Example sentences of "[noun pl] capable of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |