Example sentences of "[art] [noun] may [not/n't] be able " in BNC.

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1 However , it is possible that the vet may not be able to come to your home immediately , and it can be extremely traumatic to have to wait a whole day until the vet is free to leave the surgery .
2 The implication for memory research of the above research on road sign detection appears to be that even when objects have been initially detected by a driver and the driver 's behaviour has been appropriately modified by their presence , the driver may not be able to describe the object even very shortly afterwards .
3 Where the plaintiff obtains such an order , the defendant may not be able to make an effective payment in .
4 This is not done in man because it leads to Charcot joints and a deafferentation phantom , two signs the horse may not be able to display .
5 The trustees of the seller 's pension scheme are not under the seller 's control and so the seller may not be able to procure payment of a transfer value equal to that agreed .
6 First , the file may not be able to support such complicated search conditions as a serial file , because the size of work area required to process a request is now much larger ; instead of dealing with one record at a time , the system now deals with all relevant records at once .
7 But lack of funding means the service may not be able to operate for much longer .
8 If they are to be fulfilled at the time of the service of the notice then , for example , the landlord may not be able to rely on a breach of covenant to decorate " in the last year of the term " since no breach of that covenant can be positively asserted until the expiry of the complete year .
9 for if you attempt to answer it and miss the point , the examiner may not be able to give you any marks , because you will not have answered his question .
10 After Lithuania , Spain come to Dublin and , the way the group is shaping up , the Spaniards may not be able to settle for a point as they did in Belfast last year .
11 And yet even the combination of the ‘ grand alliance ’ and the FCC may not be able to enforce a single American HDTV broadcast standard , or ensure HDTV 's success .
12 The counsellor may not be able to find the reason readily , or we may not like or agree with what we find , but nevertheless the reason will exist .
13 Equally , the couple may not be able to ask the parents for a hand-out if they 're doing it largely for their own satisfaction .
14 Another problem is that when the expatriates return to Britain , the payment of school fees by the employer generally ends and the couple may not be able to afford to keep their children in private education .
15 Shares in Thames slipped on fears that the company may not be able to shake off the jinx which has dogged so many American acquisitions by British foragers .
16 In many competitive markets the company may not be able to do much about price recovery , but , by separating out those effects , it can focus more accurately on cost reduction and internal efficiency .
17 The sufferers may not be able to see themselves but they can see each other and , by identifying features of themselves in the others , they gain insight into themselves and into their own disease .
18 A sub-contractor may not be able to satisfy the buyer in this regard .
19 At night , a person may not be able to get out of bed in time , or they will dislike using a bedpan or find it difficult and messy .
20 To put the case simply , such a pupil may not be able to undertake a task such as cutting out a paper figure , not because of not understanding how to do so , but because of being unable to see properly how it is done .
21 Early on in an analysis , a patient may not be able to verbalize their real feelings , or to admit they had hostile feelings towards the dead person , and that a part of themselves is pleased with the death .
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