Example sentences of "they [verb] been 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 | The Royal Air Force Memorial Fund ( later to become the RAF Benevolent Fund ) had originally hoped to erect a memorial on ground between Westminster Abbey and St Margaret 's Church , but they had been unable to get permission . |
| 4 | They had been unable to find the target , but had dropped and had become widely scattered . |
| 5 | They had been unable to decide whether creditors preferred the property or the carcase of their insolvent . |
| 6 | Two weeks later the same students were called together and reminded of the questions they had been unable to answer . |
| 7 | Although they had been unable so far to be sure whether or not either neutrons or gamma rays were being emitted from the cell , if fusion was indeed occurring then there should be evidence within the cathode — helium or tritium should be present , though in very small quantities . |
| 8 | Arsenal supporters travelled from London because they had been unable to get tickets from Highbury . |
| 9 | Those at the back of the gathering now had to ask each other in whispers what the text had been , for they had been unable to hear it . |
| 10 | Most participants in special programmes simultaneously answered that they were in temporary jobs because they had been unable to find permanent work ; a small proportion , consisting mainly of YTS participants , saw their places on the scheme as jobs which were temporary because they involved a contract for training . |
| 11 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 12 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 13 | These women saw their tears as an important source of release from tension , yet they had been unable to persuade husbands or partners to be comfortable when they were crying , just to be there and let them cry . |
| 14 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 15 | The dead young men on them were covered by the nylon parachutes they had been unable to use to save their lives . |
| 16 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And , most importantly , they have been unable to devise anything that might be termed a corporate central-government strategy towards inner-city areas . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Her adoptive parents both feel they have been unable to make up fully for Frances 's childhood abandonment by her mother . |
| 24 | They admit they are baffled by their findings because they have been unable to discover a common link to all the tragic cases . |
| 25 | Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |