Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] capable of [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Obviously the media type must be capable of being supported by the unit . |
| 3 | Finally , the simulation approach and associated error models should be capable of being incorporated into standard GIS software . |
| 4 | All I am suggesting is that the balancing exercise should be capable of being performed . |
| 5 | Polar plants must be capable of being frozen for several months each year , and to undergo repeated freeze-thaw cycles throughout the growing season , even at the height of summer . |
| 6 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 7 | The curtain must be capable of being drawn across and back — no matter how bad the winter , you will be answering the door occasionally ! |
| 8 | Less obviously , a good product will be capable of being handled efficiently by every department in the company that makes contact with it , however slightly . |
| 9 | The development should be capable of being assimilated into the natural environment . |
| 10 | If the use of the data changes , then its organisation should be capable of being changed without the users being aware of it ( known as physical data independence ) , apart , that is , from the gains in speed . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The approach must be capable of being used routinely . |
| 13 | In other words , any three such elements in a hierarchy must be capable of being arranged to form a continuous chain : |
| 14 | Another requirement for the grant of a patent is that the invention must have an industrial application but this is widely defined by section 4 of the Patents Act 1977 which states that the invention must be capable of being made or used in any kind of industry , including agriculture . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To be differentiable , a relation must be capable of being directed along mutually exclusive pathways in an indefinite number of successive stages . |
| 17 | The process of checking for unnecessary points on a digitized line should be capable of being performed within the GIS . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Any recording system must be capable of being repeated in exactly the same form on future dates . |
| 20 | The premises must be capable of being let . |
| 21 | Each location must be capable of being in one of a discrete number of states . |
| 22 | I suspect the amount of travel might be capable of being reduced . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The separate polygons showing the hydrological , biological and water quality parameters of Lake Tahoe should be capable of being overlaid . |