Example sentences of "unable make the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been awarded the Hanseatic-Goethe prize but was unable to make the trip to Germany in order to receive it , and even now was attempting to prepare an address for the following year . |
| 2 | Even when people intellectually accept the need for change , they are sometimes emotionally unable to make the adjustment . |
| 3 | Mr. Brooks , a friend of Dad 's , suffered from corns and so was unable to make the journey to buy his own papers without considerable discomfort . |
| 4 | Mr Larkin 's wife Kay was unable to make the journey on medical grounds . |
| 5 | ‘ He was simply unable to make the decision so I asked him , ‘ What do you want from your life ? ’ |
| 6 | In this case , however , I have been unable to make the separation and the fieldwork is both empirical and continuous ; it is diachronic and retrospective , taking in the historical with the contemporary . |
| 7 | Captain Ferguson , however , was not the senior in his rank , but the other captains were unable to make the purchase . |
| 8 | Whichever way you held them , they would have been quite unable to make the rays of the sun converge . |
| 9 | Mr Chandler , who lives in Reading , said : ‘ Regardless of the outcome of the case I am convinced that the legal system would be unable to make the punishment fit the crime . |
| 10 | Caught in the poverty trap , they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures . |
| 11 | We must accept that for the years immediately ahead these struggles will be essentially defensive and probably unable to make the transition to more stable , totalizing forms of politics . |
| 12 | If by chance you have already visited Craigendarroch under the terms of this special invitation , I very much regret that we are unable to make the offer a second time . |