Example sentences of "ability [to-vb] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — John R Hampton may be right to lament the decline in doctors ' abilities to elicit and interpret physical signs , but I believe that he is wrong to conclude that training in the setting of general practice will sound the deathknell of these skills . |
| 2 | Librarians see advantages in tel ms of increased use of resources , increased interest and involvement of pupils and teachers in the library , a chance to identify accurately information needs and an enhancement of pupils ' abilities to locate and use pertinent information sources . |
| 3 | It is an ideal way for less advantaged libraries to develop training programmes , and to acquire confidence in their own ability to plan and execute internal training . |
| 4 | Combined with the invention of the purse-net , a dangerous stage was reached where the ability to find and catch some species threatened to outstrip the ability of fish to maintain viable populations . |
| 5 | It has also shown that they are most effective in situations of crisis because of their ability to initiate and control social interactions . |
| 6 | Smart creation of graphs 20 major chart and graph types , including 3D bar and 3D pie charts , rotation of 3D charts , ability to create and print multi-page presentations , linking of multiple dynamic charts and dynamic worksheet tables into presentation windows it also has the ability to annotate presentations with text , drawn images , lines , arrows , ellipses , bitmaps , or OLE objects . |
| 7 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 8 | The development of logic , the distinction of myth from history , the emergence of scepticism , and the ability to challenge and reinterpret social dogma are all taken by Goody to follow from these initial pronouncements on communication . |
| 9 | One neat feature is the ability to select and analyse specific runs , allowing you to plot your performances on a given course . |
| 10 | ( d ) " the ability to select and organise relevant knowledge … to analyse and answer specific historical questions . " |
| 11 | Or whether mutually to reinforce their ability to perceive and understand this city — two viewpoints yielding a stereoscopic perspective . |
| 12 | Within a humanist perception of language , therefore , was the ability to extend and supplement existing reality and to indicate a higher reality in a perfection phenomenally lost . |
| 13 | Roughly speaking , plain , unemotional , ordered " talking " , which is heavily dependent upon our ability to recognize and encode binary discriminations ( distinctive features in phonology and logical oppositions in argument ) , has been shown to be a function of the left hemisphere of the brain , while emotional responses , which are the consequence of reactions to sensory inputs from outside , are a function of the right hemisphere . |
| 14 | This gives it the ability to read and analyse difficult forms such as facsimile copies and folded or smudged paper , and to learn . |
| 15 | The ability to read and write formal English is often the prerequisite for achievement in education and , in many instances , promotion at work . |
| 16 | She describes ‘ discernment ’ — ‘ the ability to recognise and acknowledge particular strands in a situation ’ — as underlying all stress skills : |
| 17 | In addition , a fourth R could be cited , as Recording , referring to the facility to download software or pages to disk for off-line use and the ability to send and receive electronic mail . |
| 18 | The expansion , which was virtually unchecked until recession bit in the late 1970s , raced ahead of the country 's ability to understand and control industrial pollution . |
| 19 | The aim of the examination is to test the candidate 's ability to understand and write connected English on business topics and in formats usual in business communication ( and , in the case of the case of the candidates whose mother tongue is not English , to confirm the parallel ability to speak English at an equivalent level ) . |
| 20 | The aim is to provide students with the ability to analyse and evaluate selected topics which are related to the analysis of human performance . |
| 21 | the ability to seek and use appropriate knowledge . |
| 22 | Mobility therefore relates to people 's ability to move and to reach desired goals . |
| 23 | Casual labour from East London had shown little evidence of an ability to construct and maintain stable forms of resistance ( this is taken up in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 24 | It will tell us about the individuals ' ability to make and maintain new relationships . |