Example sentences of "our ability [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This either indicates the typical ’ lip-service ’ paid to issues of racism , the overriding liberalism , the negation of our abilities to give a contribution , or it show that Black women are not prepared to involve themselves in a reactionary movement which takes no account of our needs . |
| 2 | The emphasis on the need for medical and social assessment ( DHSS , 1988 ) is an attempt to improve our abilities to identify the ‘ high risk ’ case or family ( Parton and Parton , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Of order in the universe ; of our ability to take the raw materials and weave them into a pattern of our choosing . |
| 4 | Your and Mrs Vaughan 's support will strengthen our ability to tackle a whole range of pressing issues . |
| 5 | The apostle Peter comes to grips with this priority structure as he addresses our ability to explain the gospel : ‘ Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 7 | Thus , our intelligence , our ability to draw the correct conclusions from the information provided by our sense organs , must date back to our cave dweller days or earlier . |
| 8 | I am not in fact optimistic about our ability to control the sort of force which is now at large in the world . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ This signal failure of leadership has minimised our influence over our EC partners , weakened our ability to steer the future direction of the Community , and severely reduced the benefits to our people that whole-hearted participation in Europe would undoubtedly bring . ’ |
| 10 | Yet never did we instigate a fracas ; provocation always came from the other fellows , for various reasons ; maybe they did n't like Jews , or as often happened , they simply threw a challenge in order to test our ability to rule the roost . |
| 11 | ‘ Postmodern knowledge ’ , says Jean-François Lyotard , ‘ refines our sensibility to difference and reinforces our ability to tolerate the incommensurable ’ ( Postmodern Condition , p. xxv ) . |
| 12 | At this singularity the laws of science and our ability to predict the future would break down . |
| 13 | I would like to think it 's because we have shown our ability to spend the money well in previous years . ’ |
| 14 | Our ability to negotiate a better deal for our people can only be strengthened by ever greater co-operation with other countries . |
| 15 | In modern linguistics , we are often told of our remarkable ability to construct meaningful sentences which we have never previously heard ; yet this is surely matched by our ability to absorb the social implications of an array of furnishing consisting of a combination which is not only almost certainly in some degree unique , but some of whose basic elements may also be new to us . |
| 16 | The idea was to assess our ability to present a speech , paying close attention to vocabulary , non-verbal communication ( body language and tone of voice ) and keeping a sense of what the audience is thinking . |
| 17 | If this results in objections it may affect our ability to provide a shelter . |
| 18 | Atherstone branch have also just renewed their contract with The Institute of Waste Management in Northampton , which again confirms our ability to provide the highest standard of service . |
| 19 | ‘ If we did not feel 100 per cent positive about our ability to fly the plane safely , we would not put it in the air . ’ |
| 20 | In the course of this study , our understanding of the sources of methane ( particularly of methane in groundwaters ) , our means of identifying these sources , and our ability to model the mechanisms of movement through the ground , have all been found lacking in some important way . |
| 21 | Our ability to gain a better insight into the predatory relationship is made difficult because saurischians could be either herbivores or carnivores . |
| 22 | So we wish therefore to remove this first constraint on our powers and I 'd emphasise again that it is , is our intention to use , it 's not our intention to use the wider powers to increase the risks , it 's simply to improve er , our ability to gain the best returns and satisfy the objectives of the Council . |
| 23 | Then , on February 15th , the attorney-general , Mr Nicholas Lyell , conveniently popped up to say , quite contradictorily , that if one of the offending amendments were carried ‘ it would have no effect on our ability to ratify the treaty ’ . |
| 24 | The aim is to express numbers on a scale of measurement which makes data analysis easier , often by allowing simple models to be fitted , and thus enhancing our ability to understand the data . |
| 25 | Our ability to deliver an effective service is built on four simple principles : |
| 26 | But as a culture , historically , we have placed extraordinary emphasis on our ability to master the unpredictable threats and challenges of the wild world , and there can be no better way of demonstrating our mastery of unruly nature than by eating the bodies of other animals . |
| 27 | But it is an implication of concessive holism that there will be no hard and fast answer to this question ; the reply will depend on our ability to establish the relevant counterfactuals , which will presumably change with our theories about the social world . |
| 28 | Though our modern technology and civilization is based largely upon our ability to harness the electron , conventional physics still has no real perception of what it is we have got our hands on . |
| 29 | I 've never forgotten the lessons of that night : the abseils from doubtful anchors , my refusal to stop when the torch packed up , our failure to coil up the rope properly , and the lack of faith in our ability to survive a bivouac . |
| 30 | I have asked Lord Ferrers to work on this with the Chief Police Officers , Sir George Young at the Department of Environment and Nick Scott at the Department of Social Security to draw up a strong package of measures which can improve our ability to protect the rural public against these parasites . |