Example sentences of "capable [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already it had whipped the shallow water inside the reef into short seas , white-capped and capable of stopping the big cat in its tracks if he had tried sailing for the far point and Belpan City . |
| 2 | This is most apparent in the precious opal which is capable of displaying a veritable kaleidoscope of colours . |
| 3 | This short , steel , truncheon-like weapon was capable of meeting a full-blown attack from a sword-wielding samurai . |
| 4 | Whatever the reason for the review , the purchasing function will be required to examine alternative sources of supply , or alternative products capable of meeting an existing or predictable need . |
| 5 | These systems have proved capable of meeting the specified operational requirements on a variety of fires in different categories of combustibles . |
| 6 | We shall show that , contrary to popular opinion , the ‘ kids ’ are knowledgeable about their situation and the meaning of their actions , and are capable of deploying a high standard of theorizing about their activities . |
| 7 | The existence of a paradigm capable of supporting a normal science tradition is the characteristic that distinguishes science from non-science , according to Kuhn . |
| 8 | The answer is that probably all shapes are capable of supporting a successful but restricted marine community . |
| 9 | The overall objective of the CADDIS programme is to produce a fully operational KBS capable of supporting a significant diagnostic area whilst aiding in the reduction of engineering operating costs and gaining improvements in quality , efficiency and safety . |
| 10 | The resulting floods cover more than one third of the countryside , and the silt-laden water renders the land beneath and around it very fertile and capable of supporting a large agricultural population . |
| 11 | As the BAA computer in use in September 1977 was not capable of supporting an on-line system , it was decided to use a computer bureau . |
| 12 | It may be the case that we are capable of deriving a specific conclusion ( 7c ) from specific premises ( 7a ) and ( 7b ) , via deductive inference , but we are rarely asked to do so in the everyday discourse we encounter . |
| 13 | From Nur ed-Din Saladin learned to appreciate the importance of jihad , the Holy War against the unbelievers , as the powerful religious force which alone was capable of uniting the divided Muslim world . |
| 14 | At the heart of the LNU , [ writes its historian , was ] … a faith in British public opinion as a force capable of moulding a new world order . |
| 15 | All species are capable of causing a severe enteritis including Oe. venulosum , which does not provoke nodule formation . |
| 16 | Just one question was asked to each of the chosen seven : How heavily influenced are you by the sentiments of groups like The Smiths and do you think that a record like that is capable of causing a drastic change in your attitudes to a subject like vegetarianism ? |
| 17 | This is not only the case of small linguistic communities vulnerable to quite modest demographic changes , such as the thinly-populated hills and coasts of Welsh-speaking Wales , or Estonia , whose 1m or so Estonian speakers would in any case place it at the very lower limit of populations capable of maintaining a modern linguistic culture at all levels . |
| 18 | This , then , defines the extent of the stamina which your training programme must develop so that you are capable of maintaining a relentless and powerful onslaught for the whole bout . |
| 19 | On the one hand , the public sector institutions were thought of as being capable of maintaining the subject-specific national peer review system for themselves . |
| 20 | According to the report , the proposed staffing structures for the projected new unitary authorities do not appear to be capable of maintaining the current level and quality of services and management practices . |
| 21 | Europe is capable of maintaining an effective common security within those structures , and with the additional guarantee of US and Canadian assistance in the event of war . |
| 22 | This , as argued here before , is the one question capable of splitting the Tory Party , at least to the extent of creating factions with a passionate attachment to their prejudices , and no great reluctance to insist on them even at the cost of deep party division . |
| 23 | This firm wrote — ‘ The land is eminently sited for a golf course as it is nicely undulating and the soil dry , and with care and attention should be capable of producing a first-class turf . ’ |
| 24 | International tourism is now a highly sophisticated and competitive industry and the review needs to create a mechanism capable of producing a co-ordinated overall strategy for the development of tourism in Scotland . |
| 25 | However , Moncada et al ( 1976a ) demonstrated that endothelial cells were capable of producing a potent anti-platelet aggregatory agent and it was subsequently suggested that continuous production of this substance , now called prostacyclin , explained the apparent protection against adhesion and aggregation conferred by the normal endothelium ( Moncada & Vane , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | However there is bound to be a ‘ margin for error ’ capable of producing a misleading trend . |
| 27 | Not only may she give birth to as many as nine babies at a time , but she may have as many as seventeen litters in a breeding season and she is thus capable of producing a hundred and fifty young a year . |
| 28 | I 'd say there 's a real lack of good-quality , basic , no-frills bass guitars at the moment , basses which are capable of producing a warm , user-friendly , real wood tone . |
| 29 | The Minoans were capable of producing a large surplus of olive oil which could have been exported ; some of the oil filling the store-rooms of the Knossos Labyrinth at the time of the 1380 BC fire may have been awaiting export . |
| 30 | Detectives announced yesterday they had uncovered a drug-making factory in London 's Highgate capable of producing a massive quantity of tablets . |