Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have failed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the giving of notice will establish the priority of the purchaser against the debtor ahead of any other assignee of the vendor who has failed to give notice of assignment to the debtor ( see Dearl v Hall [ 1828 ] 3 RUS 1 ) . |
| 2 | ( c ) Enforcement of judgments Where there has been a judgment against the firm , execution may be issued against : ( 1 ) assets of the firm ; or ( 2 ) any person who has acknowledged service as a partner ; or ( 3 ) any person served as a partner who has failed to acknowledge service ; or ( 4 ) any person who has admitted in his pleading to being a partner or who has been found by the court to be a partner . |
| 3 | Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice . |
| 4 | ( b ) Contributory negligence This defence will apply in actions under the Act , and a visitor who has failed to use reasonable care for his own safety and that failure was a cause of his damage will have his damages reduced . |
| 5 | While individuals may be seeking : ( 1 ) freedom to advance their careers by moving on to other firms , but " job security " in the meanwhile ; ( 2 ) payment , on death or retirement , of the full value of their partnership shares ( including capital contributions , undrawn profits , goodwill etc ) ; and ( 3 ) upon death and/or retirement from practice , financial security for themselves and their families , the firm 's priorities in the interests of preserving profitability are likely to be concentrated on : ( 1 ) the need to impose restrictions on the freedom of partners to leave without adequate notice and/or thereafter to compete with the firm ; ( 2 ) the ability to remove from the firm any partner who has failed to meet proper professional standards who is disruptive or who is not seen to be pulling his weight ; and ( 3 ) the need to minimise the strain on the firm 's finances when a partner leaves whilst recognising a certain moral responsibility towards the family of a deceased partner . |
| 6 | He is another who has failed to maintain a grip on the advancing technology of credit and payment . |
| 7 | Fourthly , a member who has failed to make the declaration of acceptance of office ( see ante , p. 28 ) automatically ceases to be a member . |
| 8 | The former Arsenal and England midfielder , who has failed to win a regular first team place during his 16 months at Elland Road , complained bitterly at the weekend after being dropped for the home game against Swindon . |
| 9 | Here , too , the word ‘ spinster ’ evokes an ugly , lonely woman who has failed to get her man . |
| 10 | The roll-call of young hopefuls looked to be crammed with too many no-hopers , too many Sheffield-based bands who 'd failed to progress from local lustre to national notoriety . |
| 11 | However , we came across many examples of teachers who had failed to tackle the imperative of genuinely shared planning ostensibly working alongside each other in pursuit of shared goals . |
| 12 | Knowing the King , as he believed , Nicholas had always assumed that now , through his placing at table , Zacco would take his chance to belittle in public this favoured commander who had failed to give him his kingdom as promised . |
| 13 | This study showed that the homoeopathic remedies were an extremely effective way of managing many patients who had failed to respond to conventional therapies . |
| 14 | Later , after various discussions had taken place , and LIFESPAN mail messages had been sent to a manager who had failed to respond , the originator of the latest DC received two agreements and one rejection . |
| 15 | They were taken up by the fast-running forwards to outplay and outwit the slow and often clumsy defensive play of oppositions who had failed to grasp the significance of the changed offside rules . |
| 16 | Before the changes earlier this year , the thief , the receiver of stolen goods or the finder of property who had failed to declare his find to the proper authorities , never acquired title to that property . |
| 17 | Note was also taken , if regretfully , of the questionable conduct of our Legal Adviser de Palfrey — I even got my de back * — who had failed to justify his use of the Home Secretary 's delegated authority in the full knowledge that this was required of him by the secretly agreed Procedures Governing the Service 's Activities as Amended by etcetera , and in accordance with paragraph something of a deniable Home Office protocol . |
| 18 | He was raving at Maurin , at all the people who had failed to live up to his expectations of them . |
| 19 | Now the nurse from the clinic was visiting the school again , and Frankie was the only boy in his class who had failed to return his slip of paper duly signed by a parent or guardian . |
| 20 | It is evident that the defeat of the Austrian Socialists was felt more strongly in Britain than that of the Germans , who had failed to put up an armed resistance and who were divided by the struggle between the Communists and the Social Democrats . |
| 21 | The pope was father in God to the Romans , and to all men ; he was St Peter in person , the earthly representative of the apostle on whom the fame and fortune of the city most depended ; but he was also a petty tyrant — one of the ancient rulers who had failed to go away ; the symbol of all that was alien to the new found liberty so loved by the Italian city dwellers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 22 | Two of them — who had failed to pay — are run by Mr Cowell . |
| 23 | The Law Society could reciprocate with information on solicitors who had failed to renew their practising certificates . |
| 24 | However , it was to the small farmer and small businessman , the very people who had failed to colonise the east , individuals who felt themselves beset by Poles , Jews and communists in ways they could not articulate , that the Nazis were to make their main appeal . |
| 25 | If you would like to look at the second sheet on your erm of the two that you 've got , erm this really brings to mind , one day in St Aldate 's , in the summer of 1643 , when a very hard working , methodical loyal official , Edward Heath , was ordered by the King and his Council to walk around St Aldate 's , and make a list of all the defaulters , all those who had failed to work on the fortifications . |
| 26 | After a reception for nearly 150 guests , my right cheek was red and raw : a result of male guests who had failed to have an afternoon shave . |
| 27 | The fact that a significant number of the independents who were elected were DLP sympathizers who had failed to secure party endorsement as candidates , meant that most observers expected Roh to be able to construct a working majority within the new Assembly . |
| 28 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 29 | Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition , should it not be properly accomplished , and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference . |
| 30 | The temptation to take the easy way out was well-nigh irresistible with youngsters who had failed to make their way ( probably through no fault of their own ) and who showed their resentment . |