Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [be] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EEC does offer grants to academics for research on approved projects ; but so far it has been unable to help with the major problems of the academic researchers , such as shortage of jobs , lack of mobility of researchers and declining funds for research . |
| 2 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 3 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 4 | I have approached the GMC three times about professional boundaries , but it has been unable to help . |
| 5 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 6 | Nonetheless the Committee remains purely consultative , and it has been unable to create the initial momentum for the creation of a comprehensive social policy . |
| 7 | The picture drawn is a static one , and it has been unable to provide a convincing account of how and why changes have occurred in the pattern of industrial relations . |