Example sentences of "capable [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already it had whipped the shallow water inside the reef into short seas , white-capped and capable of stopping the big cat in its tracks if he had tried sailing for the far point and Belpan City . |
| 2 | According to the report , the proposed staffing structures for the projected new unitary authorities do not appear to be capable of maintaining the current level and quality of services and management practices . |
| 3 | This , as argued here before , is the one question capable of splitting the Tory Party , at least to the extent of creating factions with a passionate attachment to their prejudices , and no great reluctance to insist on them even at the cost of deep party division . |
| 4 | However , estimates of the space needed for a battery of windmills capable of producing the same amount of electricity as a normal power station , fossil fuel or nuclear , range from 100 to 200 square miles . |
| 5 | But you will also remember that each of these cells is capable of holding the whole text of the New Testament and , moreover , it is gigantic when measured by the number of sophisticated machines that it contains . |
| 6 | On site are fork lifts with maximum lift capacity of 7,000 kg. and maximum reach of 144 ins. and hi-lo scissor lifts with a maximum lift capacity of 7,000 kg. and maximum reach of 218.5 ins ( capable of serving the main deck of a B747F ) . |
| 7 | The programmes of those early years explored the whole range of possibilities offered by civil nuclear power and paved the way for the growth of a domestic industry capable of mastering the entire fuel cycle from the mine through enrichment to reprocessing . |
| 8 | It hangs too much on the concept of class and fails to explore the changes and complexities that bear on this ; it tends to be gross in its handling of the power of business ; and it is unsure in its handling of the power of organised labour , seeing it both as lacking in any real power , but as somehow having the potential to become a ferocious force capable of transforming the capitalist system totally . |
| 9 | This means that it must be capable of forming the weak hydrogen bonds between the two strands which hold together all double-stranded forms of DNA or RNA . |
| 10 | The goal is a practical , affordable and manufacturable diamond multichip module capable of handling the thermal management problems of current and next-generation high-power microprocessors , which increasingly exhibit the properties of furnaces and microwave ovens . |
| 11 | The goal is a practical , affordable and manufacturable diamond multichip module capable of handling the thermal management problems of current and next-generation high-power microprocessors , which increasingly exhibit the properties of furnaces and microwave ovens . |
| 12 | Dance in all its aspects has proved capable of embracing the whole range of emotions and behaviour that emerge from a proper reading and understanding of the text . |
| 13 | Does the Minister accept that UKIAS is not capable of providing the same level of professional advice as can presently be provided under the legal aid system ? |
| 14 | In spite of the 190bhp power output capable of taking the little car from standstill to 60mph in under seven seconds and on to double the UK speed limit , it is that smoothness and flexibility that impress rather than the muscle . |
| 15 | KBS do not have a separate inference engine hence they are not capable of achieving the full range of reasoning strategies involved in aircraft maintenance . |
| 16 | We know that Britain ended the 1940s with a Labour government , a National Health Service , a Keynesian Treasury and an economy that was capable of delivering the magic triumvirate of full employment , low inflation and economic growth . |
| 17 | It was not until well after the war began that Iraq started to diversify in the direction of France , with the Mirage and Super Etendard , both capable of delivering the much-discussed Exocet air/surface ( AS ) missile . |
| 18 | At Standard Grade pupils carry out an investigation in a topic which interests them and by the Sixth Year each will be capable of using the Heriot-Watt University computer model of the economy . |
| 19 | Does not a human cypher or zero have to be capable of hearing the inner voice and , to the extent that he does hear it , is he not then a human being with the defects and failings that one normally associates with a human being ? |
| 20 | Consequently the first problem in tackling this mass of data , comprehending nearly 70,000 names , is to devise a taxonomy capable of transcending the obvious fact that some were richer ( or poorer ) than others — one , moreover , which bears some tangible relationship to the structure of society at the time , and preferably is verifiable in terms of contemporary theory . |
| 21 | Carrie flashed a glance in his direction and Seb blushed , believing Tom was capable of reading the same meaning into the look as he did . |
| 22 | A multi-circuit pylon capable of carrying the existing line and the new cable and therefore replacing the present line rather than adding to it could also be considered for parts of the route . |
| 23 | Give every lion wings and make every caryatid an Amazon capable of carrying the whole world on her skull . |
| 24 | For , he reasons , only a biological female ‘ is naturally capable of performing the essential role of a woman in marriage ’ . |
| 25 | There is one Romanian surgeon capable of performing the open heart operation to replace the middle aged woman 's valves . |
| 26 | And these regulators must be capable of resisting the regulatory capture we discussed in Chapter 17 . |
| 27 | The Arsenal pair might just be capable of staging the best road show since Hope and Crosby — but Ipswich had very few laughs at Highbury . |
| 28 | She knew that I was perfectly capable of having the whole thing made in black leatherette if left to my own devices . |
| 29 | Examples do not define , they illustrate ; and they are illustrative only to those who are capable of grasping the general concept that underlies them and represents their " species-identity " . |
| 30 | It is not clear if either of these possibilities accurately represents the full implications of Gibson 's ( 1969 ) differentiation theory , but both are capable of predicting the required result . |