Example sentences of "[noun sg] must be capable [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BIOS and the PC must be capable of shadowing — that is copying the contents of slow ROM , such as the BIOS or VGA BIOS , into faster RAM , thus speeding up the system . |
| 2 | Any extinguishing agent which develops its effects in the same direction must be capable of overtaking the flame front if it is to have an acceptable limiting influence on potential damage . |
| 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 | Such equipment must be capable of automatic function in the very critical period between the outbreak of fire and the arrival of the fire brigade and in the extreme case under discussion should consist of a zoned in-rack sprinkler system and a zoned system of roof ventilation , both operating on sensitive detection devices and tailor made for the individual risk they protect . |
| 5 | Obviously the media type must be capable of being supported by the unit . |
| 6 | Nobody would dream of trying to lubricate an engine with water , so the water-based slipperiness of snow and ice must be capable of vast improvement . |
| 7 | This led S. Ohno at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York to the rather unlikely conclusion that the mammalian ovary must be capable of inducing oestrus cycles even in the complete absence of eggs . |
| 8 | Similarly , James Bryce , chairman of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education , also looked on sectional interests as a danger to the common good because ‘ civilized societies ’ , he said , were progressing towards popular government and , given this direction , ‘ each member of a free community must be capable of citizenship ’ which involved ‘ Intelligence , Self-Control , Conscience ’ . |
| 9 | The curtain must be capable of being drawn across and back — no matter how bad the winter , you will be answering the door occasionally ! |
| 10 | The management of an organisation must be capable of reconciling differences and integrating the work of all employees towards a common aim . |
| 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 | In tentatively proposing such a theory I take it that any acceptable political or moral theory must be capable of satisfying the following demands . |
| 13 | Any computer system used for Landsat data processing must be capable of displaying images , preferably in colour . |
| 14 | The approach must be capable of being used routinely . |
| 15 | In other words , any three such elements in a hierarchy must be capable of being arranged to form a continuous chain : |
| 16 | Greenfield 's scale must be capable of distinguishing such local claims from ‘ true ’ evidence of detachment . |
| 17 | There are two basic criteria : firstly an invention must be based on a wholly new idea or involve an ‘ inventive step ’ ; secondly an invention must be capable of industrial ( including agricultural , etc. ) application . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ayer begins , then , by arguing that anyone claiming to make a factual statement must be capable of saying what observations would count towards establishing the truth or falsity of that statement . |
| 20 | To be differentiable , a relation must be capable of being directed along mutually exclusive pathways in an indefinite number of successive stages . |
| 21 | And with the large capital invetment involved , the customer depends on the fact that any new model must be capable of taking on the task in hand without difficulty — there is no room for mere gimmicks . |
| 22 | All effective forms of organization must be capable of resolving perennial problems which beset any administratively co-ordinated , recurrent ad routine activities that occur between transacting agencies . |
| 23 | This , therefore , demands that the purchaser and supplier of a system must be capable of working in partnership , and that the supplier has specialist skills in all areas of implementation of systems to assist the customer over this hurdle , ’ Mobbs says . |
| 24 | Third , the system must be capable of survival . |
| 25 | Any recording system must be capable of being repeated in exactly the same form on future dates . |
| 26 | The system must be capable of identifying any new entries or sense sections which have been incorporated into the dictionary text . |
| 27 | The system must be capable of ‘ unattended operation ’ . |
| 28 | The software management system must be capable of supporting many different approaches to overall software management schemes . |
| 29 | The system must be capable of automatically handling the organisation and upkeep of large amounts of interrelated information , generated by modern software techniques . |
| 30 | A teaching unit must be capable of expressing the teacher 's , possibly shifting , aims — just as a spade expresses the gardener 's . |