Example sentences of "be capable of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In five years a machine is counted as nothing in the balance sheet , but people count and age makes them more experienced , gives them better judgement — if they 're capable of learning , which most people are . |
| 2 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 3 | She could tell that he had just as swiftly regretted it , for he quickly added , ‘ I mean , between us , surely , we 're capable of raising a child . |
| 4 | ‘ I gave it to them straight : competing with the best ai n't good enough when you 're capable of being the best . ’ |
| 5 | The closer you work with people , the more you can assess what they 're capable of . ’ |
| 6 | They 're capable of it too , as their subtle debut single , ‘ Teknologi ’ , here twice in heavily remixed form , made clear . |
| 7 | the , the , the implication is always erm that you 've got to make some sort of choice between do we get the social change first , which gives rise to a different kind of people , better people , or do we first of all change the people so that they 're capable of making a better world and of course it 's a catch twenty two , is n't it ? |
| 8 | It said this is what we 're capable of doing . |
| 9 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 10 | You 've seen some of the men in here ; you know what they 're capable of . |
| 11 | Yeah , I mean I The important thing is I think the children do recognize the differences , not that they do n't notice the differences , because they 're Like you say they 're capable of using the other if it if it suits them . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think you 're capable of any depravity … ’ |
| 13 | You must be seriously crazy if you 're capable of believing a thing like that . ’ |
| 14 | So far , alas , you have failed to deliver , but I know you 're capable of producing the designs that can turn G.W. Fashions ’ fortunes around . ’ |
| 15 | After that maybe , just maybe , you can start proving to me you do possess some measure of professionalism — although to be honest , ’ he added caustically , ‘ I 'm finding it hard to believe you 're capable of distinguishing between a weed and an orchid at the moment , or even digging a garden , let alone ever designing one . ’ |
| 16 | Our statistics show that we consume all that we 're capable of producing , yet we 're investing less and less in new capacity to produce . |
| 17 | But can I just answer that because hopefully we do we do try to listen and we try to give you what information you 're capable of taking at the time . |
| 18 | I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning . |
| 19 | She 'll be a far better mother than you 're capable of being . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Because I 've learned from bitter experience precisely what you 're capable of . |
| 21 | Do n't forget that I know exactly what you 're capable of ! ’ |
| 22 | But I think we 've got a good chance of getting into the play-offs and we 're capable of beating anyone on our day . |
| 23 | To decide for yourself what they 're capable of . |
| 24 | Fine er what we 're , what we 're saying to you basically is , right , and , and another thing you 're doing is proving that you 're capable of doing it , now if I was training you from cold , right , and you had n't done it |
| 25 | right , now if you can increase your number of closes that you know them and you 're capable of using , and if you can increase your number of key lines that you , do you follow me |
| 26 | Well that 's , that 's fine you 've got to start with the easy ones and at your age you would n't , you would n't normally be doing them this hard at all , this is for sixteen year olds who are doing their , their plot paper on G C S E maths so you expect to find , oh hang on this is a bit hard there 's a bit of work in this , but I think you 're capable of doing it . |
| 27 | At the time you enter a Deed of Covenant , the covenant should be capable of lasting for more than 3 years , and there should be the intention by you that it does so . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements . |
| 30 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |