Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most importantly , they fail to acknowledge the genuine lessons of Marx 's work , as , for example , reflected in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ) , in which the significance of artefacts is seen to consist in their simultaneous operation in both the material and cognitive worlds , thereby exposing the artificiality of a dichotomous approach . |
| 2 | The Hunters must be destroyed , and the liberals and voices who fail to support the Chosen Path must be annihilated . |
| 3 | Likewise , the reactive home medic may panic at the first sign of trouble , fail to diagnose the true cause of the problem and , in adding a so-called ‘ remedy ’ , do more harm than good . |
| 4 | If they fail to meet the playing average , they are told to ‘ go away and practise ’ for the next four weeks and are unable to enter any tournaments . |
| 5 | It may be thought , however , that the Morgan decision would offer insufficient protection to some women who just fail to meet the statutory criteria . |
| 6 | They fail to benefit the acquiring bank and destroy some of its value . |
| 7 | Your ability to write and argue is of little avail if you get your facts wrong , fail to find the relevant authorities , rely on a statute that has been superseded or a case that has been overruled , or simply misunderstand the authorities . |
| 8 | If , however , different teachers experience different problems of this nature and often fail to discover the full range of options that the program offers , it will indicate that the driving system of the program is too complex and obscure and most certainly needs modifying . |
| 9 | He argues that portfolio matrices fail to indicate the considerable risks faced in diversification . |
| 10 | It is further argued that financial markets fail to reflect the collective rate at which society wants to save and invest . |
| 11 | An additional problem that arises from using large lexicons is that , should the pattern recogniser fail to detect the correct word , then incorrect words are more likely to be suggested . |
| 12 | She watched her long jump protoge Yinka Idowu sadly fail to reach the long jump final after opening with two no jumps . |
| 13 | If British consumers fail to buy the new models , European Community-devised satellite broadcasting norms could mean millions of viewers finding themselves watching a distorted picture , or being forced to buy a decoder costing up to £200 . |
| 14 | Suppose somebody read to you , without telling you the author , but telling you the date — the early seventeenth century lines like this ‘ But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale and love the high embowered rough with antique pillars and and storeyed windows richly dyked , casting a dim religious light , there let the pealing organ blow to the full-voiced choir below in service high and anthems clear , as may with sweetness through mine ear dissolve me into ecstasies and bring all heaven before my eyes . |
| 15 | What makes the commentators on man-godhood and related themes misleading , why they fail to evoke the real thing , is that they suggest an object which is stable and personal ( as opposed to volatile and transpersonal ) . |
| 16 | Above that limit the bassoons begin to sound rather thin and thus fail to fulfil the desired object . |
| 17 | I remarked above that von Uexkull 's pictures fail to express the phenomenological quality of what it is like to be a sea-urchin , fly , or dog — or , one might add , a bat ( Nagel 1974 ) . |
| 18 | Sometimes parents fail to give the true reason why something upsets them because they think the youngster is not old enough to know about such things . |
| 19 | Under current practice , companies involved in conducting genetic experiments on animals destroy the carcasses of those which fail to incorporate the new genes under experimentation . |
| 20 | I believe that those sexual practices which fail to recognise the essential humanity of other people are bad ; the man who rapes an unwilling partner , the individual who takes delight in the infliction of pain upon a partner who does not desire it , or the one who forces another into any sexual practice which is obnoxious to him or her is using the " partner " as an object rather than interacting with him or her as a human being . |
| 21 | I would like to see contractors ' charging policy completely reviewed , so we can be sure that we are not locked into ‘ historic costing methods ’ that fail to recognise the considerable advances in main and service laying technology . |
| 22 | Christian feminists often fail to recognize the crucial nature of symbolism . |
| 23 | The letter stresses that we breach the European directive in that we fail to consider the environmental impact of the station and the high-speed link together , as a whole , with all the direct and indirect consequences . |
| 24 | Wildavsky ( 1964 , p. 127 ) is very critical of budget reformers , typically accountants , economists or systems analysts who fail to consider the political consequences of their reforms . |
| 25 | The poll results suggest that many parents still fail to understand the grant-maintained system . |
| 26 | The adoral shields are wing shaped , with very angular lateral projections and separate or just fail to separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 27 | Many organizations fail to disclose the corporate mission , strategy , and business objectives to their employees , fearing that knowledge of this would provide the competition with an advantage . |
| 28 | A reader can be fully understanding a section from a story , and yet fail to insert the exact word in a phrase such as " watched the fleeting panorama of shop fronts " , when no other information about the shop fronts is given . |
| 29 | Occasionally the police drop by to complain about the noise , but they do so only after midnight , and they fail to notice the incessant smell of dope , sharp as burning leaves . |
| 30 | One acoustic theory is immediately exploded : that a whisper on stage could be heard up in the back row ( Greek guides conveniently fail to take the wooden superstructure into account ) . |