Example sentences of "unable [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many as a quarter of British houses may be unable to erect a dish that can be lined up with the satellite with enough accuracy for good reception . |
| 2 | Their bodies seem unable to sense a high intake and continue to manufacture cholesterol in excess of requirements . |
| 3 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 4 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 5 | being unable to see a hazard in dim lighting , especially on stairs and in passageways and halls . |
| 6 | My policy , which I believe the committee accepts , is that our regulatory process should be such that any other committee or body appointed to replace us ( should that ever happen ) would adopt the same procedures because they were unable to see a better , fairer way of doing things . |
| 7 | Ectothermic reptiles have a body temperature that tends to vary over a 24-hour period , and hence seem unable to support a large brain . |
| 8 | More recently , Bertrand et al suggested a link between familial airway hyperreactivity and premature birth , but Chan et al were unable to support a role of maternal asthma in low birth weight . |
| 9 | Recent prospective studies have been unable to confirm a linear relationship between alcohol intake and the development of cirrhosis , and even for steatosis , the severity has been found to be unrelated to the amount , duration , or type of alcohol consumed . |
| 10 | Last week the Appeal Court was unable to uphold a residence order , granted by the High Court to Nottinghamshire SSD and designed to stop the father having contact with his three teenage daughters . |
| 11 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 12 | However , despite the bluster , the Provisional Government — in the midst of a World War — was unable to sustain a serious punitive expedition . |
| 13 | It had destroyed his promise and left him unable to sustain a relationship . |
| 14 | Signed two seasons ago from Dunwick Pressed Steel Reserves where he was unable to sustain a second team place , he has found his perfect football niche here at Whaddon . |
| 15 | Unable to sustain a viable communist-led coalition government , Prime Minister Hans Modrow ( in office since November 1989 — see p. 37025 ) made repeated calls during round table talks for opposition leaders to join a broader coalition . |
| 16 | A person may be unable to perform a major life activity which an average person could perform . |
| 17 | Indeed Theodore Roosevelt was suggesting before 1914 that , if the British Empire faltered and was unable to preserve a global balance of power which was compatible with American interests , the United States might have to take an equal or even the leading role in world affairs . |
| 18 | We do it when we decide that someone is unable to attend a school we have already described as ‘ comprehensive ’ . |
| 19 | The talks ended without agreement , the two Ministers unable to agree a joint statement . |
| 20 | Northern governments preparing for next year 's Cairo conference on population have been unable to agree a joint strategy . |
| 21 | The other candidates were excluded from the run-off , but Young was unable to garner a significant share of their votes , polling 38 per cent of the total compared with 62 per cent for Miller . |
| 22 | Jim Lancaster fingered the open door of his house , unable to hide a look of worry . |
| 23 | They admit they are baffled by their findings because they have been unable to discover a common link to all the tragic cases . |
| 24 | We were unable to discover a donor whose buccal epithelial cells gave reproducible and unambiguous adherence and non-adherence with the appropriate control strains ; buccal cells which bound adhesive E coli strains also tended to have a resident salivary flora which was not readily removed by washing . |
| 25 | But he said he was unable to accept a permanent transfer from stage to the Brandywell turf . |
| 26 | It is also worth mentioning that even if the courts did allow an individual shareholder to bring a derivative action , that individual would still be unable to secure a direct remedy . |
| 27 | Again , even if this form of relief were to succeed , an individual shareholder would still be unable to secure a direct remedy because any sums recovered would belong to the company . |
| 28 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |
| 29 | And the police wo n't give Mr wisson their address , so he 's unable to launch a private prosecution against their parents . |
| 30 | Those firms who did not have one strong business driver building the operation were often unable to establish a business base in the late 1970s . |