Example sentences of "have [be] unable [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet half the names could not leave even if they wanted to : they are locked into the 58 ( out of a total of 401 ) Lloyd 's syndicates that have been unable to close one or more of their past annual accounts , so unquantifiable are the liabilities stacking up against them . |
| 2 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 3 | I must also acknowledge to the Minister and the House that I have been unable to interview my constituent face to face . |
| 4 | Because these columns are planned well in advance , I have been unable to print your responses until now . |
| 5 | Whereas these workers have successfully repeated their own experiments , others in Yorkshire have been unable to do so . |
| 6 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 7 | We have , over the years , employed several students , but over the last few , have been unable to do so , for financial constraints . |
| 8 | Tour sponsors Tetley Bitter have been unable to persuade customs to allow supplies in for the players . |
| 9 | The Owens have been unable to persuade the Department of Transport to buy their property , though it has bought out some of their neigbours . |
| 10 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 11 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 12 | Despite deep concern over the possibility of a major nuclear accident in the former Soviet republics or Eastern Europe , Western governments have been unable to agree on a comprehensive aid package to improve safety standards [ see also ED65/66 ] . |
| 13 | Northern governments preparing for next year 's Cairo conference on population have been unable to agree a joint strategy . |
| 14 | [ 4.2 If by the Certificate Date the parties have been unable to agree whether any requirement of the Landlord made pursuant to clause 4.1 is reasonable the matter or matters in dispute shall be referred to a counsel to be agreed upon between the parties or failing agreement within [ 5 ] working days after the Certificate Date to one of the conveyancing counsel for the time being of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice [ " Counsel " ] to be nominated on the application of either party by the President for the time being of the Law Society ( or his duly appointed deputy or any other person authorised by him to make appointments on his behalf ) and Counsel shall : |
| 15 | Graham and Venables have been sniping at refereeing but have been unable to declare publicly their full outrage for fear of FA disrepute charges . |
| 16 | And , most importantly , they have been unable to devise anything that might be termed a corporate central-government strategy towards inner-city areas . |
| 17 | Philip Joseph , chairman of Books Etc , waged a campaign against this practice — or more accurately against the fact that UK booksellers have been unable to stock such books when airport bookshops can — over several years . |
| 18 | Graham Greene regarded Rider Haggard 's greatest achievement that he ‘ fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away ’ and he defined the sphere of imagination when he wrote of his memories of the characters in the Quatermain novels : |
| 19 | For the Apple Macintosh the runaway winner appears to be Microsoft 's Excel as Lotus have been unable to repeat their success with 123 in Jazz . |
| 20 | " If we have been unable to give Spain greater well-being " , he said , " let it be very clear that this has been due to foreign incomprehension . " |
| 21 | Police say the team may have carried out as many as nine raids , but many of the elderly victims have been unable to give good descriptions . |
| 22 | ‘ — we have been unable to fill the position . |
| 23 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
| 24 | ‘ For most of the past three years , ’ he writes , ‘ banks ' customers have been unable to service their debts out of income growth , with the result that many have been and will be forced to shrink their non-interest expenditures or sell assets in order to pay bank interest . |
| 25 | Considering Renault 's pioneering work in turbocharging for both road and track , it comes as little surprise that the power delivery is so smooth and strong though even Renault engineers have been unable to iron out the last fraction of a second of lag between the throttle being floored and the turbo-pressure rising . |
| 26 | So far , ‘ we have been unable to detect any major obnoxious effects on other fish or invertebrates , ’ Hockin says . |
| 27 | If you have been unable to detect the early symptoms and the disease has progressed ( very common with ponds where fish can easily hide or where water clarity is poor ) you will have to catch all the affected fish and treat them in a salt bath . |
| 28 | Several authors report the presence of aluminium and silicon in the plaque cores , although others have been unable to detect any increase in the level of these elements in neuritic plaques . |
| 29 | Therefore we have been unable to report the hoped for release of financial resources to use on other services . |
| 30 | ‘ It answers questions I have been unable to answer . |