Example sentences of "have been unable [to-vb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | higher in Scotland than in England and Wales , a fact for which COSLA has been unable to give any credible explanation . |
| 2 | Independent India has been unable to express any distinctive national culture through its new stations . |
| 3 | Swan Hunter is to make 1,400 redundancies because the company has been unable to find any new contracts . |
| 4 | Det Insp Anthony Caddy told the inquest that the police had been unable to find any independent witnesses who had seen any act of cruelty on Kim by her parents . |
| 5 | So far , ‘ we have been unable to detect any major obnoxious effects on other fish or invertebrates , ’ Hockin says . |
| 6 | This may be so , but in the light of the difficulties inherent in the decision , the very clear decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 and the equally clear statement in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 that the question whether a contract is void or only voidable is irrelevant , I have been unable to reach any other conclusion . |
| 7 | 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 . |