Example sentences of "would be unable [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back at this time , Nigel was surprisingly patient , but he was worried that , if he did n't improve , he 'd be unable to help with the move as almost any movement of his right arm increased his suffering . |
| 2 | Such confrontation could so interrupt the subconscious flow that he would , in fact , be brought back with a jolt to the present time and would be unable to continue with the regression at all . |
| 3 | However , Whipple says that assumption leads to predictions of gas and dust production rates much smaller than those observed , and also would be unable to account for the formation of the Perseid meteor shower , linked with the comet . |
| 4 | If one attempted to present a computer with more than one program at a time , it would be unable to deal with the situation and would indicate that an error had been made . |
| 5 | However , under Lord Prosser 's ruling , the parents of that same child would be unable to sue over the death because the child was not a person when the injuries were sustained . |
| 6 | This money would go to the Finnish construction company Rauma-Repola Offshore , whose large oil drilling rigs would be unable to go to the North Sea in a fully assembled condition when the bridge was finished . |
| 7 | Indeed , without such awareness the patient would be unable to co-operate with the therapist and would therefore minimize his chances of a cure . |
| 8 | When the plans were made it was not known that Myrtle Mott would be unable to teach during the year or that one of the days selected would coincide with an invitation for the N.D.T. to appear in Scotland . |
| 9 | The answer is that the advice that should have been given in the circumstances that prevailed on that date was , that if the plaintiffs wished to ignore the contract then they were entitled to serve a completion notice which because the vendor was unable to obtain that would have meant that the vendor would be unable to comply with the completion notice and accordingly the contract would have come to an end . |
| 10 | If , therefore , human beings as a whole progressively delayed the age at which they reproduced , the ‘ death-genes ’ would , over the course of the generations , be gradually filtered out — for the very simple reason that people most affected by ‘ death-genes ’ would die before reproducing , and hence would be unable to pass on the fatal genes to the next generation . |
| 11 | Maidstone prison contains one man who has already served 33 years and staff seemed torn between two beliefs ; one , that the risk he posed ( of further offences against children ) meant that further incarceration was inevitable , the other that his extraordinarily long period in custody meant he would be unable to survive outside the prison walls , anyway . |
| 12 | Many patients would be unable to pay for the treatment prescribed by their doctors . |