Example sentences of "[been] unable [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Y'know that somehow um , perhaps rather like the psychoanalytic notion of repression , something like that , somehow um er they 've been unable to remember for a number of years , possibly even decades , and er something triggers it . |
| 2 | Most remarkable of all , Karl , Barth , having been unable to serve as an observer , later published his reflections ( 1967 , 1969 ) , asking himself such questions as ‘ How would things look if Rome ( without ceasing to be Rome ) were one day simply to overtake us and place us in the shadows , so far as the renewing of the church through the Word and Spirit of the gospel is concerned ? ’ |
| 3 | Hitherto the republics and provinces had been unable to agree on a budget and international financial institutions had accordingly blocked credits . |
| 4 | Despite deep concern over the possibility of a major nuclear accident in the former Soviet republics or Eastern Europe , Western governments have been unable to agree on a comprehensive aid package to improve safety standards [ see also ED65/66 ] . |
| 5 | East and West Germany had been unable to agree on the issue of abortion before unification in 1990 . |
| 6 | After two such incidents in Melbourne in 1987 the federal government had banned the importation of semi-automatic weapons , but the states had been unable to agree upon a common strategy for tightening the laws relating to such weapons already in circulation . |
| 7 | Venetiaan , a former Education Minister , received 645 votes from the 817-member United People 's Assembly summoned by the National Assembly , which in two ballots had been unable to decide on a president . |
| 8 | I have argued that antiracism has been unable to deal with the new forms in which racism has developed . |
| 9 | In addition , the year-long political deadlock had itself become an election issue because the weak coalitions formed after the previous elections had been unable to deal with the economic crisis and the growth of urban terrorism . |
| 10 | The Constitutional Court had been unable to rule on the code , as the version adopted at the Congress had since been altered . |
| 11 | The ASH stand at the Green Show attracted a lot of other interest too , and our staff would have been unable to cope without the tremendous effort made by West Midlands ASH volunteers . |
| 12 | Bt strains have traditionally been classified by serotyping , but this system has been unable to cope with the vast number of new strains discovered recently . |
| 13 | As Brian Davis points out , the new shed was necessary , as the main mill buildings were now over a century old , and would almost certainly have been unable to cope with the additional weight and vibration from the looms . |
| 14 | As a child he had been unable to cope with the passions around him ; he had hidden himself away in books , consoling himself with golden reveries . |
| 15 | Thirteen would have been unable to cope with the elimination regimen for social reasons or because of poor understanding , eight had tight small intestinal strictures , and eight were on high dose steroids ( both of which would have made the results difficult to interpret ) , four refused , two were treated for postoperative fistulas , two were pregnant , and one was treated for extensive pyoderma gangrenosum and had no gastrointestinal symptoms . |
| 16 | We pray for those from the church family who have been unable to join in the services of thanksgiving today . |
| 17 | As people evaluate and celebrate the successes of their actions , they will identify what they 've gained and what they have been unable to attain through the particular action . |
| 18 | Some who were interested might have been unable to think of a method . |
| 19 | Kay then presented certificates and badges to those new teachers who had been unable to get to the June meeting . |
| 20 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 21 | This afternoon , though , he had been unable to concentrate on the case he was preparing . |
| 22 | The EEC does offer grants to academics for research on approved projects ; but so far it has been unable to help with the major problems of the academic researchers , such as shortage of jobs , lack of mobility of researchers and declining funds for research . |
| 23 | To achieve a reduction , however , the burden of proof rests upon the buyer to show that the seller would have been unable to comply with the essential terms of the contract if it had not been terminated , Gill & Duffus v. Berger & Co. ( 1984 H.L. ) . |
| 24 | In 1976 , 10 per cent of US married couples with wives aged 15–44 had been unable to conceive after a year . |
| 25 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |