Example sentences of "fails [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article fails to emphasise the two most important tenets of safe prescribing of aminoglycosides — namely , that they should be used only if clinically justified and that they should be stopped as soon as the patient 's condition permits . |
| 2 | Second , the notion of a continuum of restriction ranging from community penalties to custody — neat as it sounds — fails to acknowledge the unique and painful experience of imprisonment . |
| 3 | Despite creating a theory with a series of levels of semiosis it fails to support the substantive analyses in Mythologies where Barthes 's examples show that it is not merely the formal structure of signification that he is interested in . |
| 4 | If Tanzania 's ban fails to secure the required two-thirds majority , the Cites secretariat is ready to propose a range of measures to tighten control on the trade . |
| 5 | To avoid customers being prejudiced in this way , a firm must not effect a contingent liability transaction unless it can show that it believes on reasonable grounds that the customer understands : ( 1 ) The circumstances under which he may be required to provide any margin ; ( 2 ) Particulars of the form in which the margin may be provided ; ( 3 ) Particulars of the steps which the firm may be entitled to take if the customer fails to provide the required margin ; ( 4 ) That failure by the customer to meet a margin call may lead to the firm closing out his position after time limits specified by the firm , and that the firm will be required to close out the position in any event after a period of five business days ; and ( 5 ) That circumstances other than failure to provide margin may lead to the customer 's position being closed out with prior reference to him . |
| 6 | By saying , " How odd " in response to McKendrick 's giving of his own name he fails to provide the second pair part of the adjacency pair ( Schegloff and Sacks 1973 ) which constitutes a greeting . |
| 7 | If Mr Kaifu fails to revive the parliamentary bill designed to support the anti-Iraq forces in the Gulf , the Americans are likely to ask for a lot more than the $4 billion Japan has so far promised to contribute towards the growing expenses there . |
| 8 | A finance lease normally provides for rentals to vary should the lessor 's cashflow not be as expected , for example if he fails to obtain the expected allowances or there is a change in the rate of tax . |
| 9 | ‘ It fails to meet the central question in Scottish politics which is that any change which is to be meaningful must involve the transfer of political and legislative authority from Westminster to a parliament elected in Scotland by Scots . |
| 10 | This reasoning fails to meet the logical objection , identified some years earlier by Lord Devlin , that a ‘ purpose must exist in the mind . |
| 11 | This was enacted in 1944 and uses criminal prosecution as a sanction for an employer who fails to meet the disabled quota . |
| 12 | But if Gorbachev fails to meet the considerable expectations he has aroused , we may find there is plenty of rebound in the conservative cause . |
| 13 | Announcing the decision in parliament , Transport Secretary John MacGregor said the £300 million East London River Crossing scheme " fails to meet the high environmental standards we now apply to new road schemes " . |
| 14 | If the " invention " fails to meet the rigorous standards required for patentability , these and other forms of protection may still apply . |
| 15 | They referred to the ‘ traditional restraint , from which all other branches of inquiry have long been emancipated ’ : ecclesiastical interests and party predilections , which meant that theology ‘ fails to receive the intellectual respect and confidence which are readily accorded to learning and research in any other field ’ . |
| 16 | Besides , dumping at sea is cheap , and so it fails to reflect the possible environmental costs imposed on future generations . |
| 17 | The government 's anti-crisis programme , unveiled this week ( see page 93 ) , is brave in parts but fails to tackle the essential task of privatisation and can not work without the agreement of republican governments . |
| 18 | Expressing such a duty as a duty to further the interests of the enterprise is unhelpful , however , since the formulation has very limited information content : it fails to identify the relevant constituencies and gives no indication of what priority should be afforded to them inter se . |
| 19 | Secondly , the use of the single term ‘ learning ’ fails to suggest the radical change in approach and attitude required of staff in institutions , if students are to be enabled to pass through all the possible stages of intellectual growth . |
| 20 | The Firetail Rasbora is active and pretty , but fails to excite the average hobbyist . |
| 21 | Please encourage people to contribute to this fund as it consistently fails to cover the annual costs of the education of our students for the priesthood . |
| 22 | Friends of the Earth water campaigner Linda Stupples said : ‘ The report fails to discuss the real options and blindly assumes the consumer either has to pay up or put up with polluted water . |
| 23 | Contract is one such lump concept , since it fails to differentiate the archetypal bargain of the nineteenth century from the type of contracts which feature in modern business activity ( for example , the long-term contract ) . |
| 24 | The Treasury instructed the Inland Revenue to obtain information from California-based companies in the UK on the probable impact of retaliatory measures which would be taken in the first instance against them if the US Government fails to resolve the continued burden of unitary tax on foreign-owned companies in the state by the end of the year . |
| 25 | For all its undoubted talents , chief of which are its chassis , cabin and controls , the 300SL-24 fails to do the same . |
| 26 | Where the section states ‘ he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe ’ this applies to the situation where the occupier knows or is aware of the primary facts but fails to draw the reasonable inference that the premises are dangerous or that the non-visitor 's presence is likely . |
| 27 | If DOS fails to match the first word of your input to its list of internal commands , it will start looking on the hard disk for a COM , EXE or BAT file with that name . |
| 28 | But , although Jacques claims that it is massively frustrating to watch Julie tripping round the flat half-naked and not be able to touch her , Mr Moore fails to project the necessary dashed and deviant desire . |
| 29 | He travels to London , but fails to interest the British scientific or military establishment in his theories concerning atomic energy . |
| 30 | Walker fails to question the given definitions of femininity . |