Example sentences of "capable [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Folly was in no mood to have her character analysed — and she knew that once her mother started on her favourite hobby-horse she was quite capable for going on for hours . |
| 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 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 . |
| 4 | AQRO1 is a new reverse-osmosis system from Aquatechnics ( UK ) Ltd , capable of removing up to 95% of all contaminants from tapwater — up to 35 US gallons per day . |
| 5 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 6 | Announced were : a new , and supposedly high-performant and OLTP friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with backup , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 7 | Announced were a new , and supposedly high-performant and transaction processing-friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with back-up , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 8 | First you dug a shallow grave capable of holding up to seven corpses at a time . |
| 9 | Bath do not have a Willie Ofahengaue to launch those killer moves from the back row , but with Barnes , Guscott and Swift they do have a midfield and a right wing fully capable of cashing in on the Campese option . |
| 10 | And last night , with his big service really back in the groove , looked well capable of moving back from his present lowly ranking of 15th to the top ten next year . |
| 11 | The phase-locked-loop circuit therefore must be capable of operating down to frequencies below f1 . |
| 12 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 13 | It is an entirely ‘ hands off ’ method of filtration capable of filtering up to six fryers without moving from fryer to fryer . |
| 14 | Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) . |
| 15 | The shoes and socks might be on the floor if the patient is capable of reaching down for them . |
| 16 | Initial ICD systems were capable of delivering up to four 25–30 J countershocks between a coiled spring electrode ( to maximise surface area ) placed at the superior vena cava/right atrium ( SVC-RA ) junction and a mesh patch electrode placed over the cardiac apex by thoracotomy . |
| 17 | In all , over 300 tons of stores will be delivered into Safra this way , with individual aircraft capable of dispatching up to twenty-four one-ton containers per sortie . |
| 18 | The BMW 525i is 16% more powerful than its predecessor and capable of pushing up to a speed of 143 mph . |
| 19 | In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight . |
| 20 | ( Although these lines are capable of carrying up to 60 000 passengers per hour in one direction . ) |
| 21 | The traditional ready-mixed trucks are capable of carrying up to 6m 3 of concrete at a time . |
| 22 | Roman had said half an hour and he was quite capable of walking in on her if she was late . |
| 23 | They see the war as an unequal contest between a 30-nation coalition and a lone Arab country , the purpose of which was to destroy the only Arab state capable of standing up to Israel . |
| 24 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 25 | And it is no bad idea to choose someone not too distant from oneself , especially if you hope to create a detective capable of standing up to a whole series of books . |
| 26 | As the leavening of hardened veterans became sparser and sparser , so the pathetic eighteen-year-olds fresh from the parade grounds in the Fatherland showed themselves less and less capable of standing up to the remorseless demands of the Verdun fighting . |
| 27 | I can assure you she 's more than capable of standing up for herself . ’ |
| 28 | ( a ) a watch ( showing the same time as the examination room clock ! ) ( b ) a stop-watch capable of registering up to 30 minutes ( c ) several sharpened pencils , both hard and soft ( 2Bs should always be carried and harder ones can be used for more delicate sketching ) ( d ) a bunch of coloured pencils or coloured ball-point pens ( e ) a pencil sharpener ( f ) a pen with which you are familiar and which is comfortable to the hand . |
| 29 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 30 | 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 . |