Example sentences of "it is [adj] of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lubrication may be provided by melting between mineral boundaries , but molten material must only form a small proportion of the asthenosphere since it is capable of transmitting S-waves . |
| 2 | There is urgent need to determine the limits of production … if we are to avoid the danger of trying to extract more from the land than it is capable of yielding . |
| 3 | The method is , however , applicable only if the investigator has extremely clear goals in mind , already well worked out in advance , and a major disadvantage is the very limited nature of the data which it is capable of yielding . |
| 4 | Another major advantage is the insight it is capable of yielding into the social and communicative norms of the community . |
| 5 | It is an advantage of the analysis offered in the last chapter that it is capable of accounting for authority over a group on the basis of authority relations between individuals . |
| 6 | It is difficult to imagine the mosaicist working without this tool , for it is capable of fracturing the hardest stones , it is easy to carry , and it can be used with very small pieces of material . |
| 7 | Mortal means both that the snake is mortal , will have a life and then die , and also that it is capable of dealing a mortal blow , of killing . |
| 8 | The people who designed the drill say it is capable of drilling for oil in almost any direction , and will penetrate deposits that today 's drills can not reach . |
| 9 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 10 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 11 | Once a replicator has come into existence it is capable of generating an indefinitely large set of copies of itself . |
| 12 | What distinguishes W. from them , and what with all respect I do not think that Thorpe J. took sufficiently into account ( perhaps because the point did not emerge as clearly before him as it did before us ) , is that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 13 | At the hearing before us it was conceded , in answer to a question put by the court , that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 14 | It is capable of defecting , but it does so only in retaliation . |
| 15 | Although not all words containing these sounds manifest the ( usually somewhat indeterminate ) meaning , it is capable of transferring to new coinages . |
| 16 | A ruling class enjoys hegemony if it is capable of exercising moral and political leadership , thereby achieving the consent of the masses . |
| 17 | Because it enjoys this authority it is capable of affecting the fortunes of people beyond the scope of its authority in the two ways mentioned above . |
| 18 | On the contrary , since the enterprise is an organization with a complex internal structure and of necessity relatively autonomous from political control , it is capable of developing its own internal interests and agenda ( cf. Levy 1987 ) . |
| 19 | It is capable of displaying photo-realistic 24-bit colour images at a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels , and high resolution , flicker-free displays at up to 1280 x 1024 screen resolution . |
| 20 | For instance , we can picture the meaning of a word as a pattern of affinities and disaffinities with all the other words in the language with which it is capable of contrasting semantic relations in grammatical contexts . |
| 21 | The meaning of a ( simple ) sentence is qualitatively different from that of any of its constituents — it is capable of saying something that can stand on its own as a message . |
| 22 | With five horizontal and vertical fan bladed thrusters , it is capable of turning completely on its axis of moving helicopter-like in any direction to within a few centimetres of where it is directed . |
| 23 | It is capable of seating a 100-plus audience . |
| 24 | It is capable of measuring the height and direction of wind and waves — even through cloud and at night — meaning that oceanographers may no longer have to travel the seas in weather ships . |
| 25 | Power stations can be made cleaner and more efficient , so that they use less fossil fuel , particularly high carbon coal ; energy can be used more economically by the consumer ; and there is nuclear energy ( the subject of the following chapter ) , which whatever else it is capable of doing , does not produce carbon dioxide . |
| 26 | Yet , given the opportunity and some imaginative presentation , the urban population has shown that it is capable of responding , judging by the numbers who take an interest at county shows or who turn up at the pitifully few farms which organize public open days . |
| 27 | It is capable of running entirely from floppy disks and so allows computer users without a hard drive to produce professional scores . |
| 28 | Let us take two parallel conducting plates in a vacuum , one of them endowed with the property that it is capable of emitting electrons . |
| 29 | Article 6 provides that unfair terms shall not bind the consumer but that the contract shall continue to bind the parties upon the remaining terms if it is capable of continuing in existence without the unfair terms . |
| 30 | Give too much and it may bring about the very conditions it is capable of curing ; ‘ Through the like , disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured ’ , said Hippocrates over 2000 years ago . |