Example sentences of "[being] capable of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may be a grandfather who has survived heart surgery and likes nothing better than spending time with his family but , like a retired gunslinger who can only be pushed so far , he gives the impression of still being capable of strapping on a Colt 45 and facing up to a gaggle of tobacco-stained desperadoes . |
| 2 | Consent , in other words , differs from promises by being capable of investing the consentor with rights . |
| 3 | This means being capable of thinking quantitatively and being relatively happy at using figures in a variety of ways in order to : |
| 4 | I would see this approach as being capable of useful application in other areas , e.g. Health Education or Development Studies . |
| 5 | It is fairly easy to envisage the value of human acts as being capable of definitions falling on , above or below a neutral line between good and evil . |
| 6 | This applies to both the concrete and abstract contributions , but it must be taken to imply that all goodness is to be regarded as being capable of reduction to a single mode , created in units . |
| 7 | Wingel is a thixotropic gel medium suitable as a glaze medium as well as being capable of moderate impasto . |
| 8 | She felt utterly trapped in her small , cramped frog 's body , her knees felt bent in the wrong place and her arms were too short , and it was quite terrifying trying to speak and only being capable of a hoarse croaking sound . |
| 9 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 10 | They are also regarded as being capable of causing illness or even death to get their way . |
| 11 | The possibility of reason-giving , of being capable of the awareness that one 's life was one way , that it is now different , and that futility is the result , involves , as I have contended at length , the possibility of language . |
| 12 | Yet the notion of Humperdinck being capable of Strauss 's range is of course unthinkable : at the time he conducted the première of Hänsel und Gretel , in December 1893 , Strauss had written most of his tone-poems and was at work on his own first opera , Guntram . |
| 13 | That said , it is more or less generally accepted that TV is the most powerful medium available , being capable of building awareness and understanding of a product 's advertising more broadly and faster than other media . |
| 14 | I see education as far more than just training you to go out and do a job , and I think the whole learning process , whatever you 're learning , matures you into being capable of taking responsibilities and learning other things , and I think arts subjects do that just as well as science subjects . |
| 15 | At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns . |
| 16 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 , but it seems to me that the court regarded the powers as being capable of legitimate exercise after charge , but only if ( a ) the questions put were limited to those permitted by what are now the concluding words of what is now paragraph 16.5 of Code C , and ( b ) they were preceded by a caution . |
| 17 | Precise definition of what is and is not a legitimate purpose is probably not possible , but the fact that we live in a competitive or acquisitive society has led English law , for better or worse , to adopt the test of self-interest or selfishness as being capable of justifying the deliberate doing of lawful acts which inflict harm . |
| 18 | Finally , of course , it is important that the product actually achieves both what you set out to do and while being capable of expansion to meet future requirements . |
| 19 | On the one hand , the public sector institutions were thought of as being capable of maintaining the subject-specific national peer review system for themselves . |
| 20 | Being capable of crisis management . |
| 21 | Being capable of risking showing one 's own personal vulnerability while still maintaining professional standards . |
| 22 | And , potentially , the only human being capable of becoming Yggdrasil . |
| 23 | There is another question which arises from all this training ; are the Banks ceasing to look upon staff as being capable of individual reaction to whatever difficulty they encounter ? |
| 24 | Several factors have recently been identified as being capable of influencing the performance of H pylori serological tests : these include the patients ' age , histological findings , H pylori antigens , and , as suggested by this study , NSAID intake . |
| 25 | PP : I really did n't think of myself as being capable Of writing a libretto . |
| 26 | Strongyloides is unique among the nematodes of veterinary importance being capable of both parasitic and free-living reproductive cycles . |