Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have argued that antiracism has been unable to deal with the new forms in which racism has developed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 7 | The Merseyside father-of-three has been unable to leave Oman after his passport was confiscated in a picture row two months ago . |
| 8 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 9 | It appears that in practice the interim government has been unable to operate in Mogadishu and Mr. Qalib has based himself in a hotel in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 10 | The loans were to be administered by a specially formed company under contract to the government ; but the government has been unable to secure the co-operation of the major banks , who were to be the chief participants in the new company , and the loans scheme is in disarray . |
| 11 | provided that a member or a beneficial owner of a share shall only be required to reimburse the Society to the extent that the Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the recognised body or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator or any such person . |
| 12 | but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . |
| 13 | but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . |
| 14 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that many people in London are deeply disturbed by the increasing incidence of asthma among children , but that the Minister for Health has been unable to give figures relating to the level of asthma suffering in London as a result of air pollution , which is caused mainly by vehicles ? |
| 16 | Despite several attempts , the county has been unable to persuade Braintree District Council to approve plans for a southern link road around Sudbury near the Braintree area . |
| 17 | Despite several attempts , the county has been unable to persuade Braintree District Council to approve plans for a southern link road around Sudbury near the Braintree area . |
| 18 | That UNTAC has been unable to make them do so is its only serious failure so far . |
| 19 | Bt strains have traditionally been classified by serotyping , but this system has been unable to cope with the vast number of new strains discovered recently . |
| 20 | If the system has been unable to open the file , the handle returned will be 0 . |
| 21 | It is as if the company in some very deep way has been unable to acknowledge that customers even have choices . |
| 22 | Swan Hunter is to make 1,400 redundancies because the company has been unable to find any new contracts . |
| 23 | Compaq 's success in Japan could be marred only by reports that it can not produce enough to meet new demand in Japan — a major industrial company has been unable to get the high-end computer-aided design workstation machine it ordered for around three months now , and hears that the plants are focussed on producing low-cost hardware rather than high-performance models . |
| 24 | The matter may be looked at retrospectively ( ie where the partner has been unable to work for some defined period or periods ) or prospectively ( where it has become apparent that the partner 's health has failed and will not improve ) . |
| 25 | LIFESPAN has been unable to add to/open the File Transfer Authorisation File in your SYS$LOGIN directory . |
| 26 | LIFESPAN has been unable to create the Design Change ( DC ) listing file in your current directory since the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |
| 27 | LIFESPAN has been unable to create the output file in your current directory since the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |
| 28 | It is possible that LIFESPAN has been unable to create the output file for the mail in your current directory as the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |
| 29 | LIFESPAN has been unable to create the output file for the mail in your current directory since the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |
| 30 | Yet in using concepts developed from the public domain , malestream political sociology has been unable to put issues of crucial concern to women on its agenda . |