Example sentences of "the [noun sg] fail [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the case failed to resolve several crucial legal and ethical problems , its outcome was hailed as a victory for the growing right-to-die lobby within the USA . |
| 2 | For example : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract , the whole balance then outstanding shall immediately become payable . |
| 3 | The problems which those words can create are illustrated by a provision such as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract , recover goods already delivered and retain all payments already made . |
| 4 | The drafter may be tempted to overcome this problem by using " and/or " , as follows : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract and/or recover goods already delivered and/or retain all payments already made . |
| 5 | Thus , the above provision could be worded as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone or in any combination : ( a ) terminate the contract ( b ) recover goods already delivered ( c ) retain all payments already made . |
| 6 | United was not there — or at least not where Bob Smith expected her — and an SUE charge ( see diagram p. 62 ) tossed over the side failed to attract any attention . |
| 7 | In the second place , the analogy fails to make any distinction between the way bodies behave and the way inanimate objects behave . |
| 8 | An additional internal Chow test conducted by splitting the sample at 1982 Q4 ( coinciding with the end of monetary base control in the US ) and running separate regressions over the two halves of the sample failed to reveal any sign of a structural break . |
| 9 | Example 4:10 Tenant 's power to make time of the essence ( 1 ) if the landlord fails to take any step in the procedure for rent review within a period of time prescribed by this lease ( whether or not that step could also have been taken by the tenant ) the tenant may give the landlord written notice : ( a ) referring to the step which the landlord has failed to take ( b ) requiring the landlord to take that step within such period of not less than 21 days as may be specified in the notice and ( c ) informing the landlord that if he fails to take that step within the period specified in the notice he will be precluded thereafter from taking it and that time is of the essence of the period so specified ( 2 ) if the landlord fails to take the step specified in a notice under paragraph ( 1 ) within the time specified in that notice ( time being of the essence ) he shall thereafter be precluded from taking it |
| 10 | No whore house madam worthy of the name failed to offer this service , but Queen of them all was Mrs Theresa Berkley whose establishment in Charlotte Street was by far the best equipped of all . |
| 11 | However , on Nov. 13 the Assembly failed to approve any of the six versions of a question to be put in a referendum . |
| 12 | Kochan demonstrates how the autocracy failed to absorb these grievances and changes in society . |
| 13 | Although the incidence of intentional or malicious ignition in warehousing can not be determined precisely , it would be unwise in the extreme to fail to take this cause of fire into account . |
| 14 | If in the course of its development observations are made to test the theory , and the theory fails to explain some of them , then it has to be refined to take account of the new observations . |
| 15 | However , the report fails to convey any sense of the complexity and lacunae of research findings and of the difficulties that await those who avail themselves uncritically of them . |
| 16 | Should the steward fail to obey these orders he will be compelled to change his conduct or , like the councillors of Lambeth , Liverpool and Clay Cross , be removed from office . |
| 17 | Foreign Ministers ' discussions later in the year failed to make any breakthrough . |
| 18 | The conditions for the application of the defence are cumulative rather than alternatives , so that if the publisher fails to meet any one of them , the defence fails . |
| 19 | Firstly , mat modules can come apart , and if the referee fails to notice this the competitor may be injured when his foot slips into the gap . |
| 20 | If the dealer failed to do this , commissions he had already earned for selling shares in another company would have been withdrawn . |
| 21 | Chronic under-nutrition will lead to the child 's demanding less and becoming withdrawn so that the mother fails to provide any more . |