Example sentences of "seemed [adv] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in a sudden flash that he was sometimes capable of , he acknowledged his daughters ' continuing goodwill and love , love that usually he seemed inherently unable to return . |
| 2 | But the economic and social prescriptions of Beveridge and Keynes seemed increasingly unable to reverse either economic decline or deal with the " crisis of welfare " which in 1981 the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) forecast for Western nations in the run-up to the next century . |
| 3 | Another example of the importance of having time to say goodbye to the person who has died is that of a client I was working with who seemed quite unable to talk about his wife 's death and seemed totally unconcerned that she had died tragically . |
| 4 | But today with his mind too preoccupied to work he seemed quite unable to keep his hands off it . |
| 5 | Staring at the door , Ellie seemed quite unable to tear her eyes away as it slowly opened and Feargal walked in . |
| 6 | The evacuee mothers , he maintained , ‘ seemed quite unable to do very much for themselves . |