Example sentences of "capable [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 2 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 3 | The arbitrary implications of undefinable rights are particularly evident where the right claimed is by its nature not capable of being satisfied by any degree of compulsion exercised within the relevant society . |
| 4 | The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence . |
| 5 | For the DPP Miss Goddard said that mere delay is not capable of being an abuse of the process unless the delay is so great that what is sought by the Crown is no longer the vindication of justice but amounts to oppression or harassment of a defendant . |
| 6 | It can still be said , he suggests , ‘ that there are some things capable of being known , though they are still not ones that can be known with an Aristotelian knowledge , but only experientially , or according to appearances ’ . |
| 7 | But despite the transitional talk of ‘ experimental knowledge ’ , Locke insists that ‘ natural philosophy is not capable of being made a science ’ . |
| 8 | Generally speaking , we shall include under the notion of a man 's property in its widest sense all rights which are capable of being transferred to others , of being made available for payment of his debts , or of passing to his representatives on his death . |
| 9 | Working with networks ought to be a fundamental social work skill capable of being exercised almost regardless of organizational characteristics . |
| 10 | This makes it highly soluble and capable of being absorbed by the body . |
| 11 | Centralisation by itself is not the problem : despite what the federalists say , ‘ centralised ’ states such as Britain are perfectly capable of being sensitive to the needs of the regions . |
| 12 | Not all sponges contain hard parts capable of being fossilized . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Beyond that , she had shown that women were capable of being more than simpering wallflowers , or unpaid housekeepers . |
| 15 | The results should be capable of being used formatively and to indicate any particular need for support for the child , or for more specific diagnostic assessment . |
| 16 | While it is undeniable that Robbe-Grillet'– early novels are indeed capable of being read as essentially modernist texts whose narrative strategics consist in the representation of a distorted perception of reality , nevertheless , ‘ retrospectively ’ , they can also be considered to demonstrate reflexivity . |
| 17 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |
| 18 | Some criteria , such as bacteriological standards are not capable of being visually assessed . |
| 19 | A few were the products of early pre-fabrication techniques , as at Ladson , South Carolina , and many , like American houses , were mobile , capable of being reused in different locations . |
| 20 | One Russian paper , described as ‘ highly conservative ’ , contained a piece , some of which , it was said at the time , was barely capable of being rendered into printable English . |
| 21 | An ‘ idea-meme ’ might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another . |
| 22 | If this does occur , then the Act will be seen to have been part of a ‘ softening-up ’ exercise , creating the conditions within which abolition of the right is capable of being presented as an inevitable rationalization , without actually tackling it directly . |
| 23 | So far as confession evidence is concerned , the old law emphasized that , to be capable of being entered in evidence , a confession had to be obtained ‘ voluntarily ’ . |
| 24 | In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn . |
| 25 | Although the courts do not refuse in principle to review the exercise of police discretionary powers , they do nevertheless exercise a great deal of caution and restraint to such a degree that it is difficult to see how in practice the principles of judicial review are capable of being used to challenge decisions to issue warrants where these are considered to be necessary for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 26 | I shall suggest , in other words , that marriage as a legal institution implying certain mutual rights and obligation is capable of being extended , and should be extended , to cover single-sex relationships . |
| 27 | I have suggested , however , that it is equally capable of being manipulated to defeat the right . |
| 28 | His view of a science was twofold : first , its propositions should be conclusively refutable , and therefore capable of being asserted as facts until such time as they are refuted ; secondly , it should be useful . |
| 29 | Three simple rules of thumb are that information should be : capable of being understood , timely and relevant . |
| 30 | Yet the medical authorities would not dearly state this , nor did the police believe that they had a case capable of being taken further , not least because the abused woman could not tell us how it had happened . |