Example sentences of "be capable of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Whether there is a percolation of water seawards in the beach material is another possibility , which does not seem to have received much attention , but it is unlikely that such a form of movement would be capable of dealing with the total volume of water involved . |
| 3 | In all , the search for visual relays working in parallel with the primary cortical visual mechanisms has been disappointing , even though there is good evidence that these areas must be capable of operating in the absence of the visual cortex . |
| 4 | What it may be capable of doing in the living cell whether for good or ill remains to be discovered , ’ |
| 5 | Although the ban is sufficiently wide to be capable of applying to the officer who conducts the suspect to the parade , the mischief at which the provision is obviously aimed is the risk of contact between the identifying witness and the officer involved in the investigation . |
| 6 | This means they must have been capable of crawling onto the land , like the sole survivors today of such creatures , called the dipnoans , a type of fish with lungs which live in Africa , Australia and South America . |
| 7 | However , some N. battus eggs deposited in the spring are capable of hatching in the autumn of the same year resulting in significant numbers of L3 on the pasture at this time . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm a great delegator , but it is important to delegate to those who are capable of carrying through the task and you must have a good report-back system . ’ |
| 9 | Western countries should be prepared to open themselves far wider to East European countries that make a real move to democracy and free markets : let the shameful visa queues at western embassies disappear , welcome Gastarbeiter from these countries , open up to any exports deserving East Europeans are capable of selling in the West 's competitive markets . |
| 10 | ‘ Only you are capable of going through the papers . |
| 11 | And there are other English players , like Steve McManaman , he believes are capable of playing in the Italian league . |
| 12 | They too are capable of evolving in the direction of becoming better enemies , in this case enemies of cheetahs . |
| 13 | Even if the protection of the rights of local fishing communities were capable of falling within the concept of public policy for the purposes of article 56(1) , it must be held that it follows from what has been stated above that the nationality , residence and domicile requirements are disproportionate to that objective . |
| 14 | Another major advantage is the insight it is capable of yielding into the social and communicative norms of the community . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose Alice is capable of looking after the shop ? ’ |
| 16 | Film is capable of rising above the limitations of language and other cultural barriers . |
| 17 | Film is capable of rising above the limitations of language and other cultural barriers . |
| 18 | However , the modern public is capable of seeing through the disguise . |
| 19 | It may be more practical to use a commode for night-time toileting , even if the patient is capable of getting to the toilet when fully awake . |
| 20 | The roll , produced by ringing two adjacent sides of the triangle , when ff , is capable of coming through the ff of the full orchestra . |
| 21 | He states that natural justice , being a flexible term which imposes distinct requirements in different cases , is capable of applying to the whole range of situations encapsulated by the terms ‘ judicial , ’ ‘ quasi-judicial , ’ ‘ administrative ’ or ‘ executive ’ . |
| 22 | This defence is capable of applying to the car dealer who has sold a car with a ‘ clocked ’ odometer . |
| 23 | Peter said that although fifth was a respectable position he felt the team was capable of pushing for the top spot and added the society was eager for new blood . |
| 24 | He was more than ever aware of the control which Burun was capable of exercising over the affairs of the Kha-Khan 's court . |
| 25 | Clara Malraux offers an instructive assessment of Nizan 's psychology at this juncture : I think that Nizan was capable of living with the faults . |
| 26 | In preparation for this , the first decade of the regime was devoted to the development of the infrastructure , in particular the railways and canals , so that by 1860 France had reached a point where it was felt she was capable of competing with the greatest economic power of the age . |
| 27 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with . |
| 28 | The Archdeacon was capable of coping with the press , the Bishop , the police and the Parochial Church Council . |
| 29 | In 1948 Scott LJ attempted to elucidate a modern formula for ascertaining whether a covenant was capable of running with the land : |