Example sentences of "not [be] [adj] to do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labelling theory implies that criminals are powerless , passive victims who have had the misfortune to be labelled criminal , and have not been able to do anything about it . |
| 2 | When Debré protested that the people would not understand his departure , de Gaulle replied : " I will not be able to do what I want to do , it is too late … |
| 3 | They are not mind readers and unless you explain , in some detail , what you are trying to achieve with a particular photograph they will not be able to do their best work . |
| 4 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 5 | Now of course you may not be able to do anything to change the basic situation — you ca n't very well turn the children out onto the street or walk out on a job just because it is tedious . |
| 6 | However , if this practice has persisted for more than twelve years it will have become what is known as a prescriptive right of way , and you will inherit it and not be able to do anything about it . |
| 7 | Which he may not be able to do anything for that week but it will ring a bell loud and clear the following weeks . |
| 8 | Especially if , mind you , he might not be able to do anything , it 's like I say you you 've got your hot water and it 's probably a job he can do better in the week , one night as long as he says it 's safe to use and you 're not gon na blow the tank up on yourself ! |
| 9 | If she was just a pop star she would not be able to do it , ’ said Mel Bush . |
| 10 | My other main concern was that I really felt that I would not be able to do my job any more once I went back . |
| 11 | Revolution was in the minds of some of those people , together with the nagging doubt , despite the talk of Trotsky and Guevara , Mao and Marcuse , that the supposed motor of revolutionary change in the west — or Eastern European bloc — the workers , would not be prepared to do anything about it . |
| 12 | That was the frightening part , losing control , just as he had with Mary , not being able to do anything about it — not knowing when it would happen again . |
| 13 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 14 | I was nervous , and besides not being able to do it as well , you need a different approach to what you take in art . |
| 15 | She never blames Andrea for not being able to do it . |
| 16 | Not being afraid to do what needed to be done , without a moment 's hesitation or doubt . |
| 17 | on the same lines as getting your point across and not being afraid to do it |
| 18 | We 've got certain rules that say all children must sit certain exams at certain times , it has n't been possible to do it in the labs |
| 19 | If Cuba fell , other Latin American countries would reject us , claiming that for all our might , the Soviet Union had n't been able to do anything for Cuba except to make empty protests to the United Nations ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) . |
| 20 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 21 | They ca n't be normal to do something that . |
| 22 | Without her and Aubrey 's help and guidance , I would n't be able to do what I do today . |
| 23 | Experiments of the most Draconian nature wold be necessary to untangle these possibilities , says Altman , ‘ and you would n't be able to do them in a natural setting like Amboseli ’ . |
| 24 | Willy has replied and said , he wo n't be able to do it because of his domestic circumstances . |
| 25 | ‘ They told me the regulators would n't allow it and that Glasgow housewives would n't be able to do it ’ , he recalls with a smile . |
| 26 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 27 | you would n't be able to do it . |
| 28 | I know but , if you 're shoulder 's bad , you wo n't be able to do it . |
| 29 | Quick go but you wo n't be able to do it . |
| 30 | You wo n't be able to do it , it 's all buttons , alright |