Example sentences of "ability to create " in BNC.
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| 1 | In devising policies to ensure national security with minimal loss of independence in the post-imperial era , successive Secretaries of State for Defence and their principal military advisers , the Chiefs of Staff , have had to grapple with three dominant factors : a growing Soviet military threat ; a decline in Britain 's ability to create wealth until the very recent Thatcher revolution ; and an accelerating rate of technological change . |
| 2 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 3 | Quicker response times , once needs had been identified , and the ability to create a better working environment were pinpointed as improving life in school generally . |
| 4 | Also , since to a large extent the promise of Nazi solutions was false and depended upon the Nazi ability to create the problems it intended to resolve by force , matters in Danzig had to move much more slowly because the city was subject to massive foreign observation through the League of Nations . |
| 5 | What it may have sacrificed along the way is the user 's ability to create new sounds from scratch , though you can still edit existing ones . |
| 6 | Solos also create tension and release , depending on the soloist 's ability to create motion over the chord changes via his/her improvising . |
| 7 | Although greater attention tends to be lavished upon Leo Fender 's 6-string designs , in the time between the releases of his Telecaster and Stratocaster , Leo demonstrated his ability to create without precedent , inventing from scratch the electric bass guitar . |
| 8 | A major contribution to public awareness of the modern kite has come from exceptional kite flyers with artistic ability to create multi-coloured artforms . |
| 9 | Underlying all four scenarios is a pessimistic view of the economy 's ability to create jobs at a fast enough rate to match the growth in productivity brought about by new technology . |
| 10 | Cryla Flow from Daler-Rowney and Brera Extrafine Acrylic from Osborne & Butler , although in tubes , fall into this category because , coupled with their ability to create quite tactile effects straight from the tube , they are fluid and thin well for airbrush use . |
| 11 | Arts of colour and harmony ; the ability to create beauty in the environment around you . |
| 12 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 13 | Lothlórien has won many hearts , and even the most censorious of Tolkien 's critics have accordingly been ready to grant him the ability to create nice settings . |
| 14 | In this exciting , optimistic approach it is important to have the ability to create pictures of what could happen in the future — ideal solutions and potential achievement . |
| 15 | ‘ We are continuing to move aggressively into these areas while maintaining a sharp focus on our unique ability to create value for our customers by integrating the industry 's widest and most competitive choices of services , products and technologies . |
| 16 | The specifications will support toolkits that include , for instance , the ability to create different look and feels , such as OSF/Motif , Windows or Open Look . |
| 17 | Also vital is the ability to create a key disk , which you can use to boot from should you lose the real key . |
| 18 | The Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne is giving the denizens of the south coast an opportunity to experience the start bleakness of the northern territories so empathically visualised by the unique and eccentric rent-collector with his visionary eye and ability to create beauty out of mean streets and the world of factories and warehouses . |
| 19 | What they did n't realize was that for me , women in the end have everything because they have the ability to create life . |
| 20 | This chapter encourages a similar degree of growth and awareness in your sexuality and your ability to create and to sustain good sexual relations with others . |
| 21 | Francis Bacon , who drank free at the Colony Room in its early days in exchange for introducing rich punters , has remarked on Muriel 's ‘ tremendous ability to create an atmosphere of ease ’ . |
| 22 | What makes people effective in organizations is the ability to create a whole set of backers and supporters , specifically for projects of innovative activities , that helps lend the power necessary to vitalize those activities . |
| 23 | Once the ability to create symbolic signals and rearrange them was in place , individuals that accomplished this more effectively might well have been at an advantage over those who did it less effectively in terms of all the benefits that come from co-operation . |
| 24 | In other words the justification for corporate enterprise lies in its ability to create wealth against any given background distribution . |
| 25 | But Horn had the sound , the remarkable ability to create epic spaces in ordinary songs . |
| 26 | With or without words , it has the ability to create an atmosphere , to evoke memories , and to enable worshippers to receive from God and to respond to him . |
| 27 | The dividing line which separates true desktop publishing from other forms of electronic publishing is the ability to create the basic elements , assemble them electronically and print the final result all from the same system . |
| 28 | The ability to create printed copies of diagrams that appear on a computer screen is an essential requirement of many serious users . |
| 29 | They do n't realize it 's an investment in our economy , in individuals and developing erm our ability to create wealth , so twelve billion cost in their mind , I could tell you from someone who 's directly involved in a s er obtained training for my er staff members at work . |
| 30 | The main benefit areas in enterprises which have embarked upon computerised payroll and personnel information are : ( i ) Better personnel management/career planning/training Reduced attrition in key skill areas Matching of people requirements and availability Reduced recruiting costs Reduced training costs ( ii ) Ability to set headcount targets and control to monthly control numbers Reduced cost of people Productivity gains ( iii ) Ability to create computerised model of company payroll including job levels , skill levels , merit targets , headcounts , promotions , overtime , bonuses , shift allowance etc. etc. for use in wage budgeting/bargaining . |