Example sentences of "capable [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 2 | Another major advantage is the insight it is capable of yielding into the social and communicative norms of the community . |
| 3 | Are you capable of sailing in the prevailing conditions ? |
| 4 | Sooner or later it occurs to the owner that , for the price of two or three battery changes , it should be possible to make a transformer-rectifier unit capable of acting as a permanent substitute for the battery . |
| 5 | It filled space and was believed capable of acting on the nervous system of living forms directly , depending upon the individual fluctuating resonances in the body . |
| 6 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 7 | ‘ Boris Nikolayevich … intends to act as resolutely as he showed himself capable of acting in the fateful days of August 1991 , ’ said spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov , referring to Mr Yeltsin 's role in thwarting a Communist coup . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure you 're quite capable of passing on a simple message . |
| 9 | Leptons include particles such as the familiar electrons , which orbit the atomic nucleus , and the mysterious neutrinos , which are almost undetectable particles capable of passing through the entire earth untouched . |
| 10 | It is n't a graphics accelerator , but it 's capable of moving at a decent lick when put on a fast bus . |
| 11 | Recently it has been shown that Raman spectra may be obtained from a wide variety of samples using a combination of an interferometer capable of operating in the near-IR region and a near-IR laser . |
| 12 | You could say that out of the simple song there came the poem capable of expressing in a short length deep thoughts . |
| 13 | There is no need here to consider what is capable of amounting to a reasonable excuse , but it suffices to say that the defence is clearly of very limited scope . |
| 14 | and Otton J. ) affirmed his acquittal by the Crown Court ( which had allowed an appeal against conviction by justices ) on the ground that the defendant , when required to give blood , had raised an objection capable of amounting to a medical reason why blood should not be taken and that this could only be determined by a medical practitioner . |
| 15 | He is confident that given five years and more know-how , Russia will have international companies capable of competing at a global level . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With a string of achievements already to his credit , including the development of such diverse destinations as Dallan in China and Rostov-on-Don in Russia , the former chief executive of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board hopes to see Derry move forward as a ‘ unified community capable of competing with the best in Europe ’ . |
| 18 | Wallace Mercer , the effusive and outspoken chairman of Hearts , made a public and hostile bid for control of bitter rivals Hibernian , with the intention of merging the clubs to form an Edinburgh team capable of competing in a European super-league . |
| 19 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 20 | So there seems little room for doubt that the graptolites were capable of living in an open-ocean environment . |
| 21 | Kinnock did much to knock the Labour Party , if not into the 1990s , then at least into something resembling a political organisation capable of escaping from the 1970s . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 24 | When the front wheels were no longer capable of pointing in the desired direction of travel , it would launch into a gentle semi-spin if you did not act to salvage the situation . |
| 25 | Even better followed when the intelligent Coleman , always capable of rising above the mundane , made a marvellous break that was followed by a superb inside pass to Divorty . |
| 26 | Swansea deserved to win because , hard though they tried to disguise it , they actually were the better side , and in Robert Jones and the accomplished Tony Clement , they had half-backs capable of rising above the long grass slicked by rain and the inevitable slippery ball . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | you need also , very much , to have the all round development , the ability to be nimble , speedy and capable of dealing with the unexpected , and a series of movements demanding and challenging on weight transference and balance performed with speed and various use of space . |
| 29 | Both Mannertreu from Bressingham and River Irt from Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway are superbly powerful mainline narrow gauge engines , and perfectly capable of dealing with the steep inclines and heavy loads the Broadland Line has to cope with . |
| 30 | increasing the complexity of the tasks that our PCs are capable of performing in a reasonable time-span . |