Example sentences of "[art] ability [to-vb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early models of Campbell 's calculator camera reveal the ability to carry out essential photographic functions such as converting square miles into square kilometres , and cubic feet into cubic metres . |
| 2 | An element of job satisfaction for many may be the absence of coercive pressure from management and the ability to carry out one 's job at one 's own pace , a pace which may be slower than that which management would prefer . |
| 3 | The ability to carry out a good assessment requires the combination of a number of personal skills , and the active use of a large body of knowledge . |
| 4 | The new BARB service offers the agency the ability to carry out a very wide range of detailed analysis — arguably to the point where the analyst becomes totally overloaded with data . |
| 5 | Executive power — the power to set down the broad policies to be followed by the state and the ability to carry out or execute the laws was in the hands of the King , but the means for carrying it out had to be provided by parliament . |
| 6 | She had never found any place in the world intimidating when she was after a story and she had the ability to ferret out facts , an uncanny instinct for the truth . |
| 7 | It combines this wrap-around view with the ability to pick out any detail which might be significant in a duck 's life . |
| 8 | His view is that what the Soviet Union has in small quantities is as good as the technology of the West , but that the country lacks the ability to turn out production volumes . |
| 9 | The main changes included the ability to contract out of SERPS , voluntary membership of occupational schemes , and the availability of personal pensions through a wide range of intermediaries — insurance companies , friendly societies , banks , building societies and unit trust groups . |
| 10 | They are merely one method of making possible the ability to communicate out of which a community can grow . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe Darlington have players with the ability to get out of trouble . |
| 12 | The ability to seek out travel services for the customer even when they do not appear on brochure racks has brought the company a strong following in the town but also , according to manager Sandra Chisholm , from as far as Glasgow . |
| 13 | Austrians emphasize that market coordination is a dynamic process in which entrepreneurship , or the ability to seek out and act upon opportunities for beneficial exchange , plays a crucial role . |
| 14 | And this is one of many ways in which ordinary communication between people depends on our having a very powerful memory , having the ability to look out for situations that we 've been warned about , and to take action in accordance with instructions that we 've been given previously and have stored up . |
| 15 | Successful communication is based upon people 's capacity to interpret prose and in all but the simplest cases this depends on the ability to work out the grammatical relationships between the words within sentences . |
| 16 | Second , that no side had ‘ first-strike capability ’ , that is , the ability to knock out the other side completely in a surprise attack . |
| 17 | Produce pieces of writing in which there is a rudimentary attempt to present simple subject matter in a structured way , eg by means of a title and paragraphs or verses ; in which sentence punctuation ( capital letters , full stops , question marks and exclamation marks ) is generally accurately used ; and in which there is some evidence of an ability to set out and punctuate any direct speech in a way that makes meaning clear to the reader . |
| 18 | An ability to face out or sideways on easy ground must be developed in the interest of speed , but equally you should know instinctively when to turn inwards to get a surer support as the rock angle increases . |