Example sentences of "incapable [prep] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suspected she was incapable of loving any other . |
| 2 | I do n't believe any such nonsense about myself , but I do believe your ego is so invincible that you 're incapable of believing any woman could be totally uninterested in sleeping with you . |
| 3 | He was incapable of entering any room quietly , especially at breakfast time . |
| 4 | Spanish agriculture was incapable of producing any surplus ; indeed , production had sunk to nineteenth-century levels . |
| 5 | She was incapable of taking any action without seeking justification from her compliant husband . |
| 6 | Not only did trader and master subvert that sense and render the victims of the Middle Passage ‘ incapable of deriving any benefit from Christianity ’ but slave trading and slavery were a context conducive to sinfulness by loosening constraints on passion . |
| 7 | The method has become so ensconced in public law thought that today we seem incapable of recognizing any work which predates Dicey ; it is as though he invented the subject . |
| 8 | He seemed incapable of forming any relationships . |
| 9 | They were incapable of experiencing any emotions , their bloodstreams devoid of blood yet flowing with drugs to sustain their pitiful physical states until he received the call , the dreaded call to wheel them into the lift and press the green button . |
| 10 | The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed . |
| 11 | It is remote , hard to reach , in terrain extremely difficult to travel , where beasts of burden would be virtually incapable of conveying any loads . |
| 12 | But , no , my ‘ assailant ’ proves incapable of doing any GBH unto me . |
| 13 | Right now she was incapable of concocting any kind of explanation , and she certainly could n't have faced telling them all the truth . |
| 14 | He 's totally incapable of committing any type of crime , let alone murder and rape — that signal is oddly worded , coming from Howard . ’ |