Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Giuliani has been unable to focus voters ' attention on the fact that Mr Dinkins once went several years without paying his taxes , or that he is a product of a corrupt Democratic machine . |
| 2 | Since the standard housing of towns and cities has been unable to provide shelter , urban populations have been compelled to take the situation into their own hands and put up their own homes . |
| 3 | Mrs Adams has been unable to speak to anyone since the tragedy . |
| 4 | I have argued that antiracism has been unable to deal with the new forms in which racism has developed . |
| 5 | I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else ! |
| 6 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |
| 7 | Hitherto the republics and provinces had been unable to agree on a budget and international financial institutions had accordingly blocked credits . |
| 8 | Bernice had been unable to interpret Ace 's behaviour . |
| 9 | His guards had been unable to intercept a single raider , in spite of having been warned of the exercise . |
| 10 | But he quietened down soon after , because when Jennifer turned her dark eyes in his direction he was put suddenly in mind of Martha and understood very well why Tristram had been unable to keep away from her . |
| 11 | Lucy had been unable to disguise her own amusement . |
| 12 | Whatever the force of these criticisms , Willis had introduced the role of the sub-culture into the transition from school to work and had shown how this was developed within the group — something which large scale surveys with their pre-structured questions and their questioning of individuals in isolation had been unable to do . |
| 13 | This nun had read passages of some sort to them but Millie had been unable to make out half of what she had said . |
| 14 | Until the British parliament passed the Naturalisation Act in 1870 , the Queen 's subjects had been unable to renounce their citizenship . |
| 15 | The airline business gave Richard Branson a challenge which , in recent years , the record industry had been unable to provide . |
| 16 | Mauroy had been unable , since his election in March 1990 [ see p. 37330 ] , to bring together the party 's three main factions , headed respectively by Education Minister Lionel Jospin , by Fabius , and by former Prime Minister Michel Rocard . |
| 17 | So far , police on the continent have been unable to confirm his identity . |
| 18 | [ 4.2 If by the Certificate Date the parties have been unable to agree whether any requirement of the Landlord made pursuant to clause 4.1 is reasonable the matter or matters in dispute shall be referred to a counsel to be agreed upon between the parties or failing agreement within [ 5 ] working days after the Certificate Date to one of the conveyancing counsel for the time being of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice [ " Counsel " ] to be nominated on the application of either party by the President for the time being of the Law Society ( or his duly appointed deputy or any other person authorised by him to make appointments on his behalf ) and Counsel shall : |
| 19 | For years foreigners have been unable to make up their minds whether Cuba 's showpiece investment in genetic engineering is an expensive folly or the foundation of a high-tech economy . |
| 20 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 21 | higher in Scotland than in England and Wales , a fact for which COSLA has been unable to give any credible explanation . |
| 22 | But the fact remains that twenty seven months after legislation to allow clients to choose solicitors to appear for them in the higher courts came into effect , the Advisory Committee has been unable to advance the process . |
| 23 | Arata Isozaki/James Stewart Polshek , consulting architects for the Master Plan , gutted the four-and-a-half-story wing , creating 30,000 square feet of new gallery space , but the museum has been unable to avail itself of its newfound riches . |
| 24 | There are now 100 families in the town living in bed and breakfast hotels and more than 60 placed in hostels the situation is so bad that the council has been unable to move anyone off its waiting list for almost two months . |
| 25 | Discontented gentry unlocked the door which legal reformers had been unable to unlock for themselves . |
| 26 | The Committee had been unable to decide how successful school feeding would be , but suggested that local authorities should keep a close watch upon voluntary experiments . |
| 27 | To cover the areas of special interest that Gould had been unable to investigate personally , he had to rely on a network of collectors he had recruited in the course of his travels . |
| 28 | Pawlak had been unable to present a Cabinet on July 2 , after the three-party " small coalition " [ see p. 38881 ] deserted his own Polish Peasant Party ( PSL ) . |
| 29 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 30 | There are shallow inlets and islands in the Portsmouth area , but the main river valleys , although aggraded in their lower reaches , are not rias , presumably because the rivers have brought down so much alluvium that they have filled any rias which may have been present , whereas the rivers of Pembroke and south-west Ireland have been unable to achieve this . |