Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] not be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 3 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
| 4 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 5 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
| 6 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 7 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 8 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 9 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 10 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |
| 11 | She was bitterly sad that she had not been able to see her aunt before she died . |
| 12 | and then go back over stuff that you 've done earlier that you have n't been able to understand where you 've felt , Ooh I do n't know what 's going on here . |
| 13 | Does n't it worry you that you have n't been able really to make an efficient crackdown here and your officers are still suffering attacks ? |
| 14 | The loss of a significant relationship through death is , however , likely to be one that we have not been able to prepare for much in advance , and it is likely to be a loss that we do regret . |
| 15 | We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we have n't been able to wear for ages . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 17 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 18 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 19 | It was Charlton 's 11th away success — a League best — and their achievements are all the more commendable coming in the wake of last year 's relegation , the departure of manager Lennie Lawrence , the on-off move back to the Valley and the fact that they have not been able to compete in the transfer market . |
| 20 | The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well . |
| 21 | The JAC in Leeds admitted that it had not been able to counter the numbers going into dead-end jobs , and a similar admission was made by the Plymouth authorities . |
| 22 | Misys Plc , which said in January that it was in talks that could lead to it acquiring Burns Anderson Independent Network Plc ( CI No 2,081 ) , said yesterday that it had not been able to agree terms for the acquisition and that negotiations had therefore been terminated . |
| 23 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 24 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 25 | The minister 's one regret was that he had not been able to implement his scheme in full . |
| 26 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |
| 27 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 28 | I have given the Minister credit for what has been achieved , and I am disappointed that he has not been able to go further . |