Example sentences of "unable [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a good ol' boy from Alabama who is unable to go any length of time without touching a golf club . |
| 2 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 3 | She came to a full stop , quite overcome , quite unable to continue such a pedestrian account . |
| 4 | Thank you for all your contributions over the last year , and please accept my apologies if I have n't been able to use an article that you 've sent , hopefully the next issue will contain those for which due to lack of space I was unable to include this time . |
| 5 | Once its position as such authorised representative was first suspended , and then terminated , Winchester was unable to conduct any investment business . |
| 6 | Watching him , they were unable to see each other so could only guess at what warned him . |
| 7 | Anyone in the building can breathe and move but is unable to see any thing , so the theory is that he wanders clueless in a cloud until the security-squad charges in with a chemical that breaks the foam up . |
| 8 | Whereas for the other his faulty picture may go back to badly tangled family relationships which have left him unable to see any authority as good or loving . |
| 9 | ‘ Is that smoke ? ’ she asked him , pausing on a bridge to gaze some more , though unable to see any source of a fire . |
| 10 | They hesitated among the thick heather , unable to see more than a few feet ahead . |
| 11 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 12 | Cash-paying customers , unable to see more than a backswing , chose to misunderstand the intention of the organisers , and flattened them . |
| 13 | Parson thought this was ridiculous , but he realized that even days before he would flee , the Shah was unable to acknowledge that power had slid from him like snow from the mountains in spring . |
| 14 | Aware that the situation was getting out of hand and unable to cope any more with their triangular relationship , Norman took himself off to Cornwall . |
| 15 | Otherwise , Goldwyn remained chiefly a facilitator and a financier , and Berg is unable to support any more substantial claim for him , or to resolve the ambiguities in the producer 's role . |
| 16 | Two early studies showed an increased faecal bile acid excretion in patients with colonic cancer , but later studies have been unable to confirm this . |
| 17 | Another possibility is that there could be a relationship between this inflammation and infection with Helicobacter pylori , although we are unable to confirm this from our study , since the organism was not specifically looked for in every case . |
| 18 | It is understood the site will be used as a Nissan dealership although the car maker 's UK headquarters at Sunderland was unable to confirm this . |
| 19 | Discrepant results have been described by Fiorrucci and coworkers who were unable to confirm any difference in gall bladder emptying rates induced by hormonal stimulation . |
| 20 | As 1916 dawned , the Allies were unable to plan any immediate offensive , since the new British armies were not yet ready ; but the Central Powers could plan two : one at Verdun and an Austrian attack on Italy . |
| 21 | Once Heseltine departed , succeeding Secretaries of State for the Environment such as King , Jenkins and Baker , were unwilling or unable to sustain this vision . |
| 22 | His function was to provide early support , or early encouragement , to artists beginning to make their way in the market , or unable to sustain some particular project within it . |
| 23 | Congress , time and time again , the majority of our sponsored MPs appear unable to sustain any sort of attack on this government 's policies . |
| 24 | In such cases the system will be unable to spot any error as they will pass successfully through all stages of analysis . |
| 25 | Never having flown in an aeroplane , I was unable to corroborate this view . |
| 26 | Our venerable brother Sam … ‘ ( he never misses a dig ) ‘ would be unable to perform such an act of skill , owing to his debauchery . ’ |
| 27 | True plants are unable to perform this trick , but many can and do use a scent to avoid danger . |
| 28 | On the following day , the day of their return ( only they were not to be expected until the late evening ) Franca , who was so used to being by herself , was unable to perform any ordinary activity . |
| 29 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |
| 30 | And , okay , unable to perform any part of her normal occupation and they 're not doing anything else , for which they 're paid , not following any other gainful occupation okay , so definition is , unable to perform any part of their normal occupation , and they 're not following any other gainful employment . |