Example sentences of "capable of [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , if a High Street is turned into a four-lane urban clearway the trading potential of a shop may be severely affected , but an index-linked rent will not be capable of reflecting that change . |
| 2 | It is useless to apply organic matter in this form while at the same time inhibiting , by the use of certain artificial fertilizers , the fungi capable of converting that organic matter into humus . |
| 3 | Since the words of section 63 are perfectly capable of bearing that meaning , in my judgment that is the meaning they should be given . |
| 4 | I believe everybody in Mark Hall is capable of achieving that target . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 6 | Now it had produced a man who seemed capable of duplicating that feat in the vast Lenin Stadium in Moscow . |
| 7 | Either it 's argued that British life does n't show up well in front of a film camera , or that British filmmakers are n't capable of using that camera to probe behind the surface of things . |
| 8 | He also insisted that ‘ every compromise with the existing system leaves us less capable of changing that system ’ . |
| 9 | As one senior British civil servant once put it : Such a view of democracy depends on the existence of political institutions capable of exacting that responsiveness and exercising that control . |
| 10 | We have got Cyprus at home and anyone watching tonight should know we are capable of winning that one . |
| 11 | Each Y-neuron contacts only one output cell and is capable of activating that cell . |
| 12 | ‘ I also know I 'm the only one capable of freeing that butterfly from its chrysalis . ’ |
| 13 | Now that we have the practice of dustmen only collecting plastic bags that you have to place outside your residence , you have to be sure that you are capable of doing that . |
| 14 | But the point t that Hughie makes is that y you allocate er y you , you make the project engineer someone who have trained , and , and that you know is capable of doing that job . |
| 15 | And it 's been bought upon by necessity really they 've had to play their way through and they certainly should be capable of doing that . |
| 16 | Head of Department : ‘ I 'd be capable of doing that well ! ’ |
| 17 | Erm the shot gun is preferable in these cases , the fact that er they are used generally as a support weapon erm should we ent encounter any problems in the area that I was covering , this was thought to be the best weapon capable of doing that job . |
| 18 | Where what you do is take something , that is capable of doing that , and you take something that 's capable of doing that , and you join them together , and between them you get so much more than they could do individually . |
| 19 | Where what you do is take something , that is capable of doing that , and you take something that 's capable of doing that , and you join them together , and between them you get so much more than they could do individually . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's disturbing to think people are driving around who are capable of doing that , ’ he added . |
| 21 | ) It must be capable of explaining that part of the organisation defined for these purposes by business analysis , and |