Example sentences of "ability [to-vb] out [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The process of ageing , which involves a gradual deterioration of physical and intellectual ability and loss of acuity of the senses , inevitably results in lessened ability to carry out the many activities involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment .
4 Yet business lobbyists told Mr Chiles that they distrusted the state 's ability to carry out the plan .
5 CALL IN AN ELECTRICIAN if you are in any doubt at all about your ability to carry out the electrical jobs described here .
6 Subsequently qualifications which indicate the holder 's ability to carry out the elements defined in the job description are identified .
7 has a damaging effect on the ES ’ trust and confidence in your ability to carry out the duties for which you are employed .
8 adversely affect your ability to carry out the duties required by the ES ( eg overlap with the time you are required to work for ES or leave you too tired to be able to carry out your ES duties properly ) ; or
9 There are only five exceptions : accusations of a crime punishable by imprisonment , suggestions that the plaintiff carries a contagious disease ; adverse reflections on a person 's ability to carry out an office , business or profession ; slanders on the reputation or credit of tradespeople ; and words imputing unchastity or adultery to a woman or girl .
10 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 .
11 What distinguishes us from Saddam is our superior , perhaps supreme , ability to screen out the death and mutilation .
12 Second , that no side had ‘ first-strike capability ’ , that is , the ability to knock out the other side completely in a surprise attack .
13 Manville had every faith in the Russian 's ability to dig out the vital weakness in Vologsky 's make-up which would turn him into a traitor .
14 Giles had a remarkable ability to bring out the best in his students and juniors , and by conveying his faith in them he gave them faith in themselves .
15 Prof Thomas Gibson : ability to bring out the best in people
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