Example sentences of "[pron] ability [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remain confident about my ability to do the business at Premier League level , and suddenly I 've got the chance to prove this self-belief is not misplaced . |
| 2 | I have always put it down to my ability to understand the subject |
| 3 | There are some remarkable verbal correspondences between the Interludium and Dame Sirith , such as the clerk 's plea to the girl to " " mend mode " " ( I. 25 ) , appearing in Dame Sirith as " " Amend mod " ( DS. 113 ) , and in the denial by Mome Elwis ( the Interludium 's counterpart to Dame Sirith ) of her ability to perform the tricks the clerk requires : ( Interludium ) ( " A son ! |
| 4 | Her ability to capture the humour which is too often missing in children 's material has made her a firm favourite with children 's book publishers alike . |
| 5 | Her ability to capture the humour which is too often missing in children 's material has made her a firm favourite with children 's book publishers alike . |
| 6 | But their ability to detect the feelings of others was close to infallible . |
| 7 | That tigers have a sense of smell is demonstrated by their ability to detect the scent-mark of other tigers and particularly of females in season . |
| 8 | Lashley , for his part , showed that surgical damage to parts of the brains of rats could alter the types of movements they would make to negotiate a maze without disrupting their ability to reach the goal . |
| 9 | The box terrapins are so called because of their ability to close the undershell or plastron at both front and back . |
| 10 | The places where living things live , the ways that they live and the relationships between them , crucially depend upon their ability to acquire the materials they need to keep themselves intact . |
| 11 | Consequently , the fate of children 's contributions sometimes had less to do with their quality than with their ability to sustain the teacher 's pre-existing intentions for the session as a whole . |
| 12 | The importance of such figures in terms of their ability to carry the message of Marxism to working people is suggested by Neruda 's account of how , travelling the nitrate region of Chile as a senator in 1945 , ‘ at hundreds of meetings , all very far away from each other , I heard a constant plea : that I should read my poems . |
| 13 | Joanne was impressed with their ability to formulate the rule for themselves and felt that since they understood what they were doing there was a better chance of retention . |
| 14 | The consumers of this architecture , the council tenants , have been notoriously restricted in their ability to transform the façade of these dwellings . |
| 15 | You may also hear polymers described as cationic , amphoteric polymers in their Energance range for permed hair give added resilience and suppleness whilst FreeStyle Mousse for Sensitive Hair , £1.89/100ml , contains cationic polymers for their ability to hold the hair in place . |
| 16 | The psychological well being of the victims and their ability to put the crime behind them is a very important part of their needs . |
| 17 | Arts advisers recounted the personal effects of the decline in their numbers , in particular on their ability to monitor the arts work within schools and ( where they exist ) the work of the professional development teachers . |
| 18 | New headteachers have limitations on their ability to manipulate the administration in County Hall , or to conduct a delicate personal conversation with a depressed and withdrawn head of department . |
| 19 | What turns political policies into vote-winners is their ability to affect the lives of large numbers of people in an important way . |
| 20 | They compared groups of virgins , non-contraceptors , contraceptors and pregnant girls on their ability to anticipate the consequences of actions , to generate solutions and plan steps to implement them , in a variety of hypothetical problems unrelated to contraception . |
| 21 | Both sides will to their ability support the process of security and co-operation in Europe on the basis of the [ 1975 ] Helsinki Final Act … particularly through the establishment of permanent institutions and bodies . |
| 22 | What he was denying was their ability to achieve the outcomes to which the opportunities for mutually advantageous trade clearly pointed . |
| 23 | But they are far from equal in their ability to achieve the outcome they want . |
| 24 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 25 | So , I 'm sure members of this Committee have heard this on several occasions as we 've introduced the system , but we have had to put in a fairly complex and detailed system of assessing people 's needs , producing care packages to meet those needs , offering choice to those people , and responding to that choice , then doing what the D S S used to do , I E , a financial assessment of their ability to meet the costs of that care , and settling our contribution , and we 're involved therefore in contracting with the independent sector for purchase of that care , and with the collection of contributions from those individuals , with increasing numbers and increasing complexity . |
| 26 | These shortages will effectively restrict their ability to meet the demand for their products or services . |
| 27 | Patients with ischaemic heart disease , epilepsy or non-hypoglycaemia related seizure disorder , uncontrolled hypertension , or unstable proliferative retinopathy , and those taking drugs that might interfere with autonomic or cognitive function or their ability to complete the study were excluded . |
| 28 | However , it is clear that the high levels of stress they reported experiencing did not have disastrous effects on their ability to recall the event . |
| 29 | A sample of bats is released into a darkened room containing obstacles and their ability to avoid the obstacles measured in some way . |
| 30 | Indeed , apparently traditional flail-threshing barns continued to be built throughout the nineteenth century because of their ability to house the threshing machine as well as the crops . |