Example sentences of "fails [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 2 | If the petitioning creditor fails to appear at the hearing of the petition , it would seem that the petition must be dismissed and no subsequent petition by the same creditor can be presented in respect of the same debt without the leave of court ( r 6.26 ) . |
| 3 | The chronic response occurs when the initial increase in cell proliferation fails to compensate for the cell loss . |
| 4 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 5 | The traditional term " content " fails to discriminate between the philosopher 's concepts of SENSE and REFERENCE : what a linguistic form means , and what it refers to . |
| 6 | Also if a civil servant fails to answer to a committee 's satisfaction , the government accept that the appropriate minister should be prepared to come before the committee . |
| 7 | Equally , programming of work may be more complicated , particularly where sub-contract labour fails to conform to the contract programme , or labour is withdrawn . |
| 8 | ‘ Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 9 | A threat to withdraw sponsorship if the Member in question fails to comply with the sponsor 's wishes may well , however , be a breach of privilege . |
| 10 | If the exporter fails to comply with the tender 's conditions and/or enter into the contract , the bank is liable to pay any costs ( limited to the bond 's value ) incurred by the importer in re-awarding the contract . |
| 11 | Section 5 of the Business Names Act 1985 provides that where a person fails to comply with the requirement set out in s. 5 and thereafter seeks to enforce a business contract with a party in default by means of a court action , ( a ) if the person in default can establish that he or she has a claim against the proprietor , which due to the proprietor 's failure to comply with s. 5 he or she has been unable to pursue , or ( b ) if a breach by the proprietor of s. 5 has caused the person in default some financial loss , the proprietor 's claim shall be dismissed , unless it is ‘ just and equitable ’ that the proprietor should be allowed to continue the action . |
| 12 | Where a party fails to comply with the direction for exchange of witness statements , he will not be entitled to adduce evidence to which the direction related without leave of the court ( RSC Ord 38 , r2A(10) ) . |
| 13 | It is true that if Mr. Tully fails to comply with the order of Buckley J. he could be punished for contempt after a hearing in open court and subject to review by an appellate court . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) An authorised person under the FSA who breaches or fails to comply with the Code in certain respects can be called to account by his SRO or RPB and may , in extreme cases , have his membership withdrawn . |
| 15 | If the data user fails to comply with the notice , then the Registrar can issue a ‘ deregistration notice ’ . |
| 16 | If the person in default fails to comply with an abatement notice the local authority is obliged to make a complaint to the magistrates . |
| 17 | Misconstruction of the enabling statute so that the tribunal fails to deal with the question remitted to it , failure to take account of relevant considerations , and asking the wrong question were , said Lord Reid , examples of this . |
| 18 | So he fails to delve under the surface for answers to some pretty fundamental questions . |
| 19 | Season ticket holders will get a FREE pass for the 1993–4 campaign if the club fails to figure in the promotion frame next year . |
| 20 | Continue to bounce the Squig Hopper and continue to attack until it fails to land on a model . |
| 21 | This favours those departments which have been successful in the past , but does not help those others which wish to expand or to improve their standards , and it fails to allow for the creation of new departments . |
| 22 | In the course of describing how a sentence-as-object approach , based exclusively on syntactic descriptions , fails to account for a variety of sentential structures , Kuno ( 1976 ) concludes that ‘ it is time to re-examine every major syntactic constraint from a functional point of view ’ . |
| 23 | These major transformations can not be mapped onto the model of a continuous history , for its stress on putative anticipations fails to account for the way in which the whole form of knowledge can be transformed and a new understanding created . |
| 24 | Viewed from this perspective , we must observe that choice theory signally fails to respond to the hardship suffered by unsuccessful participants in the market . |
| 25 | Suppose by mistake or accident he fails to repay on the day named , is it fair that he should be held to the terms of the deed ? |
| 26 | It is inevitable that during a series of days spent ferreting there will be one occasion or more when a loose ferret , one fitted with a muzzle , fails to return to the surface for one reason or another . |
| 27 | When a don fails to return at the start of term , the shock at the discovery of his body in a Parisian church is well contained in the cloisters . |
| 28 | Miller , speaking from Jersey where Hibs beat an island select 6-0 last night , confirmed that Budgie will be back in goal if Reid fails to recover from the ankle injury that forced him out of the trip . |
| 29 | The £650,000 signing from Leeds could step into the first team if midfielder Steve Hodge fails to recover from the hamstring injury he suffered while training with England last weekend . |
| 30 | LUTON v ASTON VILLA Nielsen , Villa 's Danish defender , will start for the first time if McGrath fails to recover from the hamstring injury which kept him out of the Republic of Ireland team in midweek . |