Example sentences of "was unable [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The railway was unable to respond to the challenge this presented because of its position as a public authority . |
| 2 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |
| 3 | As she lay in bed that night , she was unable to sleep for the excitement of it all . |
| 4 | Piphros ' vocabulary was indeed limited and was unable to cope with the complexity of some of the things she had asked . |
| 5 | He told them he was unable to account for the error . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , John was unable to recover from the hunger , thirst and cold he had endured alone for so long and he died peacefully on 3rd November , 1835 , 3 days after he was rescued . |
| 7 | This much-postponed third session of talks was unable to agree on the timing of a ceasefire . |
| 8 | Although the CDP continued to be critical of the partnership proposals and of other aspects of CNAA 's operations — including perfunctory and over-large visits and ‘ undue attention … being accorded to criticisms of the management of polytechnics ’ — it was unable to agree on the policy direction in which to go . |
| 9 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 10 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 11 | It was the sort of thing said about someone who was unable to come into the office or , worse , for disciplinary reasons was prevented from doing so . |
| 12 | Initially it seemed quite exciting to her , but she quickly realised that she was unable to care with the intensity felt by the other members of the group . |
| 13 | The gentleman I spoke with was unaware that light aircraft ADF equipment was unable to tune to the half kHz and seemed quite surprised to learn this . |
| 14 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 15 | Trent was unable to read from the map for what distance the banks remained steep but if a fall had blocked off the riverbed then the banks had to be steep right up to where the new river cut away from it . |
| 16 | The defendants called rail workers out on strike and the plaintiff , an ordinary traveller , incurred hotel expenses when he was unable to travel on the journey for which he had bought a ticket . |
| 17 | He could not sleep for two days before Billy 's first night , on 1 May 1974 , and he was unable to eat during the day of the opening show , which was attended by Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother . |
| 18 | However , thanks to a nervous disorder , Cameron Nielson III was unable to play at the party and , at the last minute , Cameron agreed to step in . |
| 19 | But Forbes was unable to shake off the belief that new species were produced by the exertion of a supernatural agent — he proposed a strange theory of ‘ polarity ’ in which the creative power was supposed to have been exerted most strongly at the beginning and at the end of the history of life on earth . |
| 20 | I wandered around but was unable to speak to the owner because , according to a girl who was serving customers , he would n't be in till tomorrow . |
| 21 | George was unable to speak for a moment or two . |