Example sentences of "fail to take [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palmer subsequently became a member of the council of the Institution and in 1835 was elected one of the vice-presidents ; he was always very attached to the Institution , contributing several interesting papers and seldom failing to take part in the discussions which he considered to be the most valuable part of the meetings . |
| 2 | Efforts to persuade Iraq to pump oil to pay for essential imports , under the terms of UN Resolution 706 [ see pp. 38406 ; 38451 ] , ended in failure on Nov. 24 after six days of talks in Baghdad between government ministers and the head of the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , who told a press conference that " the government of Iraq may be held responsible for failing to take advantage of the window of opportunity … afforded by the arrangement for oil exports and imports of essential needs " , but added that Western governments could alleviate Iraq 's humanitarian problem by releasing all Iraqi assets . |
| 3 | School attendance officers were disliked for failing to take account of the need of some poor families for a child 's income . |
| 4 | More importantly , they fail to take account of the complications that all generalizations about sex and gender roles have given humanity 's constitutional bisexuality . |
| 5 | They are frequently written in a way that omits insulin when the blood glucose is within the normal range , and they usually fail to take account of the insulin resistance induced by increased ketone body production . |
| 6 | Concentrating on the relationships between theories and individual observation statements or sets of them , they fail to take account of the complexity of major scientific theories . |
| 7 | Arguments around the issue of housework fail to take account of the fact that large numbers of married women with children spend large amounts of their working days outside the home in paid work . |
| 8 | Because private producers fail to take account of the costs they impose on others , in equilibrium the social marginal cost will exceed the social marginal benefit . |
| 9 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 10 | To many the Report failed to take account of the lack of homogeneity among LDCs and overlooked various NICs that had achieved success through capitalism , i.e. private enterprise . |
| 11 | By accounting for the development of the mode of production in terms of economic relations only , Marx failed to take account of the development of political forces which also have an effect on the development of the mode of production . |
| 12 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 13 | He spoke of the way Britain failed to take care of the environment and lamented the creeping of towns and the vanishing of the fields and hedgerows , not so much because of the animals as because of the air and the nature of man and the liberty of the soul . |
| 14 | She was always in such a hurry , jumping out of bed and straight into her workaday clothes , that she had failed to take notice of the fact that she was growing into a very shapely young woman . |
| 15 | Though the document was about the laity , it had failed to take account of the views of the laity — at least until the previous spring , by which time it was too late for them to have much influence upon its formulation . |
| 16 | In practice many senior nurses have failed to take account of the ward manager 's contribution , although she has responsibility for directing the efforts of the labour force towards meeting patient needs . |
| 17 | Quite apart from the problem of reconciling these propositions with internationally comparative evidence on rises in real wages , increases in the share of wages in national income , and the growth of the service sector , the analysis fails to take account of the skills created by new technology — skills which have been exploited to powerful effect by those who possess and control them . |
| 18 | Where is the accountability in a policy that fails to take account of the number of people living in a house , and leaves businesses without a vote and at the mercy of local authorities ? |
| 19 | However , the latter point fails to take account of the fact that rape is committed even if there is no ejaculation , and even if the woman is infertile , and it has been strongly argued that ‘ penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration ’ . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , from my point of view , by far the greater part of this material is completely misleading because it fails to take account of the fact that while kinship words in most European languages are applied , with rare exceptions , only to relationships within the private domain and thus have quite specific meanings , the corresponding words in most other languages are highly polysemic . |
| 21 | This definition received , and still receives , much support , although , in the context of helping those with mental disorder , it has been agreed that Wolfensberger 's concept fails to take account of the realities of many mental disorders . |
| 22 | It fails to take account of the practice of the Council for National Academic Awards and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council . |
| 23 | Thus , for instance , a set of terms of sale might require the buyer to take delivery of the goods on receipt of notice that they are ready for delivery and then provide : If the Buyer fails to take delivery of the goods in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Seller shall be entitled to terminate the contract with immediate effect . |