Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the standard housing of towns and cities has been unable to provide shelter , urban populations have been compelled to take the situation into their own hands and put up their own homes . |
| 2 | Hitherto the republics and provinces had been unable to agree on a budget and international financial institutions had accordingly blocked credits . |
| 3 | His guards had been unable to intercept a single raider , in spite of having been warned of the exercise . |
| 4 | Until the British parliament passed the Naturalisation Act in 1870 , the Queen 's subjects had been unable to renounce their citizenship . |
| 5 | [ 4.2 If by the Certificate Date the parties have been unable to agree whether any requirement of the Landlord made pursuant to clause 4.1 is reasonable the matter or matters in dispute shall be referred to a counsel to be agreed upon between the parties or failing agreement within [ 5 ] working days after the Certificate Date to one of the conveyancing counsel for the time being of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice [ " Counsel " ] to be nominated on the application of either party by the President for the time being of the Law Society ( or his duly appointed deputy or any other person authorised by him to make appointments on his behalf ) and Counsel shall : |
| 6 | For years foreigners have been unable to make up their minds whether Cuba 's showpiece investment in genetic engineering is an expensive folly or the foundation of a high-tech economy . |
| 7 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 8 | Discontented gentry unlocked the door which legal reformers had been unable to unlock for themselves . |
| 9 | Since Indians have been unable to resolve their intra-mural debate , English , the language from six thousand miles away , continues to hold sway . |
| 10 | During the last few years , Yugoslavia has been running a substantial surplus in its trade with the Soviet Union because , while there has been a sharp fall in the quantity of oil imported from the Soviet Union , as well as a fall in its price , the Yugoslavs have been unable to find other products worth buying from the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
| 12 | Considering Renault 's pioneering work in turbocharging for both road and track , it comes as little surprise that the power delivery is so smooth and strong though even Renault engineers have been unable to iron out the last fraction of a second of lag between the throttle being floored and the turbo-pressure rising . |
| 13 | In other cases where British judges have been unable to reconcile Community and national law they have thrown the burden of responsibility back upon the government and suggested that the applicants sue the government for breach of a Community obligation under Case C-6190 and C-9190 Francovich and Bonifaci v Italy [ 1992 ] IRLR 84 . |
| 14 | Two workers have been unable to meet the demand . |
| 15 | Philip Joseph , chairman of Books Etc , waged a campaign against this practice — or more accurately against the fact that UK booksellers have been unable to stock such books when airport bookshops can — over several years . |
| 16 | Graham Greene regarded Rider Haggard 's greatest achievement that he ‘ fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away ’ and he defined the sphere of imagination when he wrote of his memories of the characters in the Quatermain novels : |
| 17 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 18 | Despite deep concern over the possibility of a major nuclear accident in the former Soviet republics or Eastern Europe , Western governments have been unable to agree on a comprehensive aid package to improve safety standards [ see also ED65/66 ] . |
| 19 | When the cockchafers arrived , Lucy , the O'Hanlon sisters , Harry , Fleury , Mohammed and Ram were all seated around a little fire in the middle of the floor of the banqueting hall not too far from the baronial fireplace which had unfortunately become impossible to reach through the stacks of " possessions " ; this fire had been cleverly made by Lucy herself out of bits and pieces of smashed furniture ; a large gothic " chair of oak , which Lucy 's lovely but not very powerful muscles had been unable to get the better of , lay on its side with one leg in the fire while the kettle hung from the leg above it , an ingenious idea of Lucy 's own . |
| 20 | ‘ For most of the past three years , ’ he writes , ‘ banks ' customers have been unable to service their debts out of income growth , with the result that many have been and will be forced to shrink their non-interest expenditures or sell assets in order to pay bank interest . |
| 21 | Two early studies showed an increased faecal bile acid excretion in patients with colonic cancer , but later studies have been unable to confirm this . |
| 22 | Recent prospective studies have been unable to confirm a linear relationship between alcohol intake and the development of cirrhosis , and even for steatosis , the severity has been found to be unrelated to the amount , duration , or type of alcohol consumed . |
| 23 | For the last year Archie , under doctor 's orders has been unable to work , but hopes to get back on his feet within a few following an operation . |
| 24 | It expressed concern , however , that UN bodies had been unable to carry out measures mandated for the 1988-89 biennium due to lack of funds . |
| 25 | The big C-130 and C-141 Starlifter planes would go in , high enough to avoid ground artillery , and drop food and medical aid by parachute to the areas that land convoys have been unable to reach . |
| 26 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 27 | Psychiatrists had been unable to find anything of significance to explain his actions . |
| 28 | Though the campaign scarcely gripped the imagination as the victories in the west had done — some reports hinted that the significance of the campaign had not been properly grasped , and that the victories had been unable to affect the popular mood for more than a very short time — it seemed to provide yet another example of Hitler 's strategic genius . |
| 29 | Although Mesmer 's crises have little in common with modern hypnosis and his explanation for the phenomenon was soon discredited , he did obtain cures that physicians had been unable to achieve ; so scientists and therapists remained mesmerised by the phenomenon . |
| 30 | One of the three members had been unable to attend the meeting at which these appeals were heard and a decision made on all the appeals . |