Example sentences of "capable of make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you believe yourself to be simply an animal without an immortal soul but you also believe that you are capable of making moral judgements , you will need to ask yourself whether cats and mice and birds and insects are also capable of making moral judgements . |
| 2 | If you believe yourself to be simply an animal without an immortal soul but you also believe that you are capable of making moral judgements , you will need to ask yourself whether cats and mice and birds and insects are also capable of making moral judgements . |
| 3 | To do so it is necessary to examine the origins of our literary expectations which so frequently assume that the best literary experience deals with individuals capable of making moral distinctions and to question the pejorative critical formulations which tend to accompany assessments of characters as vehicles for ideas : caricature , static , incompletely realised , and so on . |
| 4 | D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK . |
| 5 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 6 | Labour MP Chris Mullin , another leader in the Guildford Four case , said : ‘ He was one of the few judges willing to face the possibility that the system to which he had devoted his life was capable of making serious mistakes . ’ |
| 7 | In less demanding times , it is often argued , they should be capable of making healthy returns . |
| 8 | Ph D research may not in itself produce the major theoretical advances in science , but the personal developmental effects may , if carried out in centres of excellence , combine with good training to produce scientists capable of making such advances . |
| 9 | Whether more and better schooling would in the short run produce a larger group of efficient entrepreneurs , capable of making individual businesses more competitive , is an open question . |
| 10 | MDU members felt that Batmönh was the only leader capable of making responsible decisions and begged him not to resign the presidency . |
| 11 | With a world-class attack of Bedser , Laker and Lock , and then Laoder , with McIntyre behind the stumps , and with a batting line-up — Barrington , May , Eric Bedser , Constable , Dave Fletcher , Tom Clark — capable of making swift runs , and with Surridge himself , Lock and Stewart foremost in a ring of rapacious close catchers , Surrey were irresistible . |
| 12 | computers , ie electronic machines capable of making large sets of calculations very rapidly ; |
| 13 | They are also capable of making high quality picture transfers because of their advanced circuitry and mechanical design . |
| 14 | An edit is therefore made at the start of each shot , and this means that the record machine should be capable of making clean edits , in other words , that it should have the backspace facility ( see page 35 ) . |
| 15 | He is sufficiently aware of his own failings to know that satyāgrahis are capable of making erroneous decisions . |
| 16 | Gandhi admits that satyāgrahis are capable of making erroneous decisions and that he himself made a Himalayan miscalculation in instituting mass satyāgraha in Ahmedabad without teaching the people involved in the movement the strict conditions and necessary limitations of satyāgraha . |
| 17 | I think education committee is quite capable of making those kinds of decisions , and members , erm , that er , are representing rural areas are allowed to come along to education committee , and I think that 's perhaps the better way to , to go along those lines . |
| 18 | Politicians , however , were quite capable of making any assistance look somewhat larger than life and thus attempt to reap the last ounce of voter gratitude for their services . |
| 19 | ‘ Even when we were at school together , you used to lord it over the rest of us , and would never admit that you were capable of making any mistakes . |
| 20 | Yet , when competing interests are at stake it is quite capable of making pragmatic choices . |
| 21 | She was n't even capable of making cold decisions any more . |
| 22 | At the root of this divide , as Pugin and Dickens both perceive , lie mechanical production and the profit motive , both of which are reflected in many details of the drawing , and are summed up in the subject of the lecture , advertised by the ‘ Mechanicks Institute ’ , ‘ on a new designing machine capable of making 1000 changes with the same set of ornaments ’ . |