Example sentences of "be unable [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel very uncomfortable therefore , to sit in a room full of members , sitting here proposing to add five percent to the limit for members allowances , simply because we 've been unable to control our own behaviour , and to come in within that , I think it 's a very poor example , and it 's an example that I 'm not prepared to set . |
| 2 | Yet it scorched him that he had been unable to give her that chance himself . |
| 3 | ‘ Mummy , why do n't I look like Paula ? ’ she had asked , staring wretchedly at her five-year-old reflection in the mirror , but her mother , herself slightly bemused by the young beauty she had produced , had been unable to give her any satisfactory answer . |
| 4 | We have been unable to discover what all this apparatus is for and wondered if you might be able to shed some light on the matter ? |
| 5 | Lucy had been unable to disguise her own amusement . |
| 6 | Some register entries are so rudimentary that they are unable to support anything more than a basic inventory . |
| 7 | — GLENDALE Social Club doorman Brian Smith well known for his ghosthunting activities is also an expert gardener and is offering his services to disabled people and pensioners in Houghton , who are unable to do their own gardening . |
| 8 | The procedure of egg donation , or of proembryo donation , could help some women to bear a child even though they are unable to produce their own eggs , or are bearers of a genetically transmissible disease . |
| 9 | I wonder what you will say in answer to this letter ; I shall await your reply with some anxiety , for if our letters go into the waste paper basket we shall be unable to continue our many services for the benefit of those who are blind . |
| 10 | In his weakened state he is unable to control his own metaphors , to keep the various terminologies he deploys distinct . |
| 11 | Breach of the provisions of the Act involves the commission of an offence punishable by fine and may even in certain circumstances disqualify the firm from bringing proceedings to enforce its contractual rights — where by reason of the breach the defendant is unable to pursue his own claims against the firm or has otherwise suffered financial loss and the court does not consider that justice and equity require that the firm 's action should be allowed to proceed . |
| 12 | But has anything else that has changed in those twenty-five years — or , for that matter , in the years since abolition — been such that it ought to influence the mind of a Member who is unable to convince himself that capital punishment deters ? |
| 13 | Fostering may be used during hysterectomy re-derivation and in situations where the natural mother is unable to rear her own litter due to her own health , genetic defects , or because the litter is too small to maintain lactation . |
| 14 | John Coffin was no exception ; a clever and practical man , he was unable to manage his own electric oven . |
| 15 | You may wonder why it is reported that He seemed to resent them , which may suggest that he was unable to express his own resentment , which may limit your range of potential interpretations of the expression He . |
| 16 | The bleeding into his pharynx was so massive that he was unable to maintain his own airway while lying supine . |
| 17 | She was not very much surprised to see him on his feet and opening the door , but when he swayed and put a hand on the wall to steady himself she was unable to prevent her own hand going out towards him . |