Example sentences of "[is] capable [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 2 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 3 | The shoes and socks might be on the floor if the patient is capable of reaching down for them . |
| 4 | It is thought that the head secretes a substance which is capable of breaking down the outer layer of the ovum . |
| 5 | Thus what we should be looking for is a system of screening that is capable of picking out expeditiously all cases that require testing and not just a sample . |
| 6 | For the Collector knew that he had to have earth as a cushion against the enemy cannons ; brickwork or masonry splinters or cracks , wood is useless ; only earth is capable of gulping down cannon balls without distress . |
| 7 | The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile . |
| 8 | Now , if a medicine is given to a healthy person and it causes them to produce a particular reaction , a set of symptoms , then these symptoms are the healing response that this particular medicine is capable of bringing about . |
| 9 | It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms . |
| 10 | The problem with this reasoning is that even if we accept the narrow definition of freedom on which it relies , a system of private property , and in particular private ownership of productive assets , is not the only property system that is capable of bringing about the required dispersal of control over material goods . |
| 11 | A pit of this sort is capable of catching up a ferret from either direction . |
| 12 | He told Selina : ‘ When I find somebody who is capable of taking on all the duties of a queen , it wo n't matter whether she is Royal , aristocratic or a commoner . |
| 13 | This is partly due to the fact that many significant computational questions can be pursued quite independently of hardware-considerations , but is also due to the fact that a ‘ general-purpose ’ machine is precisely one whose hardware is capable of carrying out indefinitely many different types of computation . |
| 14 | Ideational apraxia is seen when a patient can not carry out a complex sequence of movements , even though he is capable of carrying out each movement individually . |
| 15 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 16 | No , honestly , I mean to say , he is capable of bending down ! ’ |
| 17 | Stigma make a very good 50 mm , f 3.5 lens with a full macro facility , which is capable of focusing down to one inch and giving one to one magnification . |
| 18 | From the behavioural point of view , the principal male characteristic is sadistic sexual egoism , since is it clear that only the male who is capable of driving off his rivals can hold on to the females of the breeding group . |
| 19 | Some Obligation bounced back from a season in the doldrums with a five-length win at Hereford last month and is capable of following up . |
| 20 | Unlike its predecessors , Warrior is capable of keeping up with a Main Battle Tank across country |
| 21 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |