Example sentences of "[noun] for failing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anti-green lobby will have to find better reasons for failing to clean up motoring . |
| 2 | Ideally he should have indicated to them that there might be other reasons for failing to reply , other than guilt . |
| 3 | And this he can do unless there are restrictions on the transferability of the shares or unless there are good reasons for failing to apply for registration . |
| 4 | THE Commander of a US Air Force base in Britain has been reprimanded by the Ministry of Defence for failing to hand over a rape suspect to British police , trying him instead at a court martial . |
| 5 | Thirdly , he reaffirmed that it was essential to strengthen the rule of law within the Community and that in order to achieve a greater degree of enforcement and implementation of European rules , the European Court of Justice should be given the power to fine member states for failing to comply with court judgements . |
| 6 | Pub landlords say they face bankruptcy because they 're being fined thousands of pounds by their brewery for failing to meet sales targets . |
| 7 | In Saddleworth Urban District Council v Aggregate and Sand Ltd. it was held that lack of finance was not a reasonable excuse for failing to comply with a nuisance order under s.94 of the Public Health Act 1936 , in respect of an abatement notice served under s.1 of The Noise Abatement Act 1960 and s.93 of the 1936 Act . |
| 8 | Where the meaning of the statutory words is plain and unambiguous it is not for the judges to invent fancied ambiguities as an excuse for failing to give effect to its plain meaning because they themselves consider that the consequences of doing so would be inexpedient , or even unjust or immoral . |
| 9 | Old-timers who censure today 's superstars for failing to emulate the three GPs in a day performances of Hailwood and Co are blind to the advances of science . |
| 10 | We are the only country that 's been condemned in in the European courts for failing to meet the E C drinking water standards . |
| 11 | The High Court confirmed an award of penalties by the General Commissioners against a taxpayer for failing to provide the information required by a precept in Stoll v High Wycombe General Commissioners and IRC [ 1992 ] STI 212 . |
| 12 | In February it publicly reprimanded the insurer for failing to be tough enough with its agents . |
| 13 | Now that the election has been announced , will the Minister take the opportunity to apologise to the industry 's workers and employers for failing to do anything to protect them in the past 13 years ? |
| 14 | GREAT Britain full back Graham Steadman has been fined £1,000 for failing a drugs test after the last match of this summer 's Lions tour . |
| 15 | I place firmly in the Government 's lap the responsibility for failing to tackle crime . |
| 16 | In Town Ali , too , slammed the play for failing to take sides . |
| 17 | The heir to the Blenheim Palace Estate is facing a jail sentence for failing to make maintenance payments to his wife Becky who lives at Kiddington in Oxfordshire . |
| 18 | The Marquess of Blandford , who 's heir to the Blenheim Estate in Oxfordshire , has started a jail sentence for failing to make maintence payments to his wife . |
| 19 | He was released yesterday from Pentonville prison where he had been due to serve a 112-day sentence for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance arrears to estranged wife Becky . |
| 20 | Just five months after returning to football after a lengthy ban for failing a drugs test , the temperamental star faces a showdown tomorrow with Sevilla officials . |
| 21 | A lead story in Bob Gledhill 's column headlined ‘ Beware of Non-Fishing Bureaucrats ’ ( November 24 issue ) criticised one of local boat clubs for failing to invest in electric winches and described the committee as ‘ armchair rulers . ’ |
| 22 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 23 | In the late 1620s , some Calvinists attempted to obstruct the collection of money for the repair of St Paul 's , and throughout the 1630s large numbers of churchwardens were summoned to appear before the ecclesiastical authorities for failing to introduce the required changes to the lay-out of their churches . |
| 24 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |
| 25 | , English Nature has been strongly criticized by environmental groups for failing to go through with plans to designate a threatened peat bog as a site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ) . |
| 26 | Greenwich Council is facing legal action for failing to house a young woman who was assessed as in need . |
| 27 | He was eventually banned by the Italian Football Association for failing a drugs test and virtually had to be smuggled out of the country in the dark of night to save his sanity back home in Argentina . |
| 28 | To criticize his methods for failing to characterize the dialect accurately is therefore to miss their point . |
| 29 | The Marquess was sent to Pentonville prison on Tuesday for failing to obey a High Court order to pay arrears of £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky and their son George . |
| 30 | Blandford was sent to Pentonville on Tuesday for failing to comply with the High Court order to pay the arrears . |