Example sentences of "[was/were] unable [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that the plaintiffs endeavoured to run the business because of the negligent advice received by them from Mr on the twenty second of October the plaintiffs were unable to withdraw from the contract . |
| 2 | Charles Booth 's 1889 survey of London showed that 30 per cent of the population were unable to rely on a man 's wage alone . |
| 3 | Bruce , however , laid waste the country ahead of the English forces , who were unable to live off the land . |
| 4 | Most of these services were designed primarily to help the physically disabled , especially those who had been in work but who were unable to continue as a result of a crippling accident or disease . |
| 5 | Pakistan finished at 388 for 3 , but were unable to continue until the Saturday , the second day being washed out and landing the TCCB with the second enormous refund of the series , this time estimated at anything up to £250,000 . |
| 6 | He said South Africa 's security forces were unable to deal with the violence , adding : ‘ We are calling for the formation of an internal peace force … the only qualification should be that the peace force be composed of people who are committed to democracy in this country . ’ |
| 7 | More pertinent perhaps , since it casts light upon the vexed question of syntax ( the rule-governed combination of several words into a meaningful whole ) was Terrace 's conclusion that Nim and similar Ameslan apes , despite appearances , were unable to improve upon the meaning of two-sign utterances since longer sets were merely repetitious or random . |
| 8 | The cranes were unable to move around the yard with the lifeboats , so only a small part of the depot area could be used for this work . |
| 9 | One magistrate asserted that weak complainants sometimes had their cases dismissed because they were unable to push through the crowd which blocked the doorway into the court . |
| 10 | In fact , as the article 's authors drily reported , ‘ the majority of officials were unable to respond to the survey with comprehensive , consistent data . ’ |
| 11 | But the climate changed about 65 million years ago ( perhaps exacerbated by a bombardment of meteors ) and the dinosaurs , for reasons that are still unexplained , were unable to cope with the shift . |
| 12 | Nothing was achieved and several men had to be left ashore as they were unable to swim to the boats , whose RNVR crews would not beach for fear of damage to the crafts ' hulls . |
| 13 | The applicant was charged with theft and appeared before a bench of two justices who were unable to agree on a verdict . |
| 14 | US authorities were unable to agree on a process for testing rival drugs . |
| 15 | ( EC central bank governors met in Basle on Oct. 20 but were unable to agree on a statute for the proposed Institute . ) |
| 16 | We prefer to subscribe to an alternative explanation : subjects were unable to work through the implications of increased riskiness but wrongly perceived an increase in it as bad . |
| 17 | When , in April 1916 , the assistant matron , Miss Loader , and the children 's attendant , Miss Thomas , resigned on the grounds that they were unable to work with the matron , and when Mrs. Adams , the labour mistress , also appeared before the committee with a similar complaint , it was evident that all was not well . |
| 18 | So strong was the filmmakers ' infatuation with Hollywood that they were unable to work from an understanding of the situation that faced them , and develop British cinema according to its own economic and cultural realities . |
| 19 | Of the 24 patients who fulfilled the entry criteria , six were unable to comply with the exigencies of the protocol and did not complete the run in period and one patient was later found to be misusing drugs and her data were not included in the analysis . |
| 20 | Others say they were unable to comply with the surgeons instructions that they undertake no lifting or pulling for a period of time after the operation . |
| 21 | Pickets were unable to communicate with the strike-breakers as they were whisked by — peaceful persuasion was not possible . |
| 22 | They were unable to shake off the Searle brothers after 1,000m and , rowing like men inspired , the Molesey pair overwhelmed the champions in the last 500m to finish some 2½ lengths ahead . |
| 23 | Many employees were engineers who built scientific equipment that they were unable to buy from the West and who became superfluous when the two German economies were combined . |
| 24 | At some time between 11pm and 2am yesterday the intruders broke through the main doors of the leisure centre but were unable to get into the bar area . |
| 25 | Indeed , they were unable to get to the heart of providing for those who did not work regularly and hence could not pay regular rent or , often , any rent at all . |
| 26 | Fire crews attending the incident were unable to get to the scene before the cloud developed , due to the five mile contraflow . |
| 27 | The trolleybuses were unable to get up the hill for much of the next day . |
| 28 | were unable to break through a Herrington defence going down by two clear goals . |
| 29 | Pandas then took a turn in their penalty box but — despite fierce shots from their captain , Paul Smith — Durham were unable to capitalise on the power play and , with two minutes of the period left , Bert Hille 's slapshot made it 3-0 . |
| 30 | As no party emblems were allowed , mostly illiterate rural campesinos ( peasants ) and urban slum dwellers in particular were unable to distinguish between the parties and most failed to vote . |