Example sentences of "capable of [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 2 | If , however , the requirements are not well defined or the system design is not capable of meeting all the requirements , then much unnecessary fire , smoke and water damage may occur through the system failing to control the fire quickly . |
| 3 | An enhanced co-ordinating role is available to those capable of meeting this challenge , especially as the number of districts and units reduces and UGMs come to represent larger conglomerations of provider groupings . |
| 4 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 5 | Consequently , males are capable of fathering more progeny than females can bear and rear : in current terminology ( Trivers , 1972 ) they invest less heavily in their offspring than females . |
| 6 | The software management system must be capable of supporting many different approaches to overall software management schemes . |
| 7 | Both your stand and the floor it stands on must be capable of supporting this weight . |
| 8 | Bauer argued that nations were not , as Marx argued , temporary historical formations produced by the rise and rule of the bourgeoisie , but of great antiquity , capable of outlasting all economic change , the residue of the history of a people , ‘ the totality of men bound , together through a common destiny in a community of character ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's such a thing as greed , Emily , and sad to say brothers are capable of hating each other , take Cain and Abel for example . ’ |
| 10 | Only one outside power is capable of removing those roadblocks . |
| 11 | In my view , such bras are capable of causing more damage by trapping breast tissue between the rib cage and the incoming blow . |
| 12 | If someone does come looking for trouble , he or she will pick a victim who does not look capable of causing any real problem . |
| 13 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 14 | I must therefore confine myself to expressing the hope that the Law Commission might look at the subject to see whether there is in fact any good reason now for maintaining a rule which operates to defeat contractually agreed arrangements between the parties ( of which all successors in title are aware ) and which is capable of producing such an extraordinary result as that in the present case . |
| 15 | In his first address to the UN since taking office , United States President George Bush on Sept. 25 made proposals for cuts in chemical weapons , saying that the United States would begin elimination of 60 per cent or 98 per cent of its chemical weapons respectively , provided the Soviet Union cut its own stockpile to an equal level or eliminated it completely ; and that the USA would destroy all its chemical weapons within 10 years if the countries capable of producing such weapons signed a total ban treaty . |
| 16 | Calls for an inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) of the Yongbyon nuclear power complex came after the alleged discovery by United States monitoring services , reported in the Washington Post in August 1989 , of an apparent new reprocessing facility , capable of producing enough plutonium to manufacture one atomic bomb per year . |
| 17 | Mr Wakerley said when police later went to Sams ' workshop , in Newark , Nottinghamshire , they found there a set of stencils capable of producing both messages . |
| 18 | With the bridge pickup in expander mode the RD is more than capable of producing some very aurally uncomfortable noises . |
| 19 | I think these kind of comments are most unfair , as Andrew has a very exciting fast court game , and he is still more than capable of producing some good results . |
| 20 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 21 | From the first he would often stay behind ‘ after hours ’ , telling his mates he ‘ just wanted to finish this run ’ because he knew the machines were capable of producing more material than they were currently achieving . |
| 22 | Although much effort has been expended in the search for ‘ crucial ’ experiments that would support one of these exaplanations at the expense of the other , Tetlock and Manstead ( Psychological Review , 1985 ) have shown that none of six methodological strategies adopted to date is capable of yielding such decisive evidence . |
| 23 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Early fountain pens were made of black rubber and were semi-disposable ; the Duofold was a bright reddish-orange colour , much larger than other contemporary pens and thus capable of holding more ink , guaranteed for twenty-five years — and nearly three times the price of an average pen . |
| 26 | Because the Z88 is a sophisticated computer which is capable of holding several programs in memory concurrently , this option has complications . |
| 27 | The Z88 is a sophisticated computer which is capable of holding several programs in memory concurrently . |
| 28 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And the county council feels that it has adequately addressed the needs of the districts within the county , erm obviously that 's up to the panel to determine whether you agree with that , and we believe that the strategic framework is capable of addressing any changing needs or circumstances without recourse to a policy which we feel would reduce the clarity of the structure plan . |