Example sentences of "have [been] unable [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Merseyside father-of-three has been unable to leave Oman after his passport was confiscated in a picture row two months ago . |
| 2 | Turner , who scored over 300 points last season after joining the club from Acklam , has been unable to recapture the same form . |
| 3 | It is as if the company in some very deep way has been unable to acknowledge that customers even have choices . |
| 4 | The telecommunications industry says it is not aware of a single instance in which the FBI has been unable to tap a line because of the widespread new technology … |
| 5 | Mr de Klerk has been unable to stop the sharp rise in violent crime : 20,135 murders last year compared with 14,700 the year before . |
| 6 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
| 7 | Cloughie , probably now less adaptable to sudden change than he used to be , has been hamstrung by the departure of two high class central defenders , whom he has been unable to replace despite having cash in the bank . |
| 8 | President Walesa has been unable to form a stable government , usually because one or more of the coalition partners have been unwilling to share responsibility for unpopular economic policies . |
| 9 | provided that a member or a beneficial owner of a share shall only be required to reimburse the Society to the extent that the Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the recognised body or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator or any such person . |
| 10 | but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . |
| 11 | but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . |
| 12 | But Mr Yeltsin himself has been unable to give the miners public support because their strike threatens Russia 's stubborn attempts to plough its lonely furrow of economic reform . |
| 13 | So far she has been unable to give police a description of her attacker . |
| 14 | His assailants were aged 30 to 35 , but the victim has been unable to give police any further description . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that many people in London are deeply disturbed by the increasing incidence of asthma among children , but that the Minister for Health has been unable to give figures relating to the level of asthma suffering in London as a result of air pollution , which is caused mainly by vehicles ? |
| 16 | higher in Scotland than in England and Wales , a fact for which COSLA has been unable to give any credible explanation . |
| 17 | There are now 100 families in the town living in bed and breakfast hotels and more than 60 placed in hostels the situation is so bad that the council has been unable to move anyone off its waiting list for almost two months . |
| 18 | Despite several attempts , the county has been unable to persuade Braintree District Council to approve plans for a southern link road around Sudbury near the Braintree area . |
| 19 | Despite several attempts , the county has been unable to persuade Braintree District Council to approve plans for a southern link road around Sudbury near the Braintree area . |
| 20 | Yet in using concepts developed from the public domain , malestream political sociology has been unable to put issues of crucial concern to women on its agenda . |
| 21 | If the system has been unable to open the file , the handle returned will be 0 . |
| 22 | Another says he has been unable to open his garage door for days after a skip filled with bricks was dumped outside . |
| 23 | He kept Bulgaria close to the Soviet Union , particularly during Brezhnev 's time , but has been unable to cope with President Gorbachev 's move towards democracy and openness . |
| 24 | Bt strains have traditionally been classified by serotyping , but this system has been unable to cope with the vast number of new strains discovered recently . |
| 25 | Hitherto , even equipment that can calculate flight paths has been unable to cope with this threat . |
| 26 | Ballesteros worries about such heavy defeats because he finds it incomprehensible that he has been unable to repel the thrusts of those opponents . |
| 27 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 28 | I have argued that antiracism has been unable to deal with the new forms in which racism has developed . |
| 29 | LIFESPAN has been unable to create the Design Change ( DC ) listing file in your current directory since the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |
| 30 | LIFESPAN has been unable to create the output file in your current directory since the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |