Example sentences of "not be amenable to " in BNC.

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1 Where a chief police officer believed that a march would cause serious disorder which would not be amenable to control he could seek a ban through the local authority to the Home Secretary .
2 Although Mannheim suggested that the pure knowledge of some sciences and mathematics would not be amenable to study in this way , accounts of the social and structural features of even such ‘ pure ’ knowledge have since been completed ( Bloor 1976 ; Gandy 1973 ) .
3 There is no reason why a contractual body performing public functions should not be amenable to these remedies .
4 But the biblical material may simply not be amenable to what they would say .
5 In the diplomatic arena , the coalition made it clear throughout the campaign that it would not be amenable to peace initiatives so long as the Iraqi leadership remained unprepared to accede unconditionally to the requirements as laid down in the successive UN Security Council resolutions .
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