1.   A glitch in the customer-service software left customers unable to get through to help lines.

2.   Others found that the sheer workload of the course left them unable to develop outside interests, such as reading or the theatre.

3.   People who left school unable to read were often dismissed as lazy.

4.   The surgery left her unable to walk for nearly three months.

5.   This left them unable to pay some independent power generators, so they had to shut down.

6.   The result was a severely sprained left ankle which left me unable to walk.

7.   Take all violence out of television drama and you disconnect it from reality, leaving it unable to portray anything deeper than its own bonds.

8.   And both countries are prisoners of oratory that has left them unable to make any conciliatory gesture toward the other.

9.   And tendinitis in his left foot and ankle left him unable to practice between matches for most of a tournament.

10.   As consumers look for alternatives as replacement tires, other manufacturers find that this windfall of sales has left them unable to respond to the unexpected demand.