Example sentences of "capable of [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the improvement in turbo cars in such a short space of time that they were soon capable of producing anything up to 1300 b.h.p . |
| 2 | It is now fairly certain that the Australia antigen represents part of the virus responsible for type B hepatitis and its discovery has made it easier to determine the modes of transmission and the presence of a ‘ carrier ’ state , in which the infected person may suffer no ill health from his disease but is still capable of passing it on to others . |
| 3 | Consider a rebel stretch of human DNA that is capable of snipping itself out of its chromosome , floating freely in the cell , perhaps multiplying itself up into many copies , and then splicing itself into another chromosome . |
| 4 | But whereas comedy is capable of taking us out of fear , the Gothic tends to take us further in . |
| 5 | If there is anything capable of lifting you up to the gates of heaven , then that is it . |