Example sentences of "[that] it is capable [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mortal means both that the snake is mortal , will have a life and then die , and also that it is capable of dealing a mortal blow , of killing . |
| 2 | It is an advantage of the analysis offered in the last chapter that it is capable of accounting for authority over a group on the basis of authority relations between individuals . |
| 3 | What distinguishes W. from them , and what with all respect I do not think that Thorpe J. took sufficiently into account ( perhaps because the point did not emerge as clearly before him as it did before us ) , is that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 4 | At the hearing before us it was conceded , in answer to a question put by the court , that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 5 | Yet , given the opportunity and some imaginative presentation , the urban population has shown that it is capable of responding , judging by the numbers who take an interest at county shows or who turn up at the pitifully few farms which organize public open days . |
| 6 | Let us take two parallel conducting plates in a vacuum , one of them endowed with the property that it is capable of emitting electrons . |