Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [being] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it has been criticized for being unable to deal with problems of unemployment , which continued to rise throughout the 1980s . |
| 2 | The jury in the Mona Bauwens libel case have been discharged after being unable to reach a majority verdict . |
| 3 | Althusserians subsequently placed much emphasis upon the ‘ epistemological break ’ , and were in turn castigated for being unable to explain how it occurred . |
| 4 | Not only is the cortex isolated by being unable to control the musculature , but there is also an inhibition of incoming signals generated by sensory systems . |
| 5 | ‘ N-no — of course not , ’ she lied , irritated at being unable to keep the tremor from her voice . |
| 6 | As such Reports go , therefore , Younger can be said to have been fairly effective , in spite of being limited by being unable to consider public sector threats to privacy . |
| 7 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |