Example sentences of "a ability [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examining the examination system Candidates sitting the Institute 's exams need more than an ability to memorise the syllabus |
| 2 | In fact the anti-gold mining struggle has shown an ability to utilize a wide variety of cultural weapons in its campaign . |
| 3 | Someone has pointed out that this would require an ability to control the Royal Mail to ensure that letters did not get lost ! |
| 4 | Calculators , on the other hand , are still not entirely approved of by some parents and teachers , even though our experience would suggest that an ability to use a calculator is a far more relevant skill for everyday life than almost any of the pencil-and-paper arithmetic taught in schools . |
| 5 | In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | The skill of writing comprises components which include an ability to hold the pen or pencil , an ability to form letters of the alphabet and to join them into recognisable words and sentences , and so on . |
| 7 | But what we also said tha that 's quite encouraging , John , is that there is an ability to crosscheck the costing that you 've achieved with |
| 8 | an ability to ventilate the lid will help you to control the humidity and therefore reduce the risk of seedlings and cuttings rotting off ; in summer it will help to prevent the propagator overheating . |
| 9 | With an ability to take a hardcore hip hop track and make the curly-permed DJ at the local disco understand it , Cook became the pop rap remix king ; an indispensable link in the chain that brought Brooklyn to Basildon and Basingstoke . |
| 10 | Basil Cottle stands for something very important in , and to , Bristol University : unyielding scholarship , a devotion to excellence in teaching , and a gift for friendship — and an ability to see the funny side of life . |
| 11 | A strong measure of creativity is required , not just an ability to see the obvious . |
| 12 | The success of the kinematics approach thus depends on an ability to define the geometric arrangement of the physical system at desired positions in space . |
| 13 | ‘ They always have an ability to get the best out of the crew on the day . ’ |
| 14 | The strengths that these people show are that they have an ability to combine a sense of concern , with a sense of order and purpose . |
| 15 | They have an ability to combine a sense of concern , with a sense of order and purpose . |
| 16 | An ability to identify the opportunities for saving is essential , coupled with a basic understanding of the regulations governing the appeal process . |
| 17 | The courses are designed to provide the student with spoken and written fluency in the principal language together with an ability to understand the written and spoken forms of the other two Scandinavian languages . |
| 18 | A strong ruler used not only a complex administrative system inherited from his predecessors , but also an ability to keep a significant number of his chief men moderately well-rewarded , or charmed , or cowed . |
| 19 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 20 | Whilst experience of handling data from biological experiments is desirable , an ability to learn a new area of science and to communicate quantitative ideas to a general scientific audience is essential . |
| 21 | Even targets of this order implied an ability to commission a boiler every six days and a turbo-alternator every twelve days for several years : well above the levels ever achieved before in Britain . |
| 22 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |
| 23 | They have developed an ability to provide a chemical service to customers , rather than selling products in a bag . |
| 24 | The accents , plus an ability to smell a dodgy London pint of Tetley 's , confirm that , indeed , Bivouac hail from plain old England , as opposed to the New version over the pond . |
| 25 | After just a week of stroking , Brussels sprouts infested with aphids showed an ability to reduce the pests ' multiplication rate . |