Example sentences of "ability [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite losing so heavily , Edinburgh tried hard to play enterprisingly and in scrum-half Crombie , possess a player with the ability to perform at the highest level . |
| 2 | If there are doubts about the search firm 's ability to work at a senior level , say to find a chief executive , the client may well invite two or three firms in to pitch competitively and see who has the best overall track record and appears most attractive and experienced to the Board . |
| 3 | I very much hope that we will soon move forward to see permanence units which employ staff equally for their ability to work at getting a child back with natural families as for their skills in working with substitute new families . |
| 4 | A hired platform tower makes the work safer , but if you have any doubts about your ability to work at heights , it would be better to call in a guttering contractor to do the job for you . |
| 5 | The ability to communicate at all levels , and to retain the confidence of your clients is vital ; you have to work with each other , so this confidence must exist and must override any personality clashes . |
| 6 | All you need is an open , enquiring mind and the ability to wonder at the fascinating world of wildlife . |
| 7 | There exists considerable variation within species in this ability to grow at chilling ( 0-10°C ) temperatures . |
| 8 | At grade C the next requirement is that the candidate should be able ‘ to show an ability to look at events and issues from the perspective of other people in the past ; to understand the importance of looking for motives ’ . |
| 9 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 10 | The flexibility of views is another plus point for BOP , with the ability to look at the aircraft from almost any internal or external position and angle . |
| 11 | They begin to doubt their ability to stick at a relationship . ’ |
| 12 | Not too great a challenge right now , but a development programme to build up confidence , the ability to play at the highest level . |
| 13 | With the preparation unquestionably right , therefore , the question was , ‘ could Forget demonstrate the big heart and the ability to play at his best at the right time ? ’ |
| 14 | One of the advantages of a religious education is the ability to identify at least the better-known texts of scripture and this was one which it needed no effort of memory to recall . |
| 15 | He has not visited the cliff , but questions the Frenchman 's ability to climb at the highest levels . |
| 16 | Some industry pundits predict that NT will usurp Unix and OS/2 to become the server operating system of choice , especially as it will offer the ability to run at least some applications designed for OS/2 or Unix . |
| 17 | Whereas in the classic Italian historical novel , Manzoni 's The Betrothed ( 1827 ) , much admired by Eco , the omniscience of the author consists in his ability to probe at will into the psychology of his characters and , at the same time , to link this to broad historical movements and even some sense of a providential ‘ plot ’ in history , in Eco it is closer to the power of the master craftsman who can make what he will with the materials to hand , and unmake it too . |
| 18 | In the poem you are about to hear , the famous poet , William Wordsworth tells us that the day we lose the ability to marvel at something as wonderful as a rainbow , we lose something very important . |
| 19 | His next film is a ‘ character mystery ’ — not a musical — about Weegee , the famous news photographer of the Depression years , named for his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime with a speed which suggested the use of an ouija board . |
| 20 | ‘ Not at all ! ’ he said , and had the grace to flush a little ; she even had a fleeting suspicion that he enjoyed the ability to flush at will . |
| 21 | At first , he doubted his ability to succeed at his self-appointed task , which seemed ‘ utterly formidable , completely ludicrous ’ . |
| 22 | It drowned out her ability to think clearly — in fact , her ability to think at all ! |
| 23 | And that , inevitably , casts doubts about their ability to survive at a higher level . |
| 24 | Banker Alan Clarke , who has spent years working in America , says : ‘ The American women I have been out with have always been successful and good-looking but they do n't have the ability to laugh at themselves . |
| 25 | But at least we 've still got the ability to laugh at ourselves , and face our critics with a smile . |
| 26 | But there 's one thing blatantly missing in the majority of our top telly dramas the ability to laugh at ourselves and some of our predicaments . |
| 27 | The ability to laugh at themselves was never more evident as the three took their audience on a comic tour of Jewish life as we know it today with a smattering of politics , anti-semitism and Zionism thrown in for good measure . |
| 28 | Again , Palin 's natural humour and ability to laugh at a situation is never far away , but I ca n't shake the feeling that we 've seen it all before somewhere . |
| 29 | The intention had been a fairly short , impressive strike which ended on a note of strength and with the obvious ability to resume at a later date should the government drag its feet on terrorism and law and order . |
| 30 | This experience has left me with a love of the East and an ability to feel at home there which has been an immense help in my business life . |