Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] able [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backwash is reduced in energy by the percolation of water into the shingle , so that the backwash is not necessarily able to return the material carried forward by the swash in spite of the fact that it is combined with the effect of gravity , whereas the swash is acting against gravity . |
| 2 | The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised . |
| 3 | The low RF interference and low component count claims are usually made because the Cuk topology is not only able to accommodate the input and output filter chokes on the same magnetic core as the transformer , but it can also reduce the input and output ripple currents to very low levels . |
| 4 | The family , however , is not sufficiently able to sustain the private identities of people in modern cities or suburbs , and other institutional agencies are needed to support , create , sustain and modify identity . |
| 5 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 6 | Even under Anne , when the ministry of the day never did lose a General Election , it was not always able to get the type of Parliament it wanted . |
| 7 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 8 | Since spermatozoa in ejaculated semen are not yet able to penetrate the egg , the spermatozoa have to undergo careful treatment in the laboratory to achieve the maturation which normally occurs in the female reproductive tract . |
| 9 | But even though justification by hindsight is easier than discovery , some people are still not rationally able to see the truth of the Gospels for themselves ; even though the Bible does point the way to moral knowledge , most people ‘ can not know , and therefore they must believe ’ . |
| 10 | Lack of funds in the past meant that I was n't always able to see the job through . ’ |
| 11 | I heard the motor but I was n't even able to get the number . " |