Example sentences of "to be capable [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 The house which in everyday discourse the wife and husband regarded as ‘ theirs ’ turned out in legal discourse to be capable of being theirs in many different ways .
3 Since neither House can by its own declaration create a new privilege , privilege may be considered to be capable of being ascertained and thus judicially known to the courts .
4 Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing .
5 Objectives must be set if the mission is to be capable of being achieved .
6 Furthermore , this " essence " needs to be capable of being infinitely adaptable according to the uniqueness of each person 's experience and needs and interests .
7 Notice that the technique is extremely difficult to apply to the potentiometer divider of figure 8.1(c) because the resistance ratio can be varied continuously to alter the division of potential , and any introduced ratio of parallel capacitance would need to be capable of being varied in sympathy .
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