Example sentences of "proved unable [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After French Museums proved unable to agree over the price at which the paintings should go to the Museum of Melun , however , France 's Monuments Historiques moved in and declared the two still lifes the first paintings , after van Gogh 's ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , to be historic monuments and thus unable to leave France . |
| 2 | In theory , parties were free to frame their own transactions , which could then be carried out without legal impediment ; in the event that a bargain fell through , or if one party balked or proved unable to perform , the law of contract made freely available the regular judicial processes of the court system , in which economic damages would be awarded to the party aggrieved . |
| 3 | Yet Stolypin proved unable to enact more than a fraction of the measures he proposed . |
| 4 | Others proved unable to cope with the rapidly changing conditions with which they were faced , but there is little evidence of a violent breakdown in social or moral standards . |
| 5 | Korea was small and impoverished , burdened by a highly reactionary ruling class which , unlike that in Japan , proved unable to adapt to a changed international environment . |
| 6 | Weakened by the two-year government blockade , and torn by internal dissension , the BRA proved unable to halt these localized advances . |
| 7 | The King therefore saw Samuel before Baldwin ; and Samuel gave the advice which the Sovereign wanted to hear , namely that if MacDonald proved unable to carry his Cabinet , the best solution to the crisis would be a National Government , led by MacDonald , ‘ unless he found that he could not carry with him a sufficient number of his colleagues ’ . |
| 8 | The FDP proved unable to insist on its proposed low taxation zone for the five eastern Länder ( states ) . |
| 9 | Prosper Avril and the installation of Ertha Pascal-Trouillot as interim President [ see pp. 37313-14 ] soon evaporated as the new administration proved unable to counter violence and corruption or to prevent tensions developing between the President and the Council of State , amid fears of increasing organization by pro-Duvalierist elements . |
| 10 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 11 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 12 | Babrak Karmal , for a start , proved unable to unite the warring Khalq ( Masses ) and Parcham ( Banner ) factions of the People 's Democratic Party , the organisation upon which his authority depended . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the Republicans , plagued by continuing factional disputes over strategy , tactics and supply , proved unable to recapture lost territory . |
| 14 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 15 | As businessmen proved unable to bring about industrial recovery , Hoover 's administration reluctantly entered the arena . |
| 16 | When national passions were translated into imperialist politics , liberal-democratic institutions proved unable to keep the peace . " |
| 17 | When the banks proved unable to provide much assistance , he turned to 3i . |