Example sentences of "were unable [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that the plaintiffs endeavoured to run the business because of the negligent advice received by them from Mr on the twenty second of October the plaintiffs were unable to withdraw from the contract . |
| 2 | A few months earlier , West Indies had encountered any number of problems in Australia and had lost the series 5–1 ; they had then beaten India 2–1 at home , the last match being won when no fewer than five Indians were unable to bat in the second innings . |
| 3 | Bruce , however , laid waste the country ahead of the English forces , who were unable to live off the land . |
| 4 | Pakistan finished at 388 for 3 , but were unable to continue until the Saturday , the second day being washed out and landing the TCCB with the second enormous refund of the series , this time estimated at anything up to £250,000 . |
| 5 | He said South Africa 's security forces were unable to deal with the violence , adding : ‘ We are calling for the formation of an internal peace force … the only qualification should be that the peace force be composed of people who are committed to democracy in this country . ’ |
| 6 | More pertinent perhaps , since it casts light upon the vexed question of syntax ( the rule-governed combination of several words into a meaningful whole ) was Terrace 's conclusion that Nim and similar Ameslan apes , despite appearances , were unable to improve upon the meaning of two-sign utterances since longer sets were merely repetitious or random . |
| 7 | The cranes were unable to move around the yard with the lifeboats , so only a small part of the depot area could be used for this work . |
| 8 | One magistrate asserted that weak complainants sometimes had their cases dismissed because they were unable to push through the crowd which blocked the doorway into the court . |
| 9 | However , the Committee were unable to progress beyond the ninth paragraph at that meeting , and another meeting was held six days later to complete the report . |
| 10 | In fact , as the article 's authors drily reported , ‘ the majority of officials were unable to respond to the survey with comprehensive , consistent data . ’ |
| 11 | It was a turbulent time for college principals , and many were unable to cope with the urgent demands for change which constantly assailed them — not least from their own undergraduates . |
| 12 | But the climate changed about 65 million years ago ( perhaps exacerbated by a bombardment of meteors ) and the dinosaurs , for reasons that are still unexplained , were unable to cope with the shift . |
| 13 | Nothing was achieved and several men had to be left ashore as they were unable to swim to the boats , whose RNVR crews would not beach for fear of damage to the crafts ' hulls . |
| 14 | But even at this early stage they were unable to agree on the primary objectives of a scheme of family allowances ( NUSEC , 1918 ) . |
| 15 | We prefer to subscribe to an alternative explanation : subjects were unable to work through the implications of increased riskiness but wrongly perceived an increase in it as bad . |
| 16 | When , in April 1916 , the assistant matron , Miss Loader , and the children 's attendant , Miss Thomas , resigned on the grounds that they were unable to work with the matron , and when Mrs. Adams , the labour mistress , also appeared before the committee with a similar complaint , it was evident that all was not well . |
| 17 | Others say they were unable to comply with the surgeons instructions that they undertake no lifting or pulling for a period of time after the operation . |
| 18 | Of the 24 patients who fulfilled the entry criteria , six were unable to comply with the exigencies of the protocol and did not complete the run in period and one patient was later found to be misusing drugs and her data were not included in the analysis . |
| 19 | Pickets were unable to communicate with the strike-breakers as they were whisked by — peaceful persuasion was not possible . |
| 20 | They were unable to shake off the Searle brothers after 1,000m and , rowing like men inspired , the Molesey pair overwhelmed the champions in the last 500m to finish some 2½ lengths ahead . |
| 21 | Many employees were engineers who built scientific equipment that they were unable to buy from the West and who became superfluous when the two German economies were combined . |
| 22 | The clothiers may well have been able to obtain their raw material relatively cheap , because there is some evidence of wool prices being forced down occasionally by over-production , when growers were unable to dispose of the whole annual clip ( 84 , p.312 ) . |
| 23 | At some time between 11pm and 2am yesterday the intruders broke through the main doors of the leisure centre but were unable to get into the bar area . |
| 24 | Indeed , they were unable to get to the heart of providing for those who did not work regularly and hence could not pay regular rent or , often , any rent at all . |
| 25 | Fire crews attending the incident were unable to get to the scene before the cloud developed , due to the five mile contraflow . |
| 26 | The trolleybuses were unable to get up the hill for much of the next day . |
| 27 | Pandas then took a turn in their penalty box but — despite fierce shots from their captain , Paul Smith — Durham were unable to capitalise on the power play and , with two minutes of the period left , Bert Hille 's slapshot made it 3-0 . |
| 28 | As no party emblems were allowed , mostly illiterate rural campesinos ( peasants ) and urban slum dwellers in particular were unable to distinguish between the parties and most failed to vote . |
| 29 | Though they were the inexhaustible propagandists of the ‘ Führer myth ’ , the Party functionaries were unable to bask in the reflected glow of Hitler 's own popularity . |
| 30 | We were unable to meet with the Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation , Manal Younis , as at the time she was on a ship bound for Iraq with a cargo of medicines and milk . |