Example sentences of "fails [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The developer will be obliged to use his best endeavours to resolve outstanding problems and the vendor himself may independently attempt to meet the conditions imposed by the contract , if the developer fails to proceed with due diligence . |
| 2 | But actually , every enfranchised citizen under 60 is expected to turn up , and there is a fine waiting for anyone who fails to attend without good reason . |
| 3 | So public housing fails to provide for personal mobility in changing relationships , or for different needs that people may have . |
| 4 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 5 | If , for example , a person fails to respond to natural treatment and is in a great deal of discomfort , or in life or death situations ( road accidents , congenital organ dysfunction , and so forth ) drug intervention may be vital . |
| 6 | Regardless of whether the minor or anyone else with authority to do so consents to the treatment , that practitioner will be liable to the minor in negligence if he fails to advise with reasonable skill and care and to have due regard to the best interests of his patient . |
| 7 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |