Example sentences of "failure to find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these early years , equations similar to the Lorenz system ( Chapter 6 ) { 35 } were written down , both for lasers and masers , but failure to find a practical system in either spectral region which was adequately described by these equations , plus of course the abundance of other avenues opened up by the development of lasers , led to a rather quiescent phase lasting till the resurgence of interest in the late 197Os . |
| 2 | The greatest obstacle to the acceptance of the drift hypothesis was not so much the nature of this supporting evidence ( although alternative explanations were readily proffered ) but rather the failure to find a convincing mechanism by which it could occur . |
| 3 | The failure to find a referent results in a numerical penalty being awarded to the reading for which it occurs . |
| 4 | The practice of stopping NSAIDs before investigation or starting H 2 antagonists for a clinical diagnosis of peptic ulceration seems to be in the patients ' best interests if a delay in endoscopy is unavoidable , but may lead to failure to find a definitive cause for the anaemia . |
| 5 | Gordon suggested that the failure to find a left ear superiority for melodies , in contrast to Kimura 's ( 1964 ) results , might have been due to differences in the rhythm and/or pitch of the stimuli employed by himself and by Kimura . |