Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As 30 per cent of YTS graduates fail to find employment at the end of their course it is crucial to understand which groups are able to use the YTS to gain a foothold in the labour market , and those which are unsuccessful . |
| 2 | In the half century since the " Big Book " was written there has been continuing effort to reduce the number of people who fail to find recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 3 | In order to make their claim that his decentred totality is still expressive and therefore essentialist , they have to ignore the arguments about temporality in the critique of the Hegelian essential section as ‘ the co-existence of presence ’ , and thus fail to do justice to the way in which Althusser constructs , as Foucault puts it , ‘ a counter-memory — a transformation of history into a totally different form of time ’ . |
| 4 | The Christian 's concern for the reform of the criminal should never make him either deny the offence or fail to protect society against the offender . |
| 5 | Allow your filter media to become clogged or fail to pay attention to the use of correct media inside the filter and the worst case scenario of toxic water and dead fish can be the end result ! |
| 6 | Too many people spend too much time looking for a reason , and fail to take advantage of the simple pleasures that life offers . ’ |
| 7 | They are frequently written in a way that omits insulin when the blood glucose is within the normal range , and they usually fail to take account of the insulin resistance induced by increased ketone body production . |
| 8 | Arguments around the issue of housework fail to take account of the fact that large numbers of married women with children spend large amounts of their working days outside the home in paid work . |
| 9 | More importantly , they fail to take account of the complications that all generalizations about sex and gender roles have given humanity 's constitutional bisexuality . |
| 10 | Concentrating on the relationships between theories and individual observation statements or sets of them , they fail to take account of the complexity of major scientific theories . |
| 11 | Because private producers fail to take account of the costs they impose on others , in equilibrium the social marginal cost will exceed the social marginal benefit . |
| 12 | Some filopodia simply fail to make contact with the wall and are withdrawn . |
| 13 | That we do not , in the process , undervalue the experience that is already available to us in our own schools and those around us — in particular there is a danger that we fail to make use of the managerial ability which all teachers constantly deploy with children , or that experience which schools in different age sections from our own can give us . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , a child with a roughly similar basic disability is a cause for acute anxiety to the parents , who either make excessive demands or over-protect , and fail to make use of the available care and educational facilities , rapidly rejecting the child altogether as unrewarding and unmanageable , such a child might find low intelligence a severe handicap . |
| 15 | The microorganism must invade the body tissues before infection results and , following invasion , infection will develop only if the body defence mechanisms fail to prevent multiplication of the pathogen . |