Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be able [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 2 | ‘ I may not be able to agree to this particular request . |
| 3 | There has been some focusing on why people may not be able to come to a CAB and which groups may be affected . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We may not be able to come to a conclusion . |
| 6 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 7 | A smaller team would be closer to the democratic decision-making process but then the doors of such a bureau would not be able to open to the public for so many hours . |
| 8 | This is a pretty odd combination if you think about it for dormice and hares do not really talk and so would not be able to talk to the mad hatter , a human . |
| 9 | Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites . |
| 10 | She swore — yet again — that she would leave off the rich food , forget the drink , but even as she making the promise , she knew she would not be able to keep to it . |
| 11 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 12 | After that time any light emitted from the star would not be able to escape to infinity but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 13 | For instance , I can not actively engage with a book unless I am mentally free to give myself to it — if my mind is on other practical affairs while I am reading or if my reading competence is inadequate then I shall not be able to submit to the experience . |
| 14 | I suppose there 's a sense in which poetry can only be shared with other people if there is some common experience , maybe at a deeper level some collective unconscious , otherwise I would n't be able to respond to your poetry ? |
| 15 | So as you will see , this leaves a hole as big as a goat 's backside in the programme , and Dulcie wrote to Jas and I that unless one of us would write another ballet , and a longish one at that , the University Ballet would n't be able to go to JHB ! ! ! |
| 16 | And even on a cook 's wages she would n't be able to rise to that . ’ |
| 17 | If this is the case , then I co would n't be able to propose to the council that we continue to give Rentakil two hundred and seventy quid a year |
| 18 | At first Mercury 's customers will have to rely on fixed , leased lines , and will not be able to talk to other subscribers . |
| 19 | According to US press reports , the 64-bit bus architecture will be backwards-compatible with AT and EISA boards , but they will not be able to upgrade to the higher performance . |
| 20 | and working in Hatfield they will not be able to go to Stansted it , it , it all would finally |
| 21 | If we fail to help these children now they will not be able to contribute to the social economic wellbeing of the nation and may cost us in time more social and financial in , in , in the future , so it 's good investment , we 're friendly with them , we , we do sympathize them but it 's only common sense and good investment that we fully recompense that the to the level it should n't be er by the Home Office that is to replace fifteen percent o of seventy five , I think seventy of . |
| 22 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
| 23 | He said : ‘ If I tell you where I sold it you are going to go to those people and I wo n't be able to sell to them any more . |
| 24 | ‘ If he does n't get any better , we wo n't be able to go to Disneyland , ’ Paul says . |
| 25 | Oh right , it 's a shame you wo n't be able to go to it then . |
| 26 | Miguel said , ‘ If you go visiting tomorrow night , you wo n't be able to go to Pepe 's . ’ |
| 27 | and then gradually try and re do n't , do n't spend too much time trying to reconstruct the past because that , you know , you just get further and further behind with the present stuff so you know kind of try and at least make sure that , you know , maybe if you get a job you wo n't be able to go to all the classes but at least make sure you , you are in contact with somebody who has that you can get notes off every time , you know , that erm oh hello |
| 28 | After all , if the Palace ostracises her she wo n't be able to go to any more of those incredibly interesting garden parties to meet all those terribly fascinating people like the head of the Surbiton philatelic society . |
| 29 | And you wo n't be able to go to the F S A anyway cos you 're on your course . |
| 30 | But she wo n't be able to afford to now ! |