Example sentences of "unable to have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hybrids such as the mule are generally unable to have offspring , but in a less restricted sense they are fertile . |
| 2 | What a pity that the members of the Napier Commission which was set up in 1883 to enquire into the conditions of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and Islands were unable to have sittings in Islay ; despite pleas for them to visit the island they finished their tour at Tarbert . |
| 3 | What a pity that the members of the Napier Commission which was set up in 1883 to enquire into the conditions of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and Islands were unable to have sittings in Islay ; despite pleas for them to visit the island they finished their tour at Tarbert . |
| 4 | The court heard that since the accident at St Mellons , near Cardiff , in 1989 , Mr Davies was a nervous wreck and had been unable to have sex . |
| 5 | However many couples who have been unable to have children , are , understandably , reluctant to adopt mentally handicapped children . |
| 6 | This could be a way out for a couple unable to have children because of the wife 's inability to bear a child . |
| 7 | The woman , who is unable to have children of her own and does not wish to be identified , is one of 485 women at a fertility clinic waiting for donor eggs . |