Example sentences of "ability [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The teaching has given the pupils the necessary facts but not the help to consolidate understanding in writing ( or indeed in talk ) , nor to master the compositional abilities to realise the understanding successfully . |
| 5 | It is a category that includes both reproductory capabilities and the knowledge and abilities to transform the earth 's resources for use : for acquiring food , for making tools , for processing food , for being fertile , for doing ritual . |
| 6 | It will be seen from this that there are significant differences in terms of individual 's abilities to approach the optimum and to improve with repetition . |
| 7 | The power of the international oligopoly has limited producer countries , abilities to capture a greater share of the total value of the sector . |
| 8 | It is well known in Shetland that the best of the fishing skippers of old had the ability to sense the correct course to steer in fog or darkness , by invoking a sort of ‘ sixth sense ’ , and that it was n't long after the invention of the compass before that ability faded and was lost for ever . |
| 9 | Inevitably this re-opened the question of the nation 's ability to remain a Middle East power , and encouraged more serious consultations with the United States . |
| 10 | It is the object 's relationship to the social group which is crucial , rather than its ability to perform a transformation of nature under the sign of utility . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | In more recent times Sturridge was an innovator of the ‘ Jumbo bat ’ , a much heavier range of bat , which gave the stronger player the ability to hit the ball much further . |
| 13 | Dean Jones lost no time in demonstrating his ability to hit the ball hard and often on his competitive debut for Durham , but the boundaries he scattered around and beyond the ropes during their Sunday League win over Lancashire were no more impressive than the speed with which he hurtled the singles and made ones into twos . |
| 14 | A hundred years before Copernicus published , Nicholas of Cusa had argued that man 's distinctiveness consisted not in his location but in his ability to cultivate a state of learned ignorance . |
| 15 | Climbing , even rock climbing , is a matter of having the physical ability to scale a section of rock , but you 've also got to have it in your mind to work out how you 're going to do it , and have the motivation to push yourself . |
| 16 | This system should not be judged solely on its ability to diagnose the occult primary site correctly ( sensitivity ) but also on its potential to exclude other sites . |
| 17 | The ability to diagnose the disease takes scientists one step closer to controlling , preventing or even curing the condition which steals away the memories of a lifetime . |
| 18 | Professor Foot said : ‘ Laughter and the ability to enjoy a sense of fun is taken as a sign of healthy well-being . |
| 19 | Leading through Chris Bart-Williams , they were foiled by Milford 's extraordinary ability to spot a handball without being able to identify the offender . |
| 20 | Since this news broke , I have been subjected to numerous snide remarks concerning my ability to spot a footballer when I see one . |
| 21 | ‘ Over the years I 've learned that you have this endearing ability to spot a chance to make a profit further than a leopard can spot a limp . |
| 22 | It makes even more precise the ability to spot a sick baby . |
| 23 | Atiyah , op. cit. ( pp. 34–38 ) , referring to the bills of exchange position before the 1882 Act , to ‘ golden handshake ’ transactions and forbearance to sue , and the one-time ability to enforce a promise to pay a statute-barred debt ( abolished by the Limitation Acts ) and to enforce a promise to carry out a promise given for consideration during infancy ( abolished by the Infants Relief Act 1874 ) argues that ‘ … the rule about past consideration is too broadly stated . |
| 24 | StaffWare will be adding some BT-specific features such as the ability to implement a corporate-style graphical user interface and to pick any database of choice . |
| 25 | Regular reports will be made by independent inspectors on the strengths and weaknesses of each school and published tables will give parents the ability to compare the performance of local schools . |
| 26 | In burgh politics the habit of taking quarrels to law made the ability to suspend a legal process or to threaten its resumption a regular tool of the Administration 's local managers . |
| 27 | The enhancements also include the ability to support the lower line speeds — 1,200Kbps to 9,600Kbps — used for wide area network connections in some countries . |
| 28 | To imply that the Kha-Khan 's exchequer was likely to be burdened beyond its ability to support the embassy was nonsense , as they both knew . |
| 29 | Finally , Rawls is only to a limited extent concerned with correcting inequalities in the ability to promote the good which are due to one 's natural endowments ( the difference principle is about social , not natural , primary goods ) . |
| 30 | The defence of any practice is its ability to promote the end ; all means are instrumental . |