Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We are the only country that 's been condemned in in the European courts for failing to meet the E C drinking water standards . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | , 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 ) . |
| 13 | To criticize his methods for failing to characterize the dialect accurately is therefore to miss their point . |
| 14 | Guerreiro had been widely criticized among environmentalists and Indian organizations for failing to take a sufficiently active role in defending native peoples ' interests . |
| 15 | Mr Macdonald , his fellow Labour MP Norman Godman , and the Liberal Democrat MPs Ray Michie and Jim Wallace , have been condemned by shellfish growers for failing to understand the orders or their impact . |
| 16 | The Commission can also impose penalties upon parties for failing to provide this information once the Commission has taken a formal decision requesting the information from the parties . |
| 17 | The Prince of Wales has criticized both developed and developing nations for failing to take steps to safeguard the global environment . |
| 18 | Prince Charles was also critical of northern nations for failing to address adequately issues such as global warming , ozone depletion and marine pollution , and to " remove the barriers in the world economic and trading system that make sustainable development in the third world more difficult " . |
| 19 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 20 | The weightlifter was banned from this summer 's Barcelona Olympics for failing a random drugs test , carried out by the Sports Council . |
| 21 | When he is criticised by later elite theorists such as Suzanne Keller for neglecting the relationship of elites to the moral order of society , or by Marxists for failing to analyse the specific material interests involved in the maintenance of their own power by elites. both these two gaps in his theory are at least in part due to the disproportionate attention given to non-logical factors , such as residues , to the detriment of factors , such as interest , associated with rationality or logic . |
| 22 | He was again imprisoned in 1677 for six months for failing to attend the Church of England 's services , but for the remainder of his life was free , devoting himself to his pastoral duties and his writings . |
| 23 | All except Bir Zeit ( on the West Bank ) had now opened or were preparing to open , but Bir Zeit had been informed at the end of August that its closure would be extended by three months for failing to ensure that its campus would not be used as a centre for anti-Israeli activity . |
| 24 | The Borough Council , at a special meeting , decided to entirely discontinue public lighting and fines were imposed at the petty sessions for failing to obscure indoor lights . |
| 25 | And she blasts supermarkets for failing to pass on profits to customers by cutting prices . |
| 26 | It criticised the OECD countries for failing to meet the United Nations ' foreign aid target of 0.7 per cent of their GNPs . |
| 27 | UK Environment Minister David Trippier , speaking to UNEP 's governing council in Nairobi , criticized other European countries for failing to provide adequate support , which he claimed was jeopardizing key UNEP work on global warming and the ozone layer . |
| 28 | Both the Indonesian and Malaysian governments have criticized Western countries for failing to provide assistance to tackle the fires , and have accused the West of demonstrating hypocrisy in attacking forestry policy in the region while failing to respond to the crisis . |
| 29 | Following the recent prosecutions of the BBC and several other major companies for failing to prevent outbreaks of the disease , many premises managers have found that the threat of expensive law suits focuses the mind wonderfully on the need for Rentokil 's Water and Ventilation Service . |
| 30 | It also criticized the electricity companies for failing to take the lead in developing alternative energy sources . |