Example sentences of "fails [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the books a writer fails to write in his adolescence are of a different nature from the books he fails to write once he has announced his profession . |
| 2 | Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will . |
| 3 | A local authority which ignores this principle of good practice or fails to comply with its duty to provide services may find it difficult to persuade a court to grant a care or supervision order . |
| 4 | A receiver who fails to comply with his reporting obligations can be ordered to do so and , more importantly , he can be disqualified from acting as a receiver or manager . |
| 5 | Despite Mrs McGill 's endeavours in the domestic sphere , her competence in this regard fails to emerge in her son 's considerations of her . |
| 6 | ( b ) by finding that a domestic statute passed prior to entry is repealed by implication by the European Communities Act 1972 in so far as it fails to accord with our community obligations and thus does not represent the latest intention of Parliament ; |
| 7 | But his definition of style , like Jakobson 's of poetry , fails to allow for its multiplicity and changeability , even if it points to an important possible source of literary effect ; and in his claims concerning readers ' responses he attributes to these a degree of regularity which to many must seem quite unrealistic . |
| 8 | If the board fails to respond to your weight , this is an indication that , either you are not travelling fast enough , or your weight is not far enough back on the board . |
| 9 | The various departments ’ relations with Parliament , with outside bodies and professions are all governed by the same consideration that the minister is in charge and that he can be attacked ( in or out of Parliament ) for anything that happens or fails to happen in his department . |
| 10 | A company ( and every officer of it who is in default ) which fails to annex to its memorandum of association the court order sanctioning the scheme is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one-fifth of the statutory maximum ( CA 1985 , s425(4) and Sched 24 ) . |
| 11 | Like dreaming about a familiar place , and in the dream it fails to correspond to your memory of it . |