Example sentences of "a failure [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , the judge awarded the whole of his estimate of the increased price which would have been obtained whereas the correct measure of damage for a failure to disclose the material facts was the loss to the plaintiff of the chance of negotiating an increased price if he had had the information . |
| 2 | It is often unwise for the plaintiff 's solicitor to disclose the identity of the doctor who will be examining the plaintiff as a failure to disclose a report from a nominated doctor creates the obvious inference that the doctor did not support the plaintiff 's alleged injuries . |
| 3 | While Marx 's own writing does not relate ideology directly to ‘ false consciousness ’ there is in his use of the term a meaning of distortion and a failure to represent ‘ reality ’ while at the same time being determined by material reality . |
| 4 | The most serious consequence of this mystification is a failure to represent the meaning of housework to the actors ( actresses ) themselves . |
| 5 | A combination of vulnerable classes or groups living in vulnerable and ecologically marginal areas in many cases causes a failure to create sufficient income for food to feed themselves . |
| 6 | It is sometimes argued that criticism of the plaintiff after his writ has been issued , and a failure to apologise prior to trial , is evidence of malice . |
| 7 | A failure to apologise , or to publish a retraction , will not normally be evidence of malice , but rather of consistency in holding sincere views . |
| 8 | It is an omission because it represents a failure to continue treatment . |
| 9 | A court might refuse to treat as a disability any condition unlisted , while a failure to exemplify indicative impairments could be a hostage to fortune as courts will tend to construe the protected class narrowly . |
| 10 | This stems largely from a failure to embrace new work practices and is no part of the new deal . |
| 11 | Its only major omission was a failure to spot the Starship virus . |
| 12 | Gandhi would regard it as a failure to preserve or maintain the function of symbols and a degeneration of their purpose . |
| 13 | That , however , does not justify a failure to include in the partnership agreement a clear and effective set of rules ( as to length of notices , coincidence with accounting dates , and so on ) settled with the interests of the firm and its continuing partners as the priority . |
| 14 | For example , a failure to allow a woman employee to return to work after maternity leave is treated as a dismissal , with the termination date being the date notified by her as the date of return . |
| 15 | that the riots did not reflect a failure to carry out the ‘ urgent programme of action ’ recommended by Lord Scarman in 1981 , but were the outcome of a spiralling wave of crime and disorder in inner-city areas . |
| 16 | This can be the outcome of ( a ) a process which selects only those facts which prove a given case , and omits others — an intentional distortion of evidence ; or ( b ) an unwitting omission , a failure to carry out the exhaustive search for evidence which should characterise historical study . |
| 17 | I have already made my views clear : officials have written to every education authority about which we have received evidence of a failure to carry out its statutory duties — and we will continue to pursue the matter vigorously . |
| 18 | The European Commissioner for the environment has said that he believes that there has been a failure to carry out a proper environmental impact assessment . |
| 19 | A failure to carry out necessary work would give rise to liability . |
| 20 | But the major problem with the curriculum has not so much been lack of vision or aims , as a failure to translate aims in a clear and logical way into a curriculum to achieve them . |
| 21 | Temper tantrums are the end result and represent the classic example of perpetuation of immaturity by a failure to stop the ‘ reward ’ of attention that maintains such behaviour . |
| 22 | An early lunch and a failure to return to the office afterwards was not how Derek would have wished to start the week at Fithyan & co . |
| 23 | Since the time of Winckelmann , Goethe and Schiller , the German attempt to recreate the achievement of ancient Greek culture has grown increasingly feebler because of a failure to penetrate into the essence of the Greek spirit . |
| 24 | In one respect the Atkinian neighbour principle and Lord Wilberforce 's opinion in Anns are similar ; they both extend the boundaries of tortious liability in negligence to new areas , the former to product liability , the latter to a failure to inspect a defective building . |
| 25 | However , it goes further than that and implies a lack of awareness of the need for conservation , of future private benefits for individual households and the village ( or larger local community ) as a whole , leading to a failure to mobilise people to give their labour for construction ( even when it will be paid for ) , for maintenance work , and for enforcement where discipline is required ( to control lopping of small seedlings , to exclude livestock from reafforested and other areas and so on ) . |
| 26 | Poor aim is not just a failure to aim properly . |
| 27 | The cyclosporin A/cyclophilin complex inhibits the calcium- and calmodulin-dependent phosphatase , calcineurin , resulting in a failure to activate genes encoding interleukin-2 and other lymphokines . |
| 28 | This results in a failure to activate pepsinogen to pepsi and so denature proteins . |
| 29 | Many things can cause a failure to collect and one of them is the inability of the poor to pay . |
| 30 | Does a failure to give you a pay rise , say on an annual basis , amount to constructive dismissal ? |