Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] of [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should be looking for a machine capable of being upgraded to 16Mb , preferably to 32Mb . |
| 2 | I got a bit tired of being treated like Dresden china . ’ |
| 3 | If so , is the excision of the unenforceable part capable of being achieved without other addition or modification ? |
| 4 | The Board instructed their clerk to communicate with the governors of the infirmary on the matter , and in his reply a week later , the house surgeon there ( who acted as hospital secretary ) said that he had thought the case capable of being treated as an out-patient . |
| 5 | He suffered the severest form of tetraplegia short of being condemned to life on a ventilator. — PA |
| 6 | A major requirement of a religion then , must be that , above all , it shall be capable of a simplified , but undistorted interpretation capable of being taught to the very young in such a way that it will instil in them the stirrings of what will become their consciences , that is , they will harbour a subconscious awareness of the fundamental nature of right and wrong as these are applied to those areas of human aspirations where they are beyond dispute . |
| 7 | There is yet another vast area of human experience wherein the need to condense many vague and widely varied beliefs and hopes into a single credible interpretation capable of being incorporated into a definition of ‘ god ’ , which is of immeasurable importance . |
| 8 | It is true that rule-breaking is a national pastime in a country like Italy ; but that is a problem which is no doubt capable of being resolved by a European government with sufficient teeth . |
| 9 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |