Example sentences of "has fail [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He has failed to give a timetable for the implementation of those proposals , to set out a schedule which would carry weight and to tackle the problems at base .
2 The new county of Cleveland created after the local government re-organisation of 1974 has failed to create a sense of identity amongst its inhabitants and many still feel a sense of belonging to North Yorkshire .
3 PI has failed to create a package module .
4 But Allan has failed to pinpoint a problem and believes the heavy ground was to blame .
5 PI has failed to generate a root package module .
6 PI has failed to add a request for moving modules across the network to your LIFESPAN Authorisation file in your default directory .
7 By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available .
8 PI has failed to approve a package ( and its modules ) .
9 The defendant may defend on the return day even if he has failed to file a defence ( Ord 9 , r 9(2) ) .
10 His is the fourth UN mission which has failed to find a way out of the crisis .
11 The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere .
12 A thumb through the timetable has failed to locate a station called Hexham Auck , though Bishop Auckland is more familiar , of course .
13 It does not matter why a State has failed to become a party to a treaty , or whether it is eligible to become a party and intends at some time to do so .
14 So far the Secretary of State has failed to get a grip on the spiral of decline in planning standards in some of the most beautiful areas of Wales .
15 De Vito treats Hoffa as a tragic American hero but , despite the possibilities of a Godfather-like plot , there is a hole at the centre of the film where scriptwriter David Mamet has failed to supply a reason why Hoffa was the exceptional man he undoubtedly was .
16 He is another who has failed to maintain a grip on the advancing technology of credit and payment .
17 Labourism has failed to produce a politics of private life which is not patriarchal ; at best it pities the dole-queue mothers , at worst it scorns them .
18 However , notice need not be given where the defendant does not appear , or where in a fixed date action he has failed to deliver a defence in time .
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