Example sentences of "unable [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus far , however , the Rome government is concerned above all not to evoke memories of 1986 , when Italy found itself unable to support the US bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi , and the EC appeared hopelessly at odds with itself . |
| 2 | Unable to contain the Goblin Warlord 's ambitions , the Dwarfs resolved to shut their stout doors and defend their fortresses from within . |
| 3 | Unless Iraq 's dictator sounds the retreat in the next few days , he will soon be unable to meet the January 15th deadline set by the United Nations for the complete removal of his army from Kuwait . |
| 4 | Also Branson was unable to identify the Clarkes and Bartholomew as the men who had broken into his home . |
| 5 | RJ2.2.5 , a mutant derived from the human B-lymphoma cell , Raji , is unable to express the MHC class II genes because of a recessive transcriptional defect attributed to the lack of an activator function . |
| 6 | Unable to afford the Monet themselves , the Musées de France initiated negotiations for purchase , not by the State but by the insurance company G.A.N. Under the terms of 1990 regulations such firms may acquire works of art considered of importance to France 's national heritage and are not taxed on the purchase price . |
| 7 | The president of the society , ninety-five year old Mr T W Ventress , was unable to leave the Whitby nursing home where he now lives to visit the 1987 show which I attended . |
| 8 | But the British authorities were unable to protect the Littlejohns when they were arrested for the robbery of £67,000 from a bank in Grafton Street , Dublin , in 1972 . |
| 9 | His first taste of Test captaincy came at the Oval in 1988 ; he was unable to stem the West Indian flood , but produced a battling second innings to make a game of it . |
| 10 | But consider how the following additional constraints would make your task so much more difficult ( and relate these constraints to the problems of being unable to study the SCN directly , of being unsure of exactly how it then sends its information to produce the rhythms in , say , temperature or urine flow — things that we can measure — and even of not being certain that the SCN is the only area in the brain that is part of the body clock ) . |
| 11 | The Stanleys promptly married the girls into their own family , but in the short term they were unable to dislodge the Harringtons from Hornby , and the dispute dragged on into Edward 's second reign . |
| 12 | The Stanleys promptly married the girls into their own family , but in the short term they were unable to dislodge the Harringtons from Hornby , and the dispute dragged on into Edward 's second reign . |
| 13 | It can not have done the YF-23 any good that it was unable to kick the AMRAAMs out of its weapons bay on demand . |
| 14 | His son , Stephen Uroš ( 1355–71 ) , was unable to hold the Serbs together despite the growing Turkish threat . |
| 15 | The home side were at full stretch and with little possession were unable to threaten the RUC line . |
| 16 | It was next day , Wednesday , that Bill Muggeridge went to Mr Crumwallis and said he would be unable to take the Burleigh team to the All-Swessex Schools Swimming Championships on Thursday . |
| 17 | Twelve years earlier , in 1970 , the Soviet Union had been unable to restrain the PFLP from provoking a showdown with Jordan . |
| 18 | If the pilot 's warning had not prepared him to recognise them , Rostov would have been unable to distinguish the Simonova 's reception party from the deckhands working around them . |