Example sentences of "[that] is capable [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To correct erosion damage we built paths to concentrate pressure on a thin line that is capable of taking it . |
| 2 | What makes them interesting is the interplay between depressed singer and band that is capable of creating subtle guitar and synth textures , providing languid settings for a piece like Free , then pushing into country , or a blues riff ( on Get Out Of My Mirror ) , and proves that it can really stretch out when given a chance , as at the end of New Day Dawning . |
| 3 | Consequently , when a handful of practitioners came together in 1979 , it did so with a single guiding principle : ‘ the real measure of development is the ability of a people to build its own comprehensive and complimentary and independent infrastructure that is capable of dealing with its own problems , needs and aspirations . ’ |
| 4 | An ‘ idea-meme ’ might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another . |
| 5 | Consider a rebel stretch of human DNA that is capable of snipping itself out of its chromosome , floating freely in the cell , perhaps multiplying itself up into many copies , and then splicing itself into another chromosome . |
| 6 | The sampler uses a pneumatic dosing system that is capable of a suction height of 8m , and the sampler is capable of taking probes form sewage plants , rivers , sewers and factory effluent with sample volumes ranging from 20 to 330 ml . |
| 7 | Once it is understood that the symptoms of disease are actually a good thing in that they are the highly characteristic outward indication of the healing and balancing process that is going on inside each individual person , then to give a medicine that is capable of mimicking and bringing about that same process suddenly seems to be a good idea ; both totally reasonable and logical . |
| 8 | It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms . |
| 9 | This provides a rudder that is capable of assisting in balancing and locomotion , but has no break-points for further ‘ tail-dropping ’ . |
| 10 | Neutrophils : a variety of white blood cell that is capable of ingesting and killing bacteria and providing an important defence against infection . |
| 11 | Undoubtedly behaviourism diverted people from thinking about fundamental issues , like the design of a brain that is capable of generating actions rather than reactions . |
| 12 | There are transitional thinkers — those who soon make the conceptual transition from the concrete to the more abstract form of the problem — one that is capable of being solved by a combination of multiplication and addition . |
| 13 | The problem with this reasoning is that even if we accept the narrow definition of freedom on which it relies , a system of private property , and in particular private ownership of productive assets , is not the only property system that is capable of bringing about the required dispersal of control over material goods . |
| 14 | For instance , in the law of contract the question , ‘ What is the difference between void and voidable contracts ? ’ can be accurately answered by saying that a void contract is an apparent contract that is in truth no contract at all , while a voidable contract is a contract that is capable of being avoided at the option of one party . |
| 15 | But we can at least aim at a code that is capable of being understood by a person of average intelligence and of being understood and applied from the four corners of the document that he is directed to consult . |
| 16 | There 's also , of course , an output for a pair of stereo speakers that is capable of providing 4 watts per channel and a joystick interface . |
| 17 | The research aims to develop a computer-based tool that is capable of |
| 18 | He pointed at Mr Major and demanded : ‘ I do not know how you can sit there as Prime Minister of a Government that is capable of deceit on such a scale . |
| 19 | right the more phone 's used is somebody that is capable of making |