Example sentences of "[is] unable [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't look after the salon at lunchtimes , as she 's unable to answer the phone . |
| 2 | Sometimes his ideas are good , but when they 're not , he 's unable to recognise the fact . |
| 3 | If an arrangement is chosen that can not physically pass through its end positions without breaking the couple , then the iterative procedure will state , after a set number of attempts , that it is unable to re-establish the associations in this configuration . |
| 4 | One group who also suffer deeply are secret , adulterous lovers where one partner is killed and the survivor is unable to see the body or go to the funeral . |
| 5 | As a result of the 1988 Immigration Act , Prakesh is unable to appeal the deportation order . |
| 6 | When a hospital patient is unable to perform the activities of daily life for him- or herself , staff are on hand to help ; such staff are called ‘ nurses ’ , though in reality ward staff do little that requires a skilled qualified nursing background . |
| 7 | If it is a cancellation at very short notice and the hotel is unable to re-let the accommodation , particularly in the case of resort hotels whose reservations are taken well in advance , the hotel may then be able to claim compensation for the loss of business . |
| 8 | The lack of resources allocated by the government — one man is responsible for overseeing timber operations across the country — has meant that it is unable to enforce the regulations . |
| 9 | Mr. Richards rightly does not deal with the judge 's decision as such , but he is unable to uphold the judge 's ruling for two reasons which can be stated at once . |
| 10 | The Canadian government has repeatedly criticised the Burmese junta 's human rights record , but says it is unable to control the actions of the oil company , even though Petro-Canada is 80 per cent state owned . |
| 11 | Gandhi is unable to harbour the thought , even secretly , that another man 's faith is inferior to his own because of his belief that different faiths are God 's creation and thereby equally holy . |
| 12 | If the excitation changes are made too quickly the motor is unable to move the motor to the new demanded position and consequently there is a permanent error in the actual load position compared to the position expected by the controller . |
| 13 | If money is short while the patient is ill , there is great pressure on the carer and the family , and often it may mean that the patient is unable to receive the specialist rehabilitation treatment which is increasingly difficult to obtain under the National Health Service . |
| 14 | Like Hector 's dolphin , the vaquita is incidentally caught in a gill-net fishery , and is unable to replace the losses through increased rates of reproduction . |
| 15 | In cancer , however , the immune response can be suppressed and the body is unable to generate the antibodies it needs to fight the disease . |
| 16 | Poulantzas recognises this , but is unable to put the principle to work . |
| 17 | The company is unable to sub-let the building . |
| 18 | The ruck — ball on the ground — attracts the same experimental variation except when the referee is unable to determine the team responsible . |
| 19 | ‘ The same will apply to a ruck if the ball becomes unplayable except when the referee is unable to determine the team responsible . |
| 20 | ( b ) That there is no satisfactory address for serving the summons either because he will not give an address , or it is doubtful if he will remain at the address long enough to accept service of the summons or is unable to furnish the name of anyone who would accept service on his behalf , e.g. social worker . |
| 21 | Above a critical concentration , convection is unable to keep the particles suspended , so the particles settle , leaving behind a layer of convecting fluid virtually free of particles . |
| 22 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 23 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 24 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 25 | The consequence to which a statutory demand leads if not complied with is a presumption that the debtor is unable to pay the debt in question . |
| 26 | Policyholder sues friend and the court awards damages to Policyholder , but friend has no insurance in force and is unable to pay the award . |
| 27 | Assuming that the seller had retained title to the goods , the seller must refund the £1,000 unless the seller is unable to re-sell the goods elsewhere for at least £2,000 . |
| 28 | A structural approach is rejected on the basis that it is unable to capture the creativity of language . |
| 29 | RJ2.2.5 , a mutant derived from the human B-lymphoma cell , Raji , is unable to express the MHC class II genes because of a recessive transcriptional defect attributed to the lack of an activator function . |
| 30 | If the Tate is unable to buy the works of young British artists , as it should , its collections will be enormously deficient . |