Example sentences of "not be able [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter has not been able to cover them all — the impetus GPFHs have had in driving through quality improvements for example ( Glennerster et al. |
| 2 | I fancy you would not be able to give me any more precise an answer than one you 've just given , is n't that right ? |
| 3 | for if you attempt to answer it and miss the point , the examiner may not be able to give you any marks , because you will not have answered his question . |
| 4 | A star may or may not be able to generate its own cash to provide for its own investment . |
| 5 | Ah well not be able to buy her own . |
| 6 | Be aware , then , that he simply will not be able to proof-read his own work , because he may think , for instance , that latter is the correct way to spell later . |
| 7 | Perhaps , yeah we might find that by the time we got to might not be able to get it all on . |
| 8 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 9 | For the first time in my life I was made conscious of not being able to control my own situation . |
| 10 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |