Example sentences of "unable [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company produced 211,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 1991 , although it was unable to compare its emissions with the previous year . |
| 2 | Because of the perceived strategic sensitivities of the region , the regional and local contestants — Syria , Jordan , Israel , Egypt and the PLO — were unable to conduct their struggles without the involvement of the superpowers . |
| 3 | Among the masters the move to destroy unions spread ; and support for the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union , not yet fully organised and unable to sustain its members through the ensuing series of strikes and lock-outs , rapidly faded away . |
| 4 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 5 | 9.1.6 the Tenant has any distress or execution levied on [ its ] goods the Landlord may re-enter the Premises ( or any part of them in the name of the whole ) at any time ( and even if any previous right of re-entry has been waived ) and then the Term will absolutely cease but without prejudice to any rights or remedies which may have accrued to the Landlord against the Tenant or the Guarantor [ or to the Tenant against the Landlord ] in respect of any breach of covenant or other term of this Lease ( including the breach in respect of which the re-entry is made ) All leases will , or should , contain a forfeiture provision which is usually in the form of a proviso reserving to the landlord a right of re-entry in the event of non-payment of rent , breach of covenant or circumstances resulting in , or likely to give rise to , the probability of the tenant being unable to perform its obligations under the lease , eg bankruptcy or liquidation . |
| 6 | The girls knew that the ‘ few quid ’ would be a generous sum , and even if she was unable to buy nice things , it would show Eileen that her father approved of the marriage , though he was unable to express his feelings in the letter sent with it . |
| 7 | In 1990 a major supplier failed to complete development of an important microprocessor in time to deliver parts during the year — this was the time when Tadpole was to bring Intel Corp 80860 boards on stream — so it was unable to fulfil US orders for the board . |
| 8 | The ‘ beglye ’ became ‘ kulaks ’ when many poor peasants were unable to liquidate their debts despite the better harvests of 1922 and 1923 . |
| 9 | Unable to force our legs through the sheer weight of the waves any more , we collapse . |
| 10 | The textbooks may have moved on , but it 's a fair bet that people at large remain equally unable to get their heads round the idea that ‘ mind ’ is a product of the ordinary stuff of the brain , rather than a distinct quality . |
| 11 | Trainees were being sought by a confusing mixture of providers competing with each other but unable to get them jobs in the end . |
| 12 | Molly asked , unable to take her eyes off the beautiful specimen . |
| 13 | ‘ What does that mean ? ’ she whispered unevenly , unable to take her eyes off the dark , angular face opposite her . |
| 14 | Max Caulfield , in his biography of Mrs Whitehouse , sums up the argument in one sentence , saying ‘ as to the purpose of all this frenzy it was easy to explain that the forces of revolution , unable to achieve their objectives at the ballot box or , because of the existence of the nuclear bomb , by full-scale war , were endeavouring to encourage moral decay ’ . |