Example sentences of "unable to make [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 2 | For days afterwards , he was unable to make a telephone call without imagining he was being laughed at on the other end of the line . |
| 3 | With a shoe clutched in each hand he was unable to make a grab for the rougher stones that might have saved him from disaster . |
| 4 | If still unable to make a decision , weigh the ‘ pros ’ and ‘ cons ’ in terms of importance . |
| 5 | If you are therefore unable to make a booking , see the HCI Representative in your resort . |
| 6 | Should you be unable to make a booking during the above times please take advantage of the 24 hour telephone answering service . |
| 7 | Molly used the word , unable to make a joke , or a tragedy or even , for the moment , a sentence of it . |
| 8 | But the two strikers looked unable to make an impact early on against the big Harefield back four , and it was Harefield who appeared most dangerous in the opening period , putting Town keeper , Mickey Cummings under a lot of pressure . |
| 9 | Police were unable to make an arrest because they lacked evidence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even when people intellectually accept the need for change , they are sometimes emotionally unable to make the adjustment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Larkin 's wife Kay was unable to make the journey on medical grounds . |
| 14 | ‘ He was simply unable to make the decision so I asked him , ‘ What do you want from your life ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Captain Ferguson , however , was not the senior in his rank , but the other captains were unable to make the purchase . |
| 17 | Whichever way you held them , they would have been quite unable to make the rays of the sun converge . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Caught in the poverty trap , they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |