Sentence examples for not able to lay from inspiring English sources

Swiss females paired with Italian males were not able to lay eggs until late August, likely because Italian males aestivated and thus would not mate during the summer.

A severe exacerbation was characterized by dyspnoea at rest, inability to speak in a full sentence, not able to lay flat, respiratory frequency above thirty breaths per minute, heart rate above one hundred twenty beats per minute and the use of accessory respiratory muscles.

(Note: if Player 2 is not able to lay down any other card without exceeding 31, and Player 1 has the fourth seven, he can lay it down and earn the 12 points).. Sequences also score points.

Some patients with bulky advanced lung cancer are not able to lie down because of dyspnea.

A 30-year-old woman at 40 weeks' gestation complained of breathlessness and cough, and she was not able to lie supine because of respiratory distress.

It's the UK's smallest shrew and one of the smallest mammals in the world, with adults weighing in at around five grams – that's about as much as a 20 pence piece. Pygmy shrews are so small that they aren't able to lay down enough fat reserves to allow them to hibernate and so are forced to remain active throughout the winter.

Imagine not being able to retrieve them, or not being able to lay down new ones.

It added that some customers will, on receiving their renewal letter, dig out last year's documents in order to remind themselves how much they paid, but others will not get around to doing this or may not be able to lay their hands on the correspondence.

Until now, the government has not been able to lay off civil servants, whose employment rights are in effect constitutionally guaranteed.

Nothing angers Mr Cameron more than being accused of being the candidate of the rich, but he has not been able to lay the accusation to rest.

Equally, you may not be able to lay the blame squarely at your ex.