Example sentences of "capable [prep] [verb] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | A window box is more than capable of supplying you with some of the flowers you may want to press , and you can buy other flowers from a florist to supplement what you grow yourself . |
| 2 | ‘ I came to my senses , ’ she said , economising with the truth until she felt more capable of handling it with any degree of calm . |
| 3 | ‘ Ten per cent of all plants are capable of leaving you with a red itchy rash or skin swelling , ’ adds Steven Wright . |
| 4 | Once this idea is accepted in principle , it remains to ask at what stage a grasp of the mutual dependence between social theory and social science might be capable of helping us with the problem of holism . |
| 5 | The historian and jurist Boris Chicherin , who was predisposed to like him , believed that Alexander had been denied " an upbringing capable of providing him with guidelines in the precarious circumstances in which he found himself " . |
| 6 | Study of the distribution of the British population has to be based largely on the census , an amazingly rich and flexible source of data but capable of providing us with only occasional , if regular , views of what is happening . |