The phrase "fail to behave" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means not being able to act appropriately or follow expected behavior. Example: Despite repeated warnings, the students failed to behave during the assembly and caused a disruption.
If kings or fathers fail to behave properly, they cannot expect their ministers or children to act in accordance with ritual.
Compassionate in principle, chilly in practice, her character could support an allegorical proposition: people often fail to behave as they know they should.
Celebrity chefs give the impression that you are lucky to be able to eat their food, and that the privilege will be removed if you fail to behave properly or grovel sufficiently.
Jails also contained "thousands of antisocial, petty criminals who fail to behave themselves in everyday life", almost half of them illiterate, mentally ill or with a history of drug abuse.
A synthetic circuit may fail to behave as expected for a multitude of reasons, and since many of these failures are difficult to predict a priori, a better understanding of a circuit's behavior as well as its possible failures are needed.
Even if they fail to behave scandalously, the tabloids manage somehow to create an aura of sexual possibility; a few years ago a popular British daily featured photographs of famous female tennis players' heads stuck on to lookalike naked bodies.The public is convinced that it is the best, and queue all night to gain admittance to the very few good tickets available on the day.
The company also failed to behave fairly and professionally.
I'd be the first to condemn a politician who refused to attend the ceremony or failed to behave respectfully.
Although OPEC often fails to behave like an ideal cartel, it does not follow that prices were ever "too low".
Additionally, if a validator fails to behave honestly, they may be removed from the network — which helps keep PoS systems accurate.
The Met Office, Britain's national weather service, has been the target of climate change skeptics who have showed a tendency to shoot the messenger when the weather fails to behave as predicted.
