Example sentences of "capable of [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only man capable of stopping his flow of boundaries was Dickie Bird , who took the players off for bad light for quarter of an hour at 5.30 . |
| 2 | And erm somebody like Mike of Chris is perfectly capable of get their bits of paper to check to tick off things like that but Wendy will have to check it and put it you know they could do some of the legwork but not yet . |
| 3 | He was capable of wanting nothing all day , of sending every meal away and not allowing Teresa in , even to make up his fire or turn down his bed , and then , around midnight , calling for his breakfast and complaining he was cold because the fire had gone out . |
| 4 | If vampires are capable of recognizing their friends , the experimentally starved bat should turn out to be fed only by those from its own original cave . |
| 5 | The bottom line is that whilst Wilko has made decisions which have upset , even annoyed us , if he were to leave for the England job there is no-one remotely capable of replacing him . |
| 6 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 7 | By his order dated 12 May 1992 Waite J. directed that in the interim pending a further hearing in the events that ( 1 ) J. 's medical condition changed so that his life was threatened but was capable of being prolonged by intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( 2 ) he was at that time in the health authority 's care and ( 3 ) the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority were to cause such measures , including artificial ventilation , to be applied to J. for so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 8 | Health Authority do cause such measures ( including , if so required to prolong his life , artificial ventilation ) to be applied to [ J. ] for so long as they are capable of prolonging his life . |
| 9 | The order which he in fact made was against the health authority requiring it to ‘ cause such measures ( including , if so required to prolong his life , artificial ventilation ) to be applied to [ the child ] for so long as they are capable of prolonging his life . ’ |
| 10 | It believes DEC is more than capable of meeting its goals at the top end of the market — in the same way that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp capitalised on the performance of their respective HP 9000 Series 700 and RS/6000 lines when they were introduced . |
| 11 | It believes DEC is more than capable of meeting its goals at the top end of the market — in the same way that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM capitalised on the performance of their respective HP 9000 Series 700 and RS/6000 lines when they were introduced . |
| 12 | But , he says , agents have also learned the lessons of recent years by adapting their sales measures to cope with the recession , identifying more closely buyers capable of meeting their financial responsibilities and building solid ‘ chains ’ to ensure successful completion of negotiations . |
| 13 | The above is only an extract from a full job description but nevertheless I can already identify four areas where I would need guidance and information before I would feel capable of meeting my responsibilities safely . |
| 14 | Sheer determination to prove she could do the job her father had n't believed her capable of kept her plugging away at it . |
| 15 | So you see , if he should find out about us , he 's quite capable of disinheriting me . ’ |
| 16 | In theory , those who worked on the farms were capable of supporting themselves . |
| 17 | She went easily , her trembling legs no longer capable of supporting her , watching in silence as he strode over to the table next to the window embrasure and stood with his back to her , leaning both fists on the oak surface . |
| 18 | ‘ That being said , anyone will tell you that a Minister of the Crown needs a wife capable of supporting him . |
| 19 | Additional relieving officers were to be appointed to keep close watch on paupers , to enquire of neighbours and relatives as to whether they had undisclosed earnings or , in the case of single women , regular male friends capable of supporting them . |
| 20 | Individual fetal cells with specific immunophenotypes were found to differentiate either into haematopoietic precursors or into the stromal cells capable of supporting them . |
| 21 | What is the real cost of degrading an entire river system to the point that it is no longer capable of supporting its most highly-evolved species ? ’ |
| 22 | The implication of this is that something that is no longer capable of supporting you — this may involve beliefs and people as much as material structures — will fall by the wayside . |
| 23 | But even if they did not , the style demanded players of exceptional calibre — who were becoming increasingly rare — and a manager capable of moulding them into an effective outfit ; in this no one measured up to Chapman . |
| 24 | But Bez ai n't capable of hating anyone . |
| 25 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 26 | But if someone in the past was capable of inventing it , why can not other people be inventing it now ? |
| 27 | A Xerox machine is capable of copying its own blueprints , but it is not capable of springing spontaneously into existence . |
| 28 | In the event that it could not locate a world in reasonable proximity which possessed both a breathable atmosphere and acceptable conditions of gravity and temperature , a pod was capable of maintaining its passenger in a state of suspended animation for an almost indefinite period . |
| 29 | In the absence of marketing and production systems capable of producing what the consumer wants , both have had to engage in a ‘ hard sell ’ of that range of rather standardized services actually on offer . |
| 30 | When , for example , colonies of bacterial species in a laboratory were deprived of a certain kind of amino acid needed for growth , they produced mutant strains capable of producing their own amino acids . |