Example sentences of "been unable [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 2 | If you have been unable to detect the early symptoms and the disease has progressed ( very common with ponds where fish can easily hide or where water clarity is poor ) you will have to catch all the affected fish and treat them in a salt bath . |
| 3 | The Collector had been unable to see the latter part of this action , which had taken place in thick yellow dust and smoke ( the snow having mysteriously ceased ) . |
| 4 | Recent prospective studies have been unable to confirm a linear relationship between alcohol intake and the development of cirrhosis , and even for steatosis , the severity has been found to be unrelated to the amount , duration , or type of alcohol consumed . |
| 5 | Turner , who scored over 300 points last season after joining the club from Acklam , has been unable to recapture the same form . |
| 6 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 7 | If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail . |
| 8 | State Premier Joan Kirner had inherited office when John Cain was forced to resign in August 1990 after a Royal Commission inquiry into the collapse of the merchant banking arm of the state bank , Tricontinental , revealed a record of financial mismanagement , but she had been unable to reverse the consequent unpopularity of her party . |
| 9 | President Walesa has been unable to form a stable government , usually because one or more of the coalition partners have been unwilling to share responsibility for unpopular economic policies . |
| 10 | Mr de Klerk has been unable to stop the sharp rise in violent crime : 20,135 murders last year compared with 14,700 the year before . |
| 11 | Northern governments preparing for next year 's Cairo conference on population have been unable to agree a joint strategy . |
| 12 | His guards had been unable to intercept a single raider , in spite of having been warned of the exercise . |
| 13 | Nonetheless the Committee remains purely consultative , and it has been unable to create the initial momentum for the creation of a comprehensive social policy . |
| 14 | Though the campaign scarcely gripped the imagination as the victories in the west had done — some reports hinted that the significance of the campaign had not been properly grasped , and that the victories had been unable to affect the popular mood for more than a very short time — it seemed to provide yet another example of Hitler 's strategic genius . |
| 15 | The sheer scale of military involvement was bound to place a major strain on her resources , and it was unlikely that a Japan that had been unable to achieve a Chinese surrender in four years when her military efforts were largely concentrated on that country would be able to secure a military victory now that many of her resources were diverted elsewhere . |
| 16 | In his own published letter relating to the episode Major Wiseman stated that three planes had taken off , had been unable to locate the dropping zone , had turned back , and that one had failed to return and ‘ was presumed shot down in the Channel ’ . |
| 17 | On these occasions those temporary workers recruited were ex-employees — those who had been dismissed in recent downturns and who had been unable to find a new job . |
| 18 | I am still under the influence of Milton 's potent spell cast in the first two books and have been unable to find a successful remedy in the following books to bring . |
| 19 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 20 | Recent Secretaries of State for Education have been known to favour educational vouchers as a way of increasing parental choice and allowing the quality of schools to be judged by market forces though they have been unable to find a workable system . |
| 21 | Although all denominations within Christian and other churches have provided a measure of religious service for many people , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this is because such people have been unable to find an acceptable alternative . |
| 22 | The Socialists have been unable to clinch a similar deal with the Greens but they have now announced that they will unilaterally pull out their candidates in favour of better placed Green candidates in the second round . |
| 23 | An older and smaller satellite , the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) , has recorded the ring 's changing brightness , but has been unable to produce a clear image of it . |
| 24 | For the very fountain head of the triboluminescent effect mentioned in these columns to the astonishment of the entire civilised world , had been unable to produce a single flash from a load of peppermints hot from the press or the ovens or whatever machinery is used . |
| 25 | ‘ For the third year running , we have been unable to build a single house , yet in that period we have had to re-house nearly 2,000 homeless families . ’ |
| 26 | They admit they are baffled by their findings because they have been unable to discover a common link to all the tragic cases . |
| 27 | But by the mid-1980s , after more than a decade of discussion the G-77 had been unable to get the industrialised countries to agree to substitute the mandatory ‘ shall ’ for the advisory ‘ should ’ in the draft Code ( Zacher and Finlayson , 1988 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 28 | She has been unable to get an academic job since ; she did not get a job in science until 1990 , when she was hired by Genetics Institute , a biotechnology company founded by one of her few supporters , Mark Ptashne of Harvard . |
| 29 | The picture drawn is a static one , and it has been unable to provide a convincing account of how and why changes have occurred in the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 30 | The Emir Bashir the Third , who ruled Mount Lebanon for the Sublime Porte in Istanbul , had been unable to contain the bitter disputes which had broken out between the two communities . |