The phrase "a half capable of" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is partially capable of performing a function, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The device is a half capable of completing the task efficiently."
Alternatives: "partially capable of" or "somewhat capable of".
England do not have a centre-half capable of carrying the ball out of defence and it showed; in fact there were times when even if they had, the list of options open to play the ball was badly limited.
Wasps boss Dai Young admits the Premiership club will struggle to find a fly-half capable of replacing injured Scotland international Ruaridh Jackson.
I suspect he doubted that his brother, who was always more fully submerged in a New Labour project from which Ed always felt at half-a-remove, was capable of making a break.
Only a small percentage (fewer than 300 species) are venomous, and of those only about half are capable of inflicting a lethal bite.
To this end, we found that a substantial number of mouse L1 elements contain altered transcription factor YY1 binding sites on their promoter sequences that are required for transcriptional initiation, suggesting that only a half of L1 elements are capable of being transcriptionally active.
Although plans are being made to save almost a third of the buildings, and almost half are capable of economic re-use, in 17% per cent of cases the owner is considered the main problem, often refusing either to repair or sell.
Perretta suggested that Ajavon and Prince, who scored 14 of her 19 points in the first half, were capable of shooting even more 3-pointers.
Neither the N-terminal or C-terminal half was capable of rescuing microtubule organisation defects (Fig 3B and C).
Samuel Beckett once referred to a favourite rugby fly-half as "capable of genius when the light is dying".
"It's going to be an incredibly difficult test but confidence is a massive component in a rugby player's mind". Talking of massive, the Lions can only hope they unearth a forward capable of making half the impact Rocky Elsom has done for Leinster.
