Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] be unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both crabs died after about two months , but I have been unable to find any information on them . |
| 2 | State Premier Joan Kirner had inherited office when John Cain was forced to resign in August 1990 after a Royal Commission inquiry into the collapse of the merchant banking arm of the state bank , Tricontinental , revealed a record of financial mismanagement , but she had been unable to reverse the consequent unpopularity of her party . |
| 3 | But we 've been unable to track down an official aid organisation which has worked with her . |
| 4 | The Royal Air Force Memorial Fund ( later to become the RAF Benevolent Fund ) had originally hoped to erect a memorial on ground between Westminster Abbey and St Margaret 's Church , but they had been unable to get permission . |
| 5 | He told the abbot of Fécamp that he had heard that there was a letter of Pope Eugenius ( obviously a corruption of Hyginus ) which had settled the question , but he had been unable to get any information about this alleged source . |
| 6 | Huxley had turned the tables admirably , according to Sir Joseph Hooker , but he had been unable to throw his voice over so large an assembly . |
| 7 | I 'd got the riding gear from Duncan , but he 'd been unable to come up with a red helmet with black visor . |
| 8 | I have approached the GMC three times about professional boundaries , but it has been unable to help . |