Example sentences of "[prep] they [be] capable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them are capable of organising their lives with dignity but others fall into football 's in-built poverty trap . |
| 2 | said the encyclical Immortale Dei ( 1885 ) , ‘ in as much as none of them contains anything contrary to Catholic doctrine , and all of them are capable , if wisely and justly managed , of ensuring the welfare of the State . ’ |
| 3 | Some of them are capable and sensible drivers , but as the records show there are those who not only put their own lives at risk , but that of others as well . |
| 4 | However , when observed over long periods , many species are found to be generalist in that individuals of them are capable of taking advantage of ‘ specialist ’ interactions at any one time : the ‘ anachronisms ’ show this , as do the generalized pollinators on islands where plants have ‘ left their pollinators behind ’ , e.g. a cetoniid beetle , Mauseolopsis aldabrensis , visits 58% of all flowering species , native or introduced , of all colours and morphology , on the coral atoll of Aldabra off the African coast , but it shows a remarkably high degree of constancy in its foraging flights . |
| 5 | Some of them are capable , if they live in sheltered accommodation or with a family , of looking after themselves . |
| 6 | Neither of them was capable of searching out any fairy-tale kink in the more drab theories of evolution which might explain how it is that a frog taken ( however reluctantly ) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince . |