Example sentences of "not [be] able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , without prior agreement , they may not disclose confidential information to their backers as this could damage the business of the company and affect the price which the vendors may be able to obtain for their shares ; they may not be able to vote at board meetings on major issues affecting the company if those issues might adversely affect a possible management buy-out ; and they can not involve any of their colleagues in the buy-out or persuade staff to become involved . |
| 2 | As long as there is a good reason why you will not be able to vote in person on election day you can apply to vote by post or proxy . |
| 3 | Ask the electoral registration officer for an application form ( RPF9 ) as soon as an election has been announced and you know that you will not be able to vote in person . |
| 4 | If there are few good journals in a specialty , editors may not be able to publish during tenure unless some mechanism can be found to allow for this eventuality . |
| 5 | We have already seen that you will not be able to rely upon employment law rights if , in reality , you are not an employee or if your contract is unenforceable , as when it involves an element of illegality . |
| 6 | Dear Steve Racist Liar Prat , your theft of my copyrights and your brief ‘ celebration ’ of your ‘ scoop ’ , which you paraded to your fellow racist crooks at my expense , has been noted and you shall be , believe me , very sorry that you sought to persist in gloating in your backward , immoral capacity to confect racist lies on the assumption that I shall not be able to retaliate in kind . |
| 7 | recommendations happy with them , is there any reason why we 'll not be able to proceed without delay . |
| 8 | Equally the buyer will not be able to sue for non-delivery unless he was ready and willing to pay or else it had been agreed that he could have credit . |
| 9 | It follows therefore , that a fireman fighting a fire at a factory which is not his place of employment , will not be able to sue for breach of such a statutory duty ( Hartley v Mayoh & Co [ 1954 ] 1 QB 383 ) . |
| 10 | We 'll not be able to break with tradition . |
| 11 | thumped this girl back , he says and I told him he will not be able to stay at school for dinner |
| 12 | After that time any light emitted from the star would not be able to escape to infinity but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 13 | As earn outs are based on future performance and are only payable in the future , they enable the purchaser to agree to a price it may not be able to afford at completion and which it will not be obliged to pay unless profits are generated . |
| 14 | No , I 'm just trying to work out how long I 'm gon na be practising for West Side Story tomorrow because you might have to take my money my pocket money tomorrow I might not be able to get like home , sort of cos er I I might be practising till bloody six o'clock for all I know so I 'll get some chips or something . |
| 15 | Right , and you simply may not be able to switch into milk production or horticulture , because you do n't have the technological know-how , or the soil may be inappropriate , the climate may be inappropriate , right , so that 's another factor , influencing , well making er , supply quite rigid , quite inflexible in , in the short run . |
| 16 | So try it like that and swing your mallet too so you wo n't be able to go above hoop three and |
| 17 | ‘ Because I 've no qualifications I 'm not going to get a high paid job , so I wo n't be able to pay for childcare . |
| 18 | These journalists probably wo n't be able to write about Christmas cards in their columns but they will be interested in the current range of fun notelets and notepaper . |
| 19 | No , no , if you got called away there would n't be anybody to take over until the next relief if , if the man was coming up the dock with two yo yo well you would n't be able to get in touch with him either . |