Example sentences of "they [vb base] [be] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avon and Somerset Police told us they 've been monitoring the situation closely , but so far they 've been unable to press criminal charges . |
| 2 | Y'know that somehow um , perhaps rather like the psychoanalytic notion of repression , something like that , somehow um er they 've been unable to remember for a number of years , possibly even decades , and er something triggers it . |
| 3 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 4 | In some cases where favelados have moved to new housing schemes , they have been unable to meet the payments , which are periodically increased because of inflation and , therefore , had to return to the favelas . |
| 5 | And , most importantly , they have been unable to devise anything that might be termed a corporate central-government strategy towards inner-city areas . |
| 6 | Auditors Price Waterhouse have qualified their audit report to members of Harland Simon ( design , manufacture and installation of control , automation and image processing systems ) because they have been unable to obtain direct confirmation of the beneficial ownership of a shareholding in Perfect Information Ltd . |
| 7 | In fact , what we have witnessed has been the spectacle of governments running so hard to get away from this concept that they have been unable to hear the voice of the British business community , pleading that the interest it would like the government to show in its affairs is of a different nature altogether . |
| 8 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 9 | Her adoptive parents both feel they have been unable to make up fully for Frances 's childhood abandonment by her mother . |
| 10 | They admit they are baffled by their findings because they have been unable to discover a common link to all the tragic cases . |
| 11 | Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital . |
| 12 | Recent Secretaries of State for Education have been known to favour educational vouchers as a way of increasing parental choice and allowing the quality of schools to be judged by market forces though they have been unable to find a workable system . |
| 13 | As people evaluate and celebrate the successes of their actions , they will identify what they 've gained and what they have been unable to attain through the particular action . |
| 14 | The applicants wish to know the nature and extent of their receivership powers as a matter of practical importance and pressing nature , because they have been unable so far to obtain any assistance from the directors of I.B.C. as to the location of books and records of I.B.C. , or as to the provision of information about its assets . |
| 15 | The women were badly injured and two of them have been unable to return to work . |