Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] he [be] unable [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mungo had so much on his mind that he was unable to concentrate on Mary Ann 's stories . |
| 2 | Will it not be regarded by them and by the regiments as an admission that he is unable to justify on security grounds the cuts that he has made ? |
| 3 | But by the end of last year Mr Yanagitani had lost so much money that he was unable to honour the investment guarantees he had given to his clients . |
| 4 | His problem is that he is so busy with the GAA team that he is unable to give his hotels his undivided attention . |
| 5 | Yeltsin said that he had lured the coup leaders out of the Kremlin , where they were protected , by challenging them to go to Foros , the Black Sea resort where Gorbachev was being held , to get a statement from Gorbachev to confirm their claim that he was unable to carry out his duties . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr. Burgess in my judgment was clearly an experienced careful solicitor and I have no hesitation in accepting his evidence that he did form the view that on 26 March 1986 Mr. Winterbone was not capable of making a will for the reasons he stated — namely that he was incoherent and confused in the sense that he was unable to remember names and addresses and he was not at all clear in relation to the names of the people that he wished to benefit . |
| 7 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 8 | A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’ |
| 9 | A month before harvesting , the plants were washed away by some unusually heavy rains , leaving the farmer with a loan and interest that he was unable to pay ( Rubbo 1975 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Our great founder laid down a rule in his will that anyone who went to prison would not have to pay his subscription during the time that he was unable to use the club premises , and that any unused portion of his subscription should be held over until his release . ’ |
| 11 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |
| 12 | Memory loss was the worst aspect , the fact that he was unable to complete a crossword puzzle in ten minutes as he once could troubled him . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that he was unable to begin the part of Sifare until 1 December when the singer arrived in Milan — only 25 days before the first scheduled performance — the première nevertheless took place , as planned , on 26 December , and the opera received another 21 performances that season . |