Example sentences of "[that] he was unable [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One teacher said he would like to send all blacks back on the banana boat , and another told her that he was unable to sit by her because she was black . |
| 2 | At that time there were two justices in court , one of whom had indicated that he was unable to sit beyond 4.15 p.m . |
| 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 | A White House spokesman said on April 9 that the US had " no position " on the question of Kurdish " safe havens " , and a State Department spokesman said that he was unable to give the proposal " specific endorsement " . |
| 5 | Jason saw and heard nothing during the night and raised the alarm when he went to tell his parents that he was unable to wake Matthew . |
| 6 | Johnny returned after lunch with his knee bandaged up but the hospital said that it was not really too serious but this meant that he was unable to take part in the afternoon 's activities . |
| 7 | One man explained that he was unable to continue payment in support of his mother because he had joined the Navy , and he was given exemption . |
| 8 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
| 9 | The rain was so heavy now that he was unable to see the expression on her face . |
| 10 | Until he worked through that he was unable to see his father as a human being . |
| 11 | He could hardly believe his eyes and it was then he knew that he was unable to rely on his sensory feelings ( the kinaesthetic sense ) . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ( Apparently his life is so fast-paced that he was unable to talk from his office ) . |
| 15 | Meanwhile on April 22 the widely read Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper published a scathing attack on Walesa which implied that he was unable to cope with his responsibilities . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Daak 's shouted curses were becoming weaker , and it was obvious that he was unable to aim his blaster . |
| 18 | He found that he was unable to do anything to improve the condition of his larynx or his breathing , but he was able to stop pulling his head back . |
| 19 | In any event , he was physically frail and temperamentally extremely shy and gentle , so that he was unable to do his thought and learning full justice before even small audiences . |
| 20 | You may wonder why it is reported that He seemed to resent them , which may suggest that he was unable to express his own resentment , which may limit your range of potential interpretations of the expression He . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The men wore rubber ponchos and had exchanged their black berets for jungle hats pulled well down against the rain so that he was unable to discern whether Miguelito was amongst their number . |
| 25 | Even when he was awake a feeding tube in his throat meant that he was unable to speak . |
| 26 | Nuadu was glad that he was unable to speak , for to have done so , to have uttered any kind of sound , would certainly have been to betray the utter revulsion that engulfed him . |
| 27 | He blurted out that he was unable to speak for pain , so his defence was never heard . |
| 28 | He had received support for his view on modernization when Lord Carrington , the former NATO Secretary-General , said on Nov. 20 , in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) in London , that he was unable to imagine any circumstances " in which NATO would deploy new nuclear weapons which would fall on East German soil " . |
| 29 | He was not so ill , however , that he was unable to keep up with what was going on . |
| 30 | Blood-stained trousers indicated that Putt had suffered other injuries and he made it clear that he was unable to walk . |