Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] 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 | This is particularly an issue with emerging technologies which are not yet able to provide seamless integration into the corporation 's wider electronic world . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We are not yet able to say which of these two parameters changed at the glitches . |
| 6 | 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 ; |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We are not even able to consider this extraordinary offer . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Unfortunately they are not all able to survive in an aquarium and some of the most colourful varieties are the most delicate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |