Example sentences of "unable [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many as a quarter of British houses may be unable to erect a dish that can be lined up with the satellite with enough accuracy for good reception . |
| 2 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 3 | being unable to see a hazard in dim lighting , especially on stairs and in passageways and halls . |
| 4 | More recently , Bertrand et al suggested a link between familial airway hyperreactivity and premature birth , but Chan et al were unable to support a role of maternal asthma in low birth weight . |
| 5 | Last week the Appeal Court was unable to uphold a residence order , granted by the High Court to Nottinghamshire SSD and designed to stop the father having contact with his three teenage daughters . |
| 6 | It had destroyed his promise and left him unable to sustain a relationship . |
| 7 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 8 | Fellatio was particularly common where the assailant had been drinking and was unable to sustain an erection or reach orgasm . |
| 9 | We do it when we decide that someone is unable to attend a school we have already described as ‘ comprehensive ’ . |
| 10 | The Supreme Soviet session , which had begun on Nov. 16 in chaos as deputies were unable to agree an agenda , continued until the end of the November . |
| 11 | Jim Lancaster fingered the open door of his house , unable to hide a look of worry . |
| 12 | Harry asked , unable to hide an edge of bitterness in his voice . |
| 13 | We were unable to discover a donor whose buccal epithelial cells gave reproducible and unambiguous adherence and non-adherence with the appropriate control strains ; buccal cells which bound adhesive E coli strains also tended to have a resident salivary flora which was not readily removed by washing . |
| 14 | In January 1964 the Leaders learnt that the Reverend William Buchanan ( President of the Church 1990–1991 ) was unable to accept an invitation to succeed the Reverend Val Silcock as second minister on the Circuit . |
| 15 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |
| 16 | The Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda suggested that one of the reasons why Pogosyan was resigning was that for several days he had been unable to secure an audience with Gorbachev to discuss developments in Armenia . |
| 17 | So far the police have been unable to establish a motive for his murder . |
| 18 | Those firms who did not have one strong business driver building the operation were often unable to establish a business base in the late 1970s . |
| 19 | Only a very small number of authorities were unable to say that some money was being directly spent on training or were unable to indicate a person or people at least nominally responsible for training ( see Chapter 3 for discussion of resources available for training ) . |
| 20 | It will be assumed for the sake of argument that this patient had not indicated or is unable to indicate a desire that treatment on the ventilator be terminated . |
| 21 | The speechwriter also has applications as a tool for disabled users who are unable to work a keyboard and , provided it can one day be shrunk to laptop size , could well be useful for sales people wanting to record data while on their travels . |
| 22 | On this occasion the lack of odour can be detrimental , as several light gases , notoriously carbon monoxide and methane are toxic and the human nose unable to provide a warning of their presence . |
| 23 | Unable to find a dress she liked , Sherine discovered her own talent for fashion |
| 24 | The failed type of woman , as personified by most of the teachers at school , had been unable to find a man . |
| 25 | Owners VSEL , which have has run the yard since it was privatised in 1985 , said they were unable to find a buyer for the site . |
| 26 | In an unusual move a bookseller is preparing to give away his shop , complete with a five year lease and £15,000 worth of stock at retail , because he has been unable to find a buyer for it . |
| 27 | The shop has been on the market for over a year , and I have been unable to find a buyer . |
| 28 | Ryan Giggs missed three chances while Brian McClair and Hughes were unable to find a way through a well organised City defence . |
| 29 | Leeds tried to force their way back in a second-half during which they dominated the game but were unable to find a way through a Liverpool defence in which Mark Wright and Rob Jones were outstanding . |
| 30 | Specialists from the Cambridge-based Sea Mammal Research Unit believe that they are unable to find a way out and that a rescue attempt may be needed . |