Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] able [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote immediately to the SMG , cutting off all contact : ‘ I am not interested in agencies who politic and posture for no other reason than to promote themselves … secondly , as I am not presently able to place any trust in you , I must insist that any further matters you wish to raise are channelled through to a suitable agency , viz the local council or HCRC . ’ |
| 2 | Since we are not yet able to predict all the interactions which may be important in a study of environmental problems , collecting potentially useful data as well as those believed central to the problem under study is often wise ; |
| 3 | We are not yet able to say which of these two parameters changed at the glitches . |
| 4 | Since spermatozoa in ejaculated semen are not yet able to penetrate the egg , the spermatozoa have to undergo careful treatment in the laboratory to achieve the maturation which normally occurs in the female reproductive tract . |
| 5 | A third type of spectrometer , fundamentally simpler than the other two , uses a tunable monochromatic source ; instruments using IR-emitting diodes have been produced , but are not yet able to replace interferometers . |
| 6 | It is generally recognised that there is a great deal of information in the speech wave — particularly prosodic information — which we are not yet able to isolate and use . |
| 7 | Turning to another point , whereas experimentalists are required to quote errors as a matter of course , theoretical chemists are not yet able to provide both upper and lower bounds in calculations of energies . |
| 8 | This is particularly an issue with emerging technologies which are not yet able to provide seamless integration into the corporation 's wider electronic world . |
| 9 | Many of the children are not yet able to write in conventional form , but all tackle the task of labelling the bits and pieces of the space ship . |
| 10 | We are not even able to consider this extraordinary offer . ’ |
| 11 | However , as MacPherson and others have pointed out , such a formulation fails to come to terms with the central dilemma confronting liberalism , which is that in an unequal society , where some people come to depend on provision made by others in order to pursue their livelihood , all are not equally able to lead a fully human existence . |
| 12 | But the profit-sharing would have to be ‘ informal ’ as nurses are not legally able to enter into practice partnerships . |
| 13 | The existence of a variety of systematic teaching methods suggest a belief that teachers are not always able to evaluate teaching methods and materials appropriate to their pupils . |
| 14 | Even when children care desperately for their elderly parents and have to put them in a home because of lack of personal resources , they are not always able to keep up regular contact because of moving to find employment . |
| 15 | For example , there are today many fewer tuberculosis cases and far more mentally handicapped persons using the services than there were in the 1950s and this means new demands are placed on the staff that they are not always able to meet . |
| 16 | However , such concerns are beyond the scope of this article , and although we are not always able to separate out the different areas of linguistic interest in the characterisation of an individual in a dramatic text ( many individual character traits are receptive to a number of different linguistic approaches ) , the large number of insights into characterisation offered by discourse and pragmatic analysis indicates the large extent to which they may be used effectively by the student of dramatic texts . |
| 17 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 18 | That those who are not really able to pay , who are genuinely hit very hard by the current eighty three pounds , is n't it for a colour television licence , I think ? |
| 19 | Unfortunately they are not all able to survive in an aquarium and some of the most colourful varieties are the most delicate . |
| 20 | It is a view held not only by expert bodies and individuals but also by a substantial proportion of the general public who are not necessarily able to explain why and how this process takes place . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , we 're not yet able to get a large enough supply of completely CFC-free material , but do hope to be able to in the near future . |
| 22 | A military man , Captain John Smith , pulled the colony together in 1608 but it became all too clear that the colonists were not even able to feed themselves ; 1609 was remembered as ‘ the starving time ’ and the settlers were preparing to give up and leave for England when Lord De La Warr arrived with fresh supplies and new settlers in June 1610 . |
| 23 | Britain today has a woman Prime Minister and yet just over 70 years ago women were not even able to vote . |
| 24 | At recent book fairs in London and Florence , publishers were not even able to make use of stands which were provided for free , since they simply had nothing to show . |
| 25 | The electrical giants of the age , Siemens and Edison , were not yet able to offer a viable alternative . |
| 26 | The people whom Mary came to rule in Scotland were not simply able to rest on their laurels of size , wealth and power , like the French whom she had ruled as queen consort ; nor were they introspective and xenophobic , like the English whom she wanted to rule . |
| 27 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |
| 28 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 29 | Teenage parents were not as able to take on the role of head of the family , and there was therefore an increased risk of abuse and neglect of the children . |
| 30 | I have always enjoyed reading books but feel privileged to read these two books , simply because of the hardships suffered by Celie and Ponyboy in the quest for access to the world of books and knowledge , that because of their poverty they were not always able to afford . |