Example sentences of "[be] capable [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gave it to them straight : competing with the best ai n't good enough when you 're capable of being the best . ’ |
| 2 | She 'll be a far better mother than you 're capable of being . ’ |
| 3 | The first trend is the movement within the philosophy of religion away from the Cartesian view that if God existed some proof of His existence must be capable of being set out , in the way that Descartes himself attempted to set it out . |
| 4 | The results should be capable of being used formatively and to indicate any particular need for support for the child , or for more specific diagnostic assessment . |
| 5 | So far as confession evidence is concerned , the old law emphasized that , to be capable of being entered in evidence , a confession had to be obtained ‘ voluntarily ’ . |
| 6 | In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn . |
| 7 | The latter , which may be a plasmid ( extrachromosomal molecules of DNA that exist in many bacteria ) or a phage ( normally a bacterial virus ) , must be capable of being recognised by the host in order for replication to occur . |
| 8 | Finally , the simulation approach and associated error models should be capable of being incorporated into standard GIS software . |
| 9 | It must also be capable of being adsorbed , that is the molecules must be attracted onto the sensitive surface of the olfactory receptors . |
| 10 | The curtain must be capable of being drawn across and back — no matter how bad the winter , you will be answering the door occasionally ! |
| 11 | The House of Commons ( Clergy Disqualification ) Act 1801 provides that ‘ no person having been ordained to the office of priest or deacon , or being a minister of the Church of Scotland , is or shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons ’ whilst s.9 of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 states that ‘ No person in holy orders in the Church of Rome shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons ’ . |
| 12 | The House of Commons ( Clergy Disqualification ) Act 1801 provides that ‘ no person having been ordained to the office of priest or deacon , or being a minister of the Church of Scotland , is or shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons ’ whilst s.9 of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 states that ‘ No person in holy orders in the Church of Rome shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a Member of the House of Commons ’ . |
| 13 | The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) . |
| 14 | The premises must be capable of being let . |
| 15 | Any recording system must be capable of being repeated in exactly the same form on future dates . |
| 16 | It must be capable of being repeated at some later date . |
| 17 | Rewards chosen must be capable of being delivered immediately the CB is produced . |
| 18 | Finally , are there any short-term strategies which may be capable of being pursued within the context of our existing institutional arrangements ? |
| 19 | The house which in everyday discourse the wife and husband regarded as ‘ theirs ’ turned out in legal discourse to be capable of being theirs in many different ways . |
| 20 | Unlike Hegel , Marx believed that under advanced communism everybody would be capable of being multi-faceted , thoroughly rounded individuals , realizing their essence through creative labour . |
| 21 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 22 | But interpreting the words of a statute is often not a simple matter , and an ouster clause will often be capable of being given more than one meaning . |
| 23 | If we could calculate accurately the consequential change in the electron 's momentum then we could allow for the effects of the collision and our knowledge would still be capable of being made exact . |
| 24 | In other words , any three such elements in a hierarchy must be capable of being arranged to form a continuous chain : |
| 25 | To be differentiable , a relation must be capable of being directed along mutually exclusive pathways in an indefinite number of successive stages . |
| 26 | All I am suggesting is that the balancing exercise should be capable of being performed . |
| 27 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 28 | Where Her Majesty 's Government is dealing with the foreign government on a normal government to government basis as the government of the relevant foreign state , it is unlikely in the extreme that the inference that the foreign government is the government of that state will be capable of being rebutted and questions of public policy and considerations of the interrelationship of the judicial and executive arms of government may be paramount : see The Arantzazu Mendi [ 1939 ] A.C. 256 , 264 and Gur Corporation v. Trust Bank of Africa Ltd. [ 1987 ] Q.B . |
| 29 | Since neither House can by its own declaration create a new privilege , privilege may be considered to be capable of being ascertained and thus judicially known to the courts . |
| 30 | ‘ in situations like the present the defendants ‘ are ’ the company in the sense that any offences committed by them in relation to the affairs of the company would be capable of being treated as offences committed by the company itself . |