Example sentences of "capable of [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , some N. battus eggs deposited in the spring are capable of hatching in the autumn of the same year resulting in significant numbers of L3 on the pasture at this time . |
| 2 | Are you capable of sailing in the prevailing conditions ? |
| 3 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 4 | ‘ Boris Nikolayevich … intends to act as resolutely as he showed himself capable of acting in the fateful days of August 1991 , ’ said spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikov , referring to Mr Yeltsin 's role in thwarting a Communist coup . |
| 5 | In all , the search for visual relays working in parallel with the primary cortical visual mechanisms has been disappointing , even though there is good evidence that these areas must be capable of operating in the absence of the visual cortex . |
| 6 | Recently it has been shown that Raman spectra may be obtained from a wide variety of samples using a combination of an interferometer capable of operating in the near-IR region and a near-IR laser . |
| 7 | When the front wheels were no longer capable of pointing in the desired direction of travel , it would launch into a gentle semi-spin if you did not act to salvage the situation . |
| 8 | Western countries should be prepared to open themselves far wider to East European countries that make a real move to democracy and free markets : let the shameful visa queues at western embassies disappear , welcome Gastarbeiter from these countries , open up to any exports deserving East Europeans are capable of selling in the West 's competitive markets . |
| 9 | They too are capable of evolving in the direction of becoming better enemies , in this case enemies of cheetahs . |
| 10 | There was a big rehearsal room for those capable of working in the evening and a nice sitting-room for those who could not . |
| 11 | Within the memory itself there will be a number of chips , each capable of working in the absence of the others , thus employing redundant modularity . |
| 12 | And there are other English players , like Steve McManaman , he believes are capable of playing in the Italian league . |
| 13 | What it may be capable of doing in the living cell whether for good or ill remains to be discovered , ’ |
| 14 | Rainoldes seems to have imagined adult male sexuality not just as anarchic , but as satanically polymorphous , capable of engaging in the forbidden with alarming ease . |
| 15 | Could the future see a species capable of engaging in the defeat of the law of entropy in a final Armageddon ? |