Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By July he hoped to be able to meet Butcher at Cheam , a property where the fourth Duke had spent his early married life ; but only if the weather proved favourable , ‘ for I have had the Rheumatism so bad of late , as to make me fearful of riding in the wet ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 'Are you afraid of going into the glory of our Lord Hapexamendios ? ’ |
| 4 | Are you capable of getting to the library Christopher ? |
| 5 | Are you capable of sailing in the prevailing conditions ? |
| 6 | It would be almost certain to give the strongest party not a majority of seats , but only a plurality , thus rendering it incapable of governing without the support or at least the consent of one other party . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the NME offices at this time were dominated by sad , prematurely middle-aged post-modernist bores , sneering at anything enthusiastic of smacking of the political in pop . |