Example sentences of "[prep] [be] capable " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility of reason-giving , of being capable of the awareness that one 's life was one way , that it is now different , and that futility is the result , involves , as I have contended at length , the possibility of language . |
| 2 | I see education as far more than just training you to go out and do a job , and I think the whole learning process , whatever you 're learning , matures you into being capable of taking responsibilities and learning other things , and I think arts subjects do that just as well as science subjects . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 5 | You 'd like to be capable of violence … |
| 6 | It seems likely that a redefinition of the principal crimes of physical violation would cover most of these cases anyway , and the Criminal Law Revision Committee saw the need to supplement the general offences with only one special offence — administering to another , without his consent , any substance which D knows to be capable of interfering substantially with the other 's bodily functions . |
| 7 | ICI 's pharmaceutical company in America is investing $24.7m ( £14m ) at its Newark , Delaware , complex to handle production of Merrem , an injectible drug said to be capable of treating sepsis and infections contracted by people taking leukaemia treatment . |
| 8 | Many different viruses have been shown in field trials to be capable of giving very satisfactory levels of control of their host insect . |
| 9 | Furthermore , Hoyle suggests that there is indeed a tension between the two approaches — that restricted professionality is unlikely in practice to be capable of extension or , put another way , that extended professionality can only be achieved at the cost of effective , restricted professionality at the classroom level . |
| 10 | Certainly , living cephalopods have a sophisticated nervous system and a relatively large ‘ brain' : octopuses seem to be capable of very rapid learning . |
| 11 | Salter told the inquiry how his ‘ bobbing duck ’ device — a duck-shaped canister which , when installed in lines out to sea , would continually extract energy from the waves — had at that time ( 1982 ) been officially estimated to be capable of producing electricity at about 5 pence per kilowatt hour ( p/kWh ) . |
| 12 | A level gutter with a central outlet is said to be capable of draining 210 sq . |
| 13 | Von Sophias Jonnifer , who I personally consider to be capable of winning anywhere in the world . |
| 14 | As well as a deep understanding of your soil , crops , and animals , as a smallholder you need to be capable of a high degree of self-reliance in maintaining fences , gates , water supply , buildings , machinery , and equipment . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts . |
| 17 | But all kinds of labour ‘ had to be capable of readily adapting themselves to new conditions , and not become petrified in a rigid and inflexible mould ’ . |
| 18 | Dust filters and biological air filters appear to be capable of achieving considerable success in removing odours but can be fairly expensive , and new developments are taking place all the time , for example compost soil filters have been developed mainly in Germany and are being investigated by Warren Springs Laboratory . |
| 19 | Opted-out schools , operating in atomised isolation , in competition with each other and with the rump of the LEA system are unlikely to be capable of collective action in support of whole community needs . |
| 20 | It is reckoned to be capable of cutting the death rate from fractures in older women by 60 per cent and may also protect against heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 21 | Both UA1 and UA2 were designed to be capable of detecting W and Z particles . |
| 22 | Clarke would do us all a big service if , in his next book , he could produce a law that sorts out the predictions that are too spineless from those that assume the human race to be capable of too much , |
| 23 | Malaysian Mining Corporation Berhad , effectively held that a comfort letter which does not expressly and precisely state that it has no contractual force will have such force , if its terms are sufficiently precise to be capable of interpretation . |
| 24 | You and your horse need to be capable of jumping solid fences safely and under control . |
| 25 | The more complex the life-cycle , the easier it should be to interrupt it and thus eradicate the parasite , but each link in the phylloxera chain appears to be capable of regenerating a modified cycle . |
| 26 | Does not a human cypher or zero have to be capable of hearing the inner voice and , to the extent that he does hear it , is he not then a human being with the defects and failings that one normally associates with a human being ? |
| 27 | Not only may viruses incorporate themselves into our DNA , but there is now a suggestion that some viruses at least may have arisen from bits of our own DNA which have escaped from our cells and become so modified as to be capable of independent existence . |
| 28 | The washers must be correctly aligned , filled with fluid and be otherwise correctly maintained , so as to be capable of cleaning in conjunction with the wipers . |
| 29 | However , we do not expect our computers to be capable of experiencing emotions , even though emotions are clearly a fundamental part of human intelligence . |
| 30 | It should now be apparent that for any rights theory to be capable of satisfactorily addressing the broader problems which now confront our traditional representative institutions it will need to transcend the essentially liberal principles which lie at the heart of Dworkin 's thesis . |