Example sentences of "fails [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will therefore be desirable to define the consequences of a failure to perform on time , for instance by stating that " time for performance is of the essence " , or by defining a term as a " condition " or by expressly providing that " if X fails to perform on time in accordance with this provision , Y shall be entitled to terminate this contract " . |
| 2 | The kairos approach , whereby God in God 's good time brings into being a new situation , can only be morally credible if one fails to see in sexism the evil which it is . |
| 3 | PLO fails to agree on peace accord |
| 4 | Whilst it would be an exaggeration to say that the part played by remains true that it is only in an exceptional case that a Government Bill fails to pass into law in substantially the form in which it entered Parliament . |
| 5 | In pintails only the central tail feathers are elongated , so that although lift again fails to increase with length , tail area and thus drag rise only slowly . |
| 6 | Yet with all this incidental detail , the central story of J89 obstinately fails to come to life . |
| 7 | The deletion mutant Myc N ( retaining residues 178 to 439 ) fails to activate in dimerization and in DNA-binding assays ( Fig 3 c ) , but efficiently enhances transactivation by Max-VP16 ( Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 8 | Such arbitrage fails to set in motion the competitive forces that normally close such openings in a market economy . |
| 9 | The Act ( much of which is not yet in force ) requires publication of sample results and permits members of the public to bring legal action against a discharger who fails to comply with consent . |
| 10 | It corresponds to a wave front of light from the star that just fails to escape to infinity but remains hovering at the Schwarzschild radius : 2 GM/c , where G is Newton 's constant of gravity , M is the mass of the star , and c is the velocity of light . |
| 11 | These examples also show how the word-per-sentence measure fails to deal with word complexity : [ 8 ] on this level is more complex than [ 9 ] , which contains no words with more than one morpheme . |
| 12 | Much of modern sociology lacks a paradigm and consequently fails to qualify as science . |
| 13 | In some cases the optic nerve fails to develop before birth . |
| 14 | Haksar 's argument that no violation of moral duty is involved in the practice of satyāgraha as distinct from the threat of coercion , however , fails to take into consideration the difficulties involved in regarding morality as an infallible guide to conduct or an absolute rule . |
| 15 | As for public protection , this depends on executive decisions with regard to release ; it fails to take into account whether it is necessary for public protection to keep ‘ lifers ’ in for so long . |
| 16 | But that fails to take into account the cost of rates , which Labour intend to bring back , uncapped , without any discount for single householders . |
| 17 | This represents nearly 10% of total London area traffic movements and is almost certainly an underestimate , according to Eurotunnel , because it fails to take into account the effects of increasing congestion . |
| 18 | It also fails to take into account the fact that a large number of men were familiar with court proceedings . |
| 19 | The argument is nonsense because it fails to take into account the way women are treated as a matter of course . |
| 20 | Most of the literature that deals with indigenous psychologies fails to take into account the possible variations in this respect between not only the sexes , but between other social categories such as chiefs and commoners . |
| 21 | It also fails to take into account regional differences in prices , and class-based spending customs ( Kincaid 1979 ) . |
| 22 | to keep ‘ important ’ issues off the agenda£ fails to take into account the diversity of media — magazines , journals , books , radio — which allow for an enormous amount of information to find its way into the public domain . |
| 23 | Yet such an assessment ignores the independent forces at work in the interwar years which caused economic performance to fall well below economic potential ; it also fails to take into account the record of poor growth over at least a quarter-century before 1914 . |
| 24 | I might argue that a particular capitalist economist is so embedded in the political and economic structure of the society that employs him that he fails to represent adequately the challenge levelled by ‘ political economy ’ to the perspective he purveys , and thus fails to take into account multiple points of view . |
| 25 | However , what such an analysis fails to take into account is that the evidence of wrong-doing that became so public in the United States would almost certainly have never surfaced in the United Kingdom , given the laws of libel and the willingness of the British people to tolerate secrecy in government . |
| 26 | Manne fails to take into account ‘ what our restraints on insider trading actually gain for us , both economically and in terms of the quality of our society and our human relationships . ’ |
| 27 | This wholly fails to take into account the sensitivities of those in the civil law tradition who see service of process as implying on judicial sovereignty . |
| 28 | If he takes into account matters which he ought not to take into account , or fails to take into account the matters which he ought to take into account , then his decision can be overridden by the courts . |
| 29 | The average Westerner fails to take into account the fact that there are so many weak points on the human body . |
| 30 | This ‘ analogy with the sick ’ adopted by Rees and Barr ( 1984 ) is rightly criticised ( Shiu , 1986 ) , because it fails to take into account research results which indicate that pupils are active in their learning and logical in tackling tasks . |