Example sentences of "would [not/n't] be able [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A smaller team would be closer to the democratic decision-making process but then the doors of such a bureau would not be able to open to the public for so many hours . |
| 2 | This is a pretty odd combination if you think about it for dormice and hares do not really talk and so would not be able to talk to the mad hatter , a human . |
| 3 | Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites . |
| 4 | She swore — yet again — that she would leave off the rich food , forget the drink , but even as she making the promise , she knew she would not be able to keep to it . |
| 5 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 6 | After that time any light emitted from the star would not be able to escape to infinity but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 7 | I suppose there 's a sense in which poetry can only be shared with other people if there is some common experience , maybe at a deeper level some collective unconscious , otherwise I would n't be able to respond to your poetry ? |
| 8 | So as you will see , this leaves a hole as big as a goat 's backside in the programme , and Dulcie wrote to Jas and I that unless one of us would write another ballet , and a longish one at that , the University Ballet would n't be able to go to JHB ! ! ! |
| 9 | And even on a cook 's wages she would n't be able to rise to that . ’ |
| 10 | If this is the case , then I co would n't be able to propose to the council that we continue to give Rentakil two hundred and seventy quid a year |