Example sentences of "capable of [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the modern public is capable of seeing through the disguise . |
| 2 | Compared with Charity , he was a mere minnow capable of slipping through the net as easy as winking . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 7 | The Chairman of Aerospatiale , the French aerospace group , commented that the proposed merger ( together with that between Daimler Benz and Messerschmitt under consideration at the same time ) risked setting a trend towards diversified national groupings , which would make the task of creating a European aerospace industry , capable of competing with the US , more difficult . |
| 8 | In fact one of the striking characteristics of the history of Africa 's informals during the last three decades is how few of them have managed to launch genuine large-scale businesses , capable of competing with the foreign-owned or -managed enterprises which are still so critical in many countries . |
| 9 | Nor is it to deny that a society capable of providing for the fulfilment of all human needs , all the time , would eliminate the need for money altogether . |
| 10 | He was more than ever aware of the control which Burun was capable of exercising over the affairs of the Kha-Khan 's court . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Are you capable of getting to the library Christopher ? |
| 14 | Superpowered craft with engines up to eight litres in capacity and capable of surging across the water at 120mph will compete for the class two championship of Europe . |
| 15 | Superpowered craft capable of surging across the water at 120mph will take part in a high speed challenge for the class two championship of Europe over the weekend of June 19–20 . |
| 16 | The coming out of the horse , following long discussions and meetings between doctors , nurses , patients and artists , was also an opportunity to denounce the miserable conditions of the Mental Hospital , the backwardness of the law in force , the nurses ' working conditions and , above all , the lack of real prospects for all those patients who were already capable of living outside the hospital . |
| 17 | Clara Malraux offers an instructive assessment of Nizan 's psychology at this juncture : I think that Nizan was capable of living with the faults . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose Alice is capable of looking after the shop ? ’ |
| 19 | Caro was too astute , quite capable of reading between the lines and discerning Robbie 's feelings for her stepbrother . |
| 20 | Film is capable of rising above the limitations of language and other cultural barriers . |
| 21 | Film is capable of rising above the limitations of language and other cultural barriers . |
| 22 | Maxwell 's equations written in the stationary frame of reference should be perfectly capable of dealing with the problem . |
| 23 | Perhaps the person experiences an overwhelming sense of injustice which renders them less capable of dealing with the problem a second time . |
| 24 | Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm perfectly capable of dealing with the situation here for you . |
| 26 | He was , of course , totally capable of dealing with the situation . |
| 27 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | They are quite capable of paying for the resource they want and they want to provide it , but they 're just not allowed to do it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm perfectly capable of walking round the corner on my own . ’ |