Example sentences of "have [be] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentions dog 's tooth violets and despite an intensive search , I have been unable to find any . |
| 2 | Despite reference to seed catalogues and gardening books , I have been unable to find any information on its propagation , either from seed or from cuttings . |
| 3 | In this case , however , I have been unable to make the separation and the fieldwork is both empirical and continuous ; it is diachronic and retrospective , taking in the historical with the contemporary . |
| 4 | Meetings between the Prime Minister ; Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment ; and Nigel Lawson , Chancellor of the Exchequer , have been unable to come up with an agreed solution to put to today 's Cabinet . |
| 5 | The coverage given to Mr Allen 's remarks must have been particularly galling to Mr Giuliani 's backers in the Republican party who have been unable to make crime an issue in the race . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |
| 8 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 9 | It is very interesting to note that many people who have been unable to eat cheese because of headaches , migraines or digestive problems following its consumption are able to eat organically produced cheeses with no side effects . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yet half the names could not leave even if they wanted to : they are locked into the 58 ( out of a total of 401 ) Lloyd 's syndicates that have been unable to close one or more of their past annual accounts , so unquantifiable are the liabilities stacking up against them . |
| 12 | If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail . |
| 13 | Numerous journalists , however , have been unable to resist the temptation to compare this current real life role with one of his old screen parts the Thirties movie mogul Monroe Stahr in The Last Tycoon , the film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's last , unfinished novel . |
| 14 | The two farms have been unable to sell milk for nearly four weeks , and farmers ' leaders are becoming increasingly concerned about the apparent lack of progress in solving the mystery . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The more I think on it the more I see that this cruel sentence may yet be turned to advantage and may be God 's way of effecting what I most desire and have been unable to bring about . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | The women were badly injured and two of them have been unable to return to work . |
| 19 | A full and concise response ( together with an offer of compensation if appropriate ) will follow within the next 28 days unless we have been unable to investigate your claim fully within that time , in which case you will receive a detailed explanation for the delay and a full reply within 56 days from receipt of your initial correspondence . |
| 20 | This situation is the result of a chronic constitutional impasse in which the government and the parliament have been unable to develop a stable and effective working relationship , because of ‘ an unreformed public administration , a loosely worded constitution and an unbalanced party political development ’ . |
| 21 | Moreover , federal states , whether they are based on Christian Democratic ‘ subsidiarity ’ theories or on Anglo-Saxon separation of power theories , have been unable to resist the tendency to centralise , from which all states suffer . |
| 22 | We have been unable to discover what all this apparatus is for and wondered if you might be able to shed some light on the matter ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However many couples who have been unable to have children , are , understandably , reluctant to adopt mentally handicapped children . |
| 25 | I have been unable to book any more New , new mums groups as our group has recently got quite small as many of our members have returned to work . |
| 26 | There is nothing left either in womanpower or funds to devote to blowing our own trumpet , so we have been unable to impress you with the extent and importance of our work . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | An angry managing director of the computer magazine told The Guardian newspaper in November 1982 , ‘ we are suing Mr Kahn for £18,000 in cash , but have been unable to contact him ’ . |
| 29 | Others , for any of many reasons , have been unable to say much . |
| 30 | So far we have been unable to contact : Lawrence Hugh Cecil Hawkins , Walter Howard Husband , Everard Arthur Swinton and John Chipchase Walker . |