Example sentences of "for [v-ing] to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | This insulting behaviour had the desired effect in that it raised tempers in Paris , where all political groups , together with virtually the entire press , broke out in a clamour of hostility to Prussia , at the same time castigating their own government for refusing to take a strong line . |
| 2 | Does the Minister agree that he and his colleagues are responsible , first , for refusing to take action to clear up the fiasco on the issue of computer records being used , secondly for refusing to abolish the 20 per cent . |
| 3 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 4 | Michael Cole , the media director for the House of Fraser , said on March 7 , 1990 , that the report was inept and prejudiced , while on the same day Sir Edward Du Cann , chairman of Lonrho ( which had itself desired to take over the House of Fraser ) , criticized the government for refusing to take action against the Fayeds and said that damages would be sought against the brothers through the courts . |
| 5 | During the war he appeared before a court martial as a captain in the Royal Armoured Corps for refusing to take part in the bombardment of Le Havre in 1944 and his attempt last year to clear his name was rejected by the Ministry of Defence . |
| 6 | He used the pause to say how grateful he was to my aunt for deciding to take his case . |
| 7 | Within a department it must be possible for people who have particular interests and aptitudes for teaching to take on a greater share of the load . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | School attendance officers were disliked for failing to take account of the need of some poor families for a child 's income . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Heath was even led to castigate , in his famous phrase , the ‘ unacceptable face of capitalism ’ , and to berate industrialists for failing to take up industrial investment opportunities . |
| 14 | Since its inception , this procedure has been fiercely attacked on many occasions , including The Black Report ( Townsend and Davidson , 1982 ) and The Health Divide ( Whitehead , 1987 ) for failing to take account of morbidity and of social deprivation ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 , for a review of the vast literature generated by the debate on the use of the RAWP formula ) . |
| 15 | This practice is criticised by disability organisations for failing to take account of the practical difficulties of living in unsuitable housing and focusing instead on health problems . |
| 16 | Such approaches have been criticised for failing to take account of external or structural factors which influence people 's experience of ageing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In Town Ali , too , slammed the play for failing to take sides . |
| 19 | Efforts to persuade Iraq to pump oil to pay for essential imports , under the terms of UN Resolution 706 [ see pp. 38406 ; 38451 ] , ended in failure on Nov. 24 after six days of talks in Baghdad between government ministers and the head of the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , who told a press conference that " the government of Iraq may be held responsible for failing to take advantage of the window of opportunity … afforded by the arrangement for oil exports and imports of essential needs " , but added that Western governments could alleviate Iraq 's humanitarian problem by releasing all Iraqi assets . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Guerreiro had been widely criticized among environmentalists and Indian organizations for failing to take a sufficiently active role in defending native peoples ' interests . |
| 23 | It also criticized the electricity companies for failing to take the lead in developing alternative energy sources . |
| 24 | The Prince of Wales has criticized both developed and developing nations for failing to take steps to safeguard the global environment . |
| 25 | * Greenpeace has criticized the Israeli government for failing to take steps to cut production of methyl bromide . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This shows that for mixing to take place between high molecular weight components the solubility parameters would have to be virtually identical . |
| 28 | This facilitation involves meeting conditions necessary for learning to take place . |
| 29 | There must be an adequate basis of previous knowledge for learning to take place . |
| 30 | First , it concerns creating just the right atmosphere in the classroom for learning to take place at all in a human way . |