Example sentences of "capable of [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bath do not have a Willie Ofahengaue to launch those killer moves from the back row , but with Barnes , Guscott and Swift they do have a midfield and a right wing fully capable of cashing in on the Campese option . |
| 2 | They are capable of moving rapidly across the battlefield in a very short time , either to intercept enemy or to harass static war machines . |
| 3 | Yet while these rays tan it now seems UVAs are also the rays which are much more capable of penetrating deeply into the skin , and so cause damage , especially where children 's sensitive skin are concerned . |
| 4 | They may , for instance , be capable of rising magnificently to the occasion when a neighbour 's sick , deprived , or even delinquent child needs help , or they may be wonderful wives , husbands or parents and do much useful voluntary work in the community , and yet lack the particular type of emotional muscle required to support old people . |
| 5 | Joseph O'Conor also makes Menenius infinitely more than a wily patrician : he seems the only one capable of communicating sanely with the several , warring factions . |
| 6 | We covered this earlier and it may be because the coach feels that you are not capable of performing well under the pressure of an actual competition . |
| 7 | Local income taxes might be thought capable of performing better against the criterion of equity , but it was argued that they would be difficult to administer in the UK , for the reasons outlined by Kay and King ( 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Throughout her life she had so successfully controlled her emotions that she was now capable of responding only to the demands of music . |
| 9 | Because these men who knew with such unquestionable certainty the difference between right and wrong , and who blithely described the garotters as creatures capable of responding only to the fear of physical pain , were people who knew a great deal about physical pain . |
| 10 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 11 | As the leavening of hardened veterans became sparser and sparser , so the pathetic eighteen-year-olds fresh from the parade grounds in the Fatherland showed themselves less and less capable of standing up to the remorseless demands of the Verdun fighting . |
| 12 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | How many aircraft were they capable of working on at the same time ? |
| 15 | Von Sophias Jonnifer , who I personally consider to be capable of winning anywhere in the world . |
| 16 | They were perfectly capable of going back to the perch without my help . |
| 17 | As with cuttings in a garden , they are capable of growing just like the original plant . |