Example sentences of "failure [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's handling of the disaster , notably its alleged failure to issue warnings prior to the opening of the sluice-gates of the Mangla Dam to prevent flooding the Indus basin in the south , prompted charges of criminal negligence and incompetence by its political critics and sections of the army . |
| 2 | Thirdly , he may lose his office by failure to attend meetings . |
| 3 | Trial proceedings had already been adjourned since April 15 because of Zhivkov 's failure to attend court on grounds of ill health . |
| 4 | Failure to do so or failure to attend Court on said date may result in the appeal being dismissed . |
| 5 | Failure to attend Court on said date may result in the appeal being dismissed , and a warrant issued for your apprehension . |
| 6 | Application for revocation of an order for committal of the debtor under s 23(7) of the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 must be made to the judge ex parte in writing explaining the reason for failure to attend court or refusing to be sworn or to give evidence , and undertaking to comply in future ( Ord 27 , r 8(2) ) . |
| 7 | In severe cases of failure to thrive admission to hospital provides an environment where close observation of feeding patterns and mother-child interaction can occur ( Goldbloom 1982 ) . |
| 8 | But the failure to see housework in this way is endemic to sociology , and so these possible relationships have not been explored . |
| 9 | Thus Jowell has commented that ‘ the major omission of the report is its failure to see development control 's place in a planning system whose scope has expanded radically since 1968 … somehow development control has not kept pace with this change ’ . |
| 10 | And England manager Keith Fletcher has hinted that the batting line-up for Lord 's will show little change , despite their collective failure to support Gooch 's rearguard action at Old Trafford . |
| 11 | Further investigations will be made into these childrens ' inability to count the number of sounds in a word by tapping them out and their failure to perform rhyme judgements : both tasks which have been thought , hitherto , to be essential to adequate sound-letter mapping . |
| 12 | By contrast with their failure to affect habituation , the protein synthesis inhibitors did produce amnesia for associative learning . |
| 13 | Another major way in which the social security system discriminates on the grounds of age is in its failure to acknowledge disability among older people . |
| 14 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 15 | For a variety of reasons , however , the failure to include mechanisms for dealing with non-words in one 's model of the mental lexicon is not unimportant . |
| 16 | However , an inadequate indicator may be preferable to no indicator ; failure to include death rates in the formula would mean that funds were even less related to need than at present . |
| 17 | A speaker who asked questions expecting the answer ‘ True ’ sometimes incorporated an elaborated irony by which he attacked the revolution for its failure to uphold principles and policies to which he was , and was known to be , utterly opposed . |
| 18 | The removal of frontier controls is being held up by failure to harmonise VAT and excise duties . |
| 19 | He said Britain 's withdrawal from the exchange rate mechanism last September was caused partly by Government failure to agree Britain 's level of entry in advance with the German central bank . |
| 20 | Or alternately if it was n't then we would discuss it again on the Thursday and if it was a failure to agree situation , then we just registered failure to agree with the management . |
| 21 | Disagreement may arise from failure to agree facts or amounts included in the accounts . |
| 22 | The risk that failure to agree terms could result in the outgoing partner seeking a formal dissolution of the firm on peremptory notice is one which is not worth running . |
| 23 | Italy 's failure to implement EC directives have resulted in it being taken to the European Court of Justice more times than any other country in 1989 . |
| 24 | The consistent failure to implement findings has given rise to cynicism regarding research . |
| 25 | Consequently , not only may inadvertent delay or failure to implement decisions go undetected but officers may attempt to ‘ amend ’ or ‘ shelve ’ decisions which they dislike ( see Greenwood and Wilson , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | One cause of friction was the discontent of BIA officers over the failure to implement promises of independence made publicly by General Iida of the Japanese army when the BIA first entered Tavoy in the south . |
| 27 | The difficulties encountered in treating vasculitic ulcers were referred to by four nurses , and of the ‘ steroid skin ’ by a further two , while two recognised their failure to heal ulcers was due to patients ' unstable diabetes , and one called for a clinical specialist with specific knowledge of leg ulcers to advise on difficult cases . |
| 28 | Further criticism came from foreign commentators who found his espousal of Western ideas too selective by far , taking him to task for his autocratic style , for underpinning his regime with the repressive Savak security apparatus , his sybaritic leisure-image — notably featuring snow and sun at St Moritz — and his failure to uproot corruption in his entourage . |
| 29 | The problem has not been Black people 's failure to report incidents , but police failure to act by providing support and protection to Black victims and taking action against perpetrators . |
| 30 | There was no consensus about whether or not this high rate reflected a higher amount of crime , or if the difference could be attributed to false cases in Sri Lanka or the failure to report crime in India . |