Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closeted in the conference palace at Taif — itself built by a Lebanese-born millionaire — the MPs found themselves unable to exercise their normal function of playing to the gallery . |
| 2 | When the studio system collapsed , many of the directors who had flourished within it found themselves unable to impose themselves on a process that too easily slipped out of their control . |
| 3 | Yet , when faced once again with war between north and south , Christian and Moor , they found themselves unable to relate to their brothers in France or Italy , who in turn regarded them as scandalously Islamicised . |
| 4 | However , local farmers found themselves unable effectively to combat the pollution or even to extract adequate damages from the company . |
| 5 | It was n't just the major record companies that found themselves unable to cope with '89 's burgeoning Rave scene . |
| 6 | But although the rebels had thus far outmanoeuvred the king , they found themselves unable to translate their military success into long-term political supremacy . |
| 7 | From 1973–5 the Soviet Union sold Peru aircraft , tanks , surface-to-air missiles and artillery on very generous terms and when , in 1978 , the Peruvians found themselves unable to maintain payments for their weapons , the Soviet Union rolled over the debt until 1981–8 , indicating their reluctance to relinquish this sole market . |
| 8 | As the mines became deeper companies found themselves unable to provide the necessary capital for winding and pumping equipment . |
| 9 | Purely East German groupings such as the Alliance " 90 , made up of many of the groups which had sparked initial resistance to the Honecker regime , found themselves unable to compete on equal terms . |
| 10 | But although the rebels had thus far outmanoeuvred the king , they found themselves unable to translate their military success into long-term political supremacy . |
| 11 | As a result , Marx and Engels were not only wrong about this early stage in the history of mankind , but they also left themselves unable to deal with it theoretically . |