Example sentences of "a failure [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A failure to reach the genital stage in adolescence is , of course , a consequence of failure to resolve the Oedipus complex satisfactorily . |
| 2 | Such errors may result from a failure to identify the appropriate grapheme ( e.g. , " whose " " hows " , and " straight " " strat " ) , or a failure to segment the appropriate phoneme correctly ( e.g. , " except " " exersept " , and " vehicle " " vercal " ) . |
| 3 | But equally well , of course , you may have a brilliant tactical win and through a failure to appreciate the strategic significance of what is going on , throw away the game . |
| 4 | These doubts stem from a failure to appreciate the many ways in which the communal character of political authorities affects their claim to legitimacy vis-a-vis each individual . |
| 5 | They suggest that this may partly be due to a failure to sustain the successful community based health education activities of the early and mid-1980s . |
| 6 | A failure to defend the Protestant heritage will cause God to remove from us what benefits remain . |
| 7 | The term ‘ developmental ’ here indicates that there has been a failure to acquire the relevant linguistic skill ( the use of spoken language , reading or writing ) at the normal rate , during the course of development . |
| 8 | The first was based on the concept that a contract might contain a fundamental term — a core obligation — so that a failure to perform the fundamental term would amount to a total failure to perform the contract . |
| 9 | How far the concessionary nature of the market has resulted in a failure to explore the real and potential needs of older consumers is shown in a recent study of leisure opportunities . |
| 10 | I would reject the argument advanced before us that a failure to follow the judicial advice on tariff , save in exceptional cases , is in itself irrational . |
| 11 | Yet vagueness in stating the task or problem can often create resistance or a failure to accept the delegated task simply because the subordinate is not entirely clear what it is you want done . |
| 12 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 13 | A. A common cause for the seemingly apparent inefficiency of protein skimmers is a failure to renew the wooden airstone at regular intervals . |
| 14 | Such errors may result from a failure to identify the appropriate grapheme ( e.g. , " whose " " hows " , and " straight " " strat " ) , or a failure to segment the appropriate phoneme correctly ( e.g. , " except " " exersept " , and " vehicle " " vercal " ) . |
| 15 | While it has the virtue of indicating vast new areas worthy of study , this model suffers from a failure to identify the relative significance of its many components . |
| 16 | An omission of the first would lead to a failure to specify the physical processes of soil erosion , their spatial variability and interaction , and indeed the immediate causal variables such as slope , soil structure , vegetative cover , land use , rainfall intensity and so on . |
| 17 | Physiologically , there is a failure to select the right agonist muscles in advance of rapid and precise movement ; a delay in switching from one movement to another ; and a defect in simultaneously activating different parts of the body . |
| 18 | In spite of the fact that the village was designated as a key settlement , there has been a sharp fall in new housing because of a failure to provide the necessary improvement to the sewerage system . |
| 19 | The ever-rising statistics of delinquency and crime , and particularly violent crime , probably result in large part from a failure to establish the paternal authority in childhood and with it the normal , positive resolution of the Oedipus complex which it produces . |
| 20 | This ‘ mistake ’ is itself the result of a failure to recognize the ontological status of the novel , i.e. the irreducible indeterminacy which leaves it open to multiple interpretations . |
| 21 | A failure to achieve the annual Gramm-Rudman targets would trigger automatic spending cuts spread equally between defence and social programmes . |