Example sentences of "[noun] capable of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 2 | Compared with Charity , he was a mere minnow capable of slipping through the net as easy as winking . |
| 3 | Lazio 's manager , Dino Zoff , says that Gascoigne is all he needs to have a team capable of challenging for the title . |
| 4 | With a string of achievements already to his credit , including the development of such diverse destinations as Dallan in China and Rostov-on-Don in Russia , the former chief executive of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board hopes to see Derry move forward as a ‘ unified community capable of competing with the best in Europe ’ . |
| 5 | And if you 're going to use your stove in chilly conditions , you 'll need to pick a model which uses a fuel capable of coping with the cold . |
| 6 | Swansea deserved to win because , hard though they tried to disguise it , they actually were the better side , and in Robert Jones and the accomplished Tony Clement , they had half-backs capable of rising above the long grass slicked by rain and the inevitable slippery ball . |
| 7 | Kinnock did much to knock the Labour Party , if not into the 1990s , then at least into something resembling a political organisation capable of escaping from the 1970s . |
| 8 | Importantly , Australia has impliedly conceded that the Nauruan people although a third party to the Trusteeship Agreement , formed a legal entity capable of relying on the Agreement in litigation occurring post-independence . |
| 9 | The decade saw the emergence of three European women professionals capable of playing with the world 's best and , better yet , two of them proving it . |
| 10 | Leptons include particles such as the familiar electrons , which orbit the atomic nucleus , and the mysterious neutrinos , which are almost undetectable particles capable of passing through the entire earth untouched . |
| 11 | Superpowered craft capable of surging across the water at 120mph will take part in a high speed challenge for the class two championship of Europe over the weekend of June 19–20 . |
| 12 | Nor is it to deny that a society capable of providing for the fulfilment of all human needs , all the time , would eliminate the need for money altogether . |
| 13 | Could the future see a species capable of engaging in the defeat of the law of entropy in a final Armageddon ? |
| 14 | The number of scientists capable of contributing to the advance of scientific knowledge is a linear function of the total number of people entering science ( Cole & Meyer ) . |
| 15 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 16 | Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century . |