Example sentences of "fails [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | If the person in default fails to comply with an abatement notice the local authority is obliged to make a complaint to the magistrates . |
| 4 | Continue to bounce the Squig Hopper and continue to attack until it fails to land on a model . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |