Example sentences of "'s ability [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the moment when the promoter has to demonstrate faith in the act 's ability to do good business . |
| 2 | The learner 's ability to do this quickly and effectively from an early stage is obviously an important feature of language growth . |
| 3 | Many people admitted to hospital will still be able to protect themselves from most hazards but it is the responsibility of the nurse to assess the patient 's ability to do this . |
| 4 | The fundamental ethogenic hypothesis that links acting and accounting is the idea that an individual 's ability to do either depends upon his stock of social knowledge . |
| 5 | We believe that the computer 's ability to generate quasi-random numbers is educationally most important . |
| 6 | Two features ancillary to his tonal architecture attest Campra 's ability to reconcile musical unity with dramatic purpose . |
| 7 | He thinks the only good reason for enforcing statutes whose wisdom he doubts is to protect the legislature 's ability to coordinate social behaviour . |
| 8 | While the current agreement does not cover sales of the resultant kit , Ionica managing director Nigel Playford obviously has sees that as the next move : he cites Northern 's ability to exploit overseas markets through its international support and distribution operations as ‘ key factors ’ for choosing the Canadian manufacturer . |
| 9 | At the same time necessary , but expensive , investment on plant and equipment was lacking , and the firm 's ability to remain competitive was severely hampered . |
| 10 | An editorial in the Catholic Herald and Standard on 25 May — it is distributed in Ireland as The Standard — criticized the Irish bishops ' apparently low esteem of their laity 's ability to remain constant in their marriages . |
| 11 | The panel will try to assess the recruit 's ability to remain impartial and courteous even under pressure and their ability to keep any strong opinions they may have from influencing the advice process . |
| 12 | But the social-security surplus is having the opposite of its intended effect : in helping the government to evade cutting the deficit , it is reducing national savings , and thereby reducing the country 's ability to support future pensioners rather than increasing it . |
| 13 | The patient 's ability to employ syntactic knowledge is impaired — so spontaneous speech is grammatically very simple , or even ungrammatical , and words which are primarily important in establishing grammatical structure ( function words ) are especially affected . |
| 14 | A great deal has been written , in the last few months , about the Institute 's ability to straddle two horses at the same time : can it serve the public interest while serving members ' interests ? |
| 15 | The failure of the Law Society to act effectively in dealing with complaints against a solicitor and respected member of the Council of The Law Society , Mr Glanville Davies , attracted enormous publicity and led to a complete breakdown of public confidence in the Law Society 's ability to regulate professional conduct . |
| 16 | A more satisfactory theory of what determines a country 's ability to carry foreign debt should be developed allowing for interactions between economic growth , political stability and debt-servicing capacity , and distinguishing between permanent and transitory states of the relevant variables . |
| 17 | There probably is no future for a united Yugoslavia , and Marshal Tito 's ability to hold that federation together was a marvellous testimony to his abilities . |
| 18 | He had confidence in Timman 's ability to hold this theoretically drawn endgame , but tested him for four hours on Monday before agreeing to share the point . |
| 19 | Research libraries will face severe economic , space and preservation problems through the 1990s , which are likely to have a particularly adverse effect on the library 's ability to acquire traditional research materials . |
| 20 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |
| 21 | The young infant 's ability to detect changing temporal and spatial events |
| 22 | A solicitor 's ability to give impartial and disinterested advice is a fundamental element of his or her relationship with you , the client . |
| 23 | It would be gratifying if the question of the project 's ability to delay institutional care could be approached simply by comparing the length of time spent at home following referral to the psychiatric services by control and action sample clients . |
| 24 | The success of the animal and plant breeders ( which Darwin exploited in his analogy between artificial and natural selection ) confirmed the human race 's ability to manipulate organic Nature for its own ends . |
| 25 | Opposite The Indian elephant 's ability to manipulate heavy objects has long been exploited by man . |
| 26 | Most country risk analysts regard the balance of payments as the most relevant economic statement for assessing a country 's ability to service existing ( and future ) external debt . |
| 27 | If the absence of active Judicial intervention is to be explained by confidence in the Diet 's ability to represent electoral consensus , we can see how Japan could manage without the fierce watchdog role that the constitution envisaged for the Supreme Court . |
| 28 | Ill health can reduce the individual 's ability to move due to motor or nervous problems . |
| 29 | Much less well-known but equally exceptional is this fish 's ability to see longer wavelength radiation than we or most other animals can . |
| 30 | Comprehension depends upon the reader 's ability to remember all the words in the sentence , and to integrate their meanings . |