if it fails to include this group . |
| 5 | For all its sophistication , however , it fails to place central-local relationships in the wider political and economic setting . |
| 6 | Of the diagnostic statistics reported for ( 2.2 ) , the RESET test statistic is of particular importance in that it fails to provide any evidence that relevant higher moments of the explanatory variables have been omitted from the equation . |
| 7 | Yet it is limited ; if applied to particles with very high energies it fails to provide meaningful answers . |
| 8 | It fails to guarantee civil rights , as our lamentable record at the European Court of Human Rights shows . |
| 9 | Counterpoint of the fugato or canonic type was used as accompaniment in Baroque times , but has now largely fallen out of use , as it fails to express individual mood or atmosphere . |
| 10 | One of the main criticisms of The Health of the Nation is that it fails to pay serious attention to health inequalities . |
| 11 | The merchant bank or broker will charge a commission for procuring the subscribers and may agree to subscribe itself for the balance if it fails to procure sufficient interest from its clients . |
| 12 | Where an exclusion clause controlled by the UCTA is specific to a particular liability the effect of the UCTA is either to render the clause unenforceable ( if the UCTA imposes a total ban ) , or ( if the UCTA imposes the requirement of reasonableness ) to render the clause unenforceable if it fails to satisfy that requirement . |