Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the distribution of lands between the districts , erm if I can refer to Mr Curtis 's comments first , the Greater York study never anticipated that the distribution of housing around the Greater York the districts would be based around the percentage of population within those districts , but purely on capacity of sites within those districts to accommodate future housing growth without compromising greenbelt objectives , Ryedale , as I 've said before , has taken the largest proportion of recent housing in the Greater York area , and has identified a substantial amount of new land for housing within its Southern Ryedale local plan , what the District Council is concerned about is that within the local , Southern Ryedale local plans , this is taking a large proportion of its district wide total plans , yet the District Council from the structure plan figure given is unable to calculate the remainder of housing that should be allocated in the remainder of its district . |
| 2 | I have argued that antiracism has been unable to deal with the new forms in which racism has developed . |
| 3 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |
| 4 | Whatever the force of these criticisms , Willis had introduced the role of the sub-culture into the transition from school to work and had shown how this was developed within the group — something which large scale surveys with their pre-structured questions and their questioning of individuals in isolation had been unable to do . |
| 5 | The airline business gave Richard Branson a challenge which , in recent years , the record industry had been unable to provide . |
| 6 | So far , police on the continent have been unable to confirm his identity . |
| 7 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 8 | Arata Isozaki/James Stewart Polshek , consulting architects for the Master Plan , gutted the four-and-a-half-story wing , creating 30,000 square feet of new gallery space , but the museum has been unable to avail itself of its newfound riches . |
| 9 | There are now 100 families in the town living in bed and breakfast hotels and more than 60 placed in hostels the situation is so bad that the council has been unable to move anyone off its waiting list for almost two months . |
| 10 | The Committee had been unable to decide how successful school feeding would be , but suggested that local authorities should keep a close watch upon voluntary experiments . |
| 11 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 12 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 13 | The Merseyside father-of-three has been unable to leave Oman after his passport was confiscated in a picture row two months ago . |
| 14 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 15 | When Charlemagne gave his support and patronage to Aethelred , he was honouring only one of at least four princely lines — Osred 's , Osbald 's , Aethelred 's and Eardwulf 's — and even with Frankish blessing Aethelred was unable in these circumstances to establish a long-lasting regime . |
| 16 | Shiona had looked into his face with a stab of emotion , and just for a moment had been unable to speak . |
| 17 | The Collector had been unable to see the latter part of this action , which had taken place in thick yellow dust and smoke ( the snow having mysteriously ceased ) . |
| 18 | ‘ For the last few years we have been seriously handicapped by the fact that our second team have been unable to compete regularly against quality opposition . |
| 19 | Northern governments preparing for next year 's Cairo conference on population have been unable to agree a joint strategy . |
| 20 | The author 's been unable to resist popping down to the set once in a while to keep an eye on how it 's going . |
| 21 | The Constitutional Court had been unable to rule on the code , as the version adopted at the Congress had since been altered . |
| 22 | For the Apple Macintosh the runaway winner appears to be Microsoft 's Excel as Lotus have been unable to repeat their success with 123 in Jazz . |
| 23 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |
| 24 | Mankind had been unable to endure the — the purity of that situation . |
| 25 | The concept of total aircraft ownership will become increasingly important should the traditional trade structure be unable to cover the expanse of technologies economically . |
| 26 | Church council treasurer John King said the parish had been unable to fly its St George cross since the lanyard broke about a year ago . |
| 27 | If fewer convictions result , this is a price which must be paid and a price which the police force as at present trained are unable to accept . |
| 28 | It appears that in practice the interim government has been unable to operate in Mogadishu and Mr. Qalib has based himself in a hotel in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 29 | The loans were to be administered by a specially formed company under contract to the government ; but the government has been unable to secure the co-operation of the major banks , who were to be the chief participants in the new company , and the loans scheme is in disarray . |
| 30 | provided that a member or a beneficial owner of a share shall only be required to reimburse the Society to the extent that the Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the recognised body or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator or any such person . |