Example sentences of "are unable [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also people who are unable to control such a simple technique as a front kick . |
| 2 | Local authorities in aggregate may suffer a fiscal imbalance inasmuch as they are unable to finance all those expenditure programmes that are considered desirable . |
| 3 | Other couples , not afraid of ordinariness , may also find they are unable to create any of their own excitement within the commitment of marriage . |
| 4 | True plants are unable to perform this trick , but many can and do use a scent to avoid danger . |
| 5 | Yes , computers have practically infinite branching capabilities , but this matters little when we are unable to foresee more than a very few of the more common possible learner responses . |
| 6 | Another possibility is that there could be a relationship between this inflammation and infection with Helicobacter pylori , although we are unable to confirm this from our study , since the organism was not specifically looked for in every case . |
| 7 | Unemployed people with a working spouse are unable to draw this benefit , since the means test is applied to joint income . |
| 8 | If you are unable to answer any of these questions , perhaps it is time you considered your insurance requirements . |
| 9 | Recent attention has been focused on the stunned myocardium and while established methods of assessing ventricular function are unable to detect such jeopardised myocardium , newer imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography , nuclear magnetic resonance or contrast echocardiography may further improve risk stratification in the future . |
| 10 | I can foresee a crisis situation where councils are unable to collect any money because of delays with appeals . ’ |
| 11 | For the same reason , they are unable to hold much water within the shell and are , in consequence , at risk from desiccation at low tide . |
| 12 | If , however , we are unable to resolve any dispute arising out of a complaint than the complaint may be referred to Arbitration under a special scheme devised by arrangement with the Association of British Travel Agents but administered independently by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators . |
| 13 | The market participants are unable to undertake all the mutually advantageous exchanges that would be entered into if buyers and sellers possessed the requisite information . |
| 14 | If they are unable to do this then they should resign as Michael Hesseltine did during the Westland affair . |
| 15 | The Census Offices are unable to do this themselves since they can only extract six areas at a time ! |
| 16 | They are unable to do any of that because they can not leave their children and start to climb the ladder that the Prime Minister has exemplified . |
| 17 | If you are unable to meet this deadline please let me know as soon as possible . |
| 18 | If you are unable to meet this deadline please let me know as soon as possible . |
| 19 | If you are unable to meet this deadline please let me know as soon as possible . |
| 20 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 21 | A minority are unable to make any attachments at all and may need time in a therapeutic community ’ , Elliffe said . |
| 22 | Some old people living alone , who are very frail , are unable to expend all the energy required to take a bath or shower unattended every day , and if their standards of personal hygiene have always been good this can be a real worry to them . |
| 23 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 24 | The term coined by Banfield for this ethic is ‘ amoral familism ’ ; that it is ‘ amoral ’ is implicit in the exclusive pursuit of short-run material advantage ascribed to individuals in such societies , so that they lack any capacity to sacrifice immediate gains in favour of long-term advantage , and they are unable to associate any good to society as a whole with possible good to themselves or their family . |
| 25 | However , some tutors seem to feel that they are unable to accept these modifications despite the syllabus remaining virtually unchanged , though more comprehensive , as befits the education and examination standards of a ‘ professional ’ body that hopes for national recognition . |
| 26 | Sometimes they are unable to tell any other human being of their loss . |
| 27 | We are unable to offer any advice on the use , purchase , repair or modification of commercial equipment or the incorporation or modification of designs published in the magazine . |
| 28 | We are unable to offer any advice on the use , purchase , repair or modification of commercial equipment or the incorporation or modification of designs published in the magazine . |
| 29 | Hayek argues that a consequence of their distrust of abstract theories is that conservatives are unable to offer any alternative to the direction in which social forces are moving ; they look to the past rather than the future . |
| 30 | At present we are unable to offer any explanation for this disparity . |