Example sentences of "[noun prp] for failing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Blandford was sent to Pentonville on Tuesday for failing to comply with the High Court order to pay the arrears . |
| 3 | Centre-right parties had called for his resignation in February for failing to take effective action against former members of the now dissolved StB security service . |
| 4 | The Democratic speaker of the Texas House of Representative , Gib Lewis , was indicted in December for failing to report a gift from a local law firm . |
| 5 | Wallis is critical of Gusfield for failing to provide evidence of motivation in his study of WCTU participants in the movement . |
| 6 | The report by Lord Justice Bingham on the collapse in July 1991 of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) [ see p. 38355 ] was published on Oct. 22 , strongly criticizing the Bank of England for failing properly to supervise and regulate BCCI , but stating that UK Treasury officials and ministers for their part were not open to criticism . |
| 7 | He blamed the ANC for failing to provide until April 25 a list of names of other political prisoners . |
| 8 | Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so . |
| 9 | A report yesterday blamed driver Maurice Graham for failing to brake properly . |
| 10 | This question-begging objection , which assumes a mutual dependence between individual agents and social practices and then upbraids Althusser for failing to take account of it , is often made . |
| 11 | The Aga Khan , one of the sport 's leading owner-breeders , seems to have accepted that his three-and-a-half year challenge to the decision to disqualify Aliysa for failing a dope test after winning the 1989 Oaks has run its course . |
| 12 | The Basque troubles are seen by most Spaniards as so tangled that they do not blame the current Socialist government of Felipe Gonzalez for failing to end the strife . |
| 13 | But ICAS has criticised Mr Lamont for failing to take action to allow businesses to claim tax relief for expenses incurred after they have ceased trading . |
| 14 | The report criticized both Ridley , for failing to hand the matter over to the courts , and Lord Young for failing to refer the takeover to the MMC , and put forward over 30 recommendations for the strengthening of financial regulations . |
| 15 | To upbraid Eden for failing to give the green light to the Home Office 's draft four-clause Commonwealth Immigrants Bill , is a bit harsh . |
| 16 | He criticised Mr Heseltine for failing to find a market for one single extra tonne of coal while Richard Caborn , the Labour chairman of the Commons energy select committee , claimed that all 31 pits would be closed within three to four years . |
| 17 | The IAEA , holding an emergency meeting in Vienna , passed on July 18 a motion censuring Iraq for failing to allow inspection of its nuclear programme ( the UN 's Special Commission on Iraq having reportedly described as " premature " a claim by Perricos that Iraq had " come clean " on its nuclear programme ) . |
| 18 | The episode ended in the Bay of Pigs disaster , with Cuban exiles pinned on the beaches cursing the US for failing to provide air cover . |
| 19 | The lifters , sent home from Barcelona for failing drugs tests , said they absolved the governing body of any blame . |
| 20 | THE German Athletics Federation has recommended a four-year ban on double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe for failing a drugs test . |
| 21 | Opposition leaders immediately called for the dismissal of Milongo and of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso for failing to organize the elections properly . |