Example sentences of "[noun sg] for failing to take " in BNC.

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1 In Town Ali , too , slammed the play for failing to take sides .
2 It criticized the Ministry of Education for failing to take into account the social and economic context of the school-age population particularly their nutritional and health needs and the job options open to them .
3 * Greenpeace has criticized the Israeli government for failing to take steps to cut production of methyl bromide .
4 The company claims not to have defaulted on the NAB loan and criticised the bank for failing to take account of the ‘ extraordinary financial difficulties ’ being faced throughout the country 's business community because of high interest rates .
5 The preceding discussion of law 's self-imposed limits and the consequent silence of those whose lives are largely lived in private is intended to criticize instrumentalism for failing to take account of ideology , ‘ the sum of the ways in which people both live and represent to themselves their relationship to the conditions of their existence ’ .
6 In February 1290 he received appointment as one of two commissioners to hear complaints against the king 's officials in London , but later the same month was himself convicted with his colleagues in the 1286 Norfolk eyre of judicial misconduct for failing to take appropriate action on two presentments made at the eyre .
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