Example sentences of "[been] unable [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | provided that a member or a beneficial owner of a share shall only be required to reimburse the Society to the extent that the Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the recognised body or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator or any such person . |
| 2 | but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . |
| 3 | but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . |
| 4 | ALONG with six million other householders , I 've been unable to use a hosepipe for more than two years because of a drought order . |
| 5 | The telecommunications industry says it is not aware of a single instance in which the FBI has been unable to tap a line because of the widespread new technology … |
| 6 | When the less-than-ideal situation arises , however , and the magistrates find themselves unable to agree it appears that justices clerks have also been unable to reach a verdict on the correct interpretation of section 9(2) of the 1980 Act . |
| 7 | Although he was acquitted on one count of assault and another of filing a false police report , the jury had been unable to reach a decision on the charge that Powell had abused his authority through the use of excessive force . |
| 8 | The jury , which had begun deliberating on Aug. 20 , had been unable to reach a decision on any of the nine criminal charges against him . |
| 9 | ‘ — we have been unable to fill the position . |
| 10 | The Palace had been unable to fill the outside-left berth adequately after George Clarke 's long reign had come to an end , but there was no doubt in any supporter 's minds that a worthy successor had at last been found when Bob Bigg made his Palace debut . |
| 11 | For why , having seen the leaflet , had he been unable to dismiss the idea ? |
| 12 | The paper quotes Intel 's Dave House saying that the part will initially appear in the promised 66MHz version and a cheaper 60MHz version — Siemens AG is said to have been unable to drive the chip faster than 40MHz with cooling before it burned up . |
| 13 | After some weeks , Paisley reported that he had been unable to persuade the speaker of the House of Commons to allow the Black case to be raised in an adjournment debate and that he was pessimistic of having it raised in Parliament in any other form . |
| 14 | In spite of the best efforts of the health service , we had been unable to persuade the public that by far the bigger danger was of children not being inoculated . |
| 15 | The Owens have been unable to persuade the Department of Transport to buy their property , though it has bought out some of their neigbours . |
| 16 | This had been forthcoming , but the Executive Council of the Shipping Federation had been unable to entertain the proposal from an organisation to which , it claimed , not more than one per cent of seamen belonged . |
| 17 | A few years ago Jo would have been unable to resist a put-down , but the Hollywood brat had grown up and knew how and when to be gracious . |
| 18 | Moreover , federal states , whether they are based on Christian Democratic ‘ subsidiarity ’ theories or on Anglo-Saxon separation of power theories , have been unable to resist the tendency to centralise , from which all states suffer . |
| 19 | Numerous journalists , however , have been unable to resist the temptation to compare this current real life role with one of his old screen parts the Thirties movie mogul Monroe Stahr in The Last Tycoon , the film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's last , unfinished novel . |
| 20 | He 'd seen the face of Hapexamendios Himself , and half-crazed by the sight had been unable to resist the summons , and the binding , when it came . |
| 21 | He had murmured some excuse but had been unable to refuse an invitation to supper at the vicarage during the coming week . |
| 22 | For the past twenty-four hours , she had swallowed none of her medication , although she had been unable to refuse an injection . |
| 23 | One of the three members had been unable to attend the meeting at which these appeals were heard and a decision made on all the appeals . |
| 24 | As Kay Evans was unable to be with us during Notices June Bascombe presented their certificates to the three teachers who qualified in 1982 who had been unable to attend the training day in June . |
| 25 | Chief Insp Malcolm Fordy confirmed that Alan Jackson , of The Bank , had been accused of a firearms offence , but police had been unable to serve a summons on him . |
| 26 | Ballesteros worries about such heavy defeats because he finds it incomprehensible that he has been unable to repel the thrusts of those opponents . |
| 27 | ( 11 ) Last week he had been unable to control the class . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been unable to give a name to Graham 's condition because we 're mystified by it , ’ he says . |
| 29 | But Mr Yeltsin himself has been unable to give the miners public support because their strike threatens Russia 's stubborn attempts to plough its lonely furrow of economic reform . |
| 30 | There is an assumption behind all this that size does matter , which seems to be belied by the fact that IBM 's enormous $60,000m a year bulk has been unable to save the company — but IBM 's problems all arise from the fact that the company 's business is so hopelessly slewed to one sector of the market , with products that fewer and fewer people are going to be happy to own . |