Example sentences of "ability to make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Brook 's central achievement in the television version is to seize on the screen 's ability to make a seamless connection between two senses of ‘ illusion ’ , the philosopher 's and the magician 's . |
| 2 | At times they can be nightmarish — screaming and hollering through Side One of ‘ Nurse ’ — and elsewhere they have the ability to make a laid-back sound without ending up horizontal like Teenage Fanclub . |
| 3 | Whilst no-one would wish to deny landowners the ability to make a living , it must be accepted that in many circumstances , such as Glenbrittle , more appropriate ( or even no ) development should take place . |
| 4 | This will have two major benefits : first , the amount of data transferred can be considerably reduced ; second , the presentation of any of the necessary information will greatly increase the designer 's ability to make a correct assessment of the design problem . |
| 5 | If I could have asked for a gift , I suppose it would have been the ability to make a living as a musician . |
| 6 | But father had no faith in my ability to make a go of anything . ’ |
| 7 | The pragmatic reason is the constraint on our ability to make a precise forecast of what will be required . |
| 8 | All of this in no way affects the ability to make a contract for the sale of future goods . |
| 9 | This business is encumbered by a large portfolio of undeveloped residential land which will dilute its ability to make a reasonable return on its assets for some time to come . |
| 10 | Thus , in a thoroughly typical way , man , who is not endowed with an instinctive love of animals or care for them , achieves the ability to make a success of animal-husbandry as a form of economic life by channelling his otherwise rampant aggressiveness back against himself as a force of conscience which frequently expresses itself in pastoral cultures as a vengeful and recriminating god of the sky . |
| 11 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
| 12 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 13 | The great cathedrals bore witness to a towering vision of transcendence yet , at the same time , expressed a confidence in the human ability to make the great leap necessary to bridge the gulf between heaven and earth . |
| 14 | They graded each household on the basis of the ability of the mother to recall the Seven Points to Remember and her ability to make the lobon-gur solution correctly . |
| 15 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 16 | In practice , of course , the actual amount we lend will depend on your ability to make the regular monthly repayments without putting a strain on your finances . |
| 17 | But more striking still is his ability to make the voice switch from aria to narration , at almost any moment , in such a way that we hardly notice it , because the orchestra takes over the melody from the singer . |
| 18 | Growth may mean cash flow for new ventures and the ability to make the occasional mistake . |
| 19 | The proposed research is designed to provide information on young children 's ability to make the transition from the concrete-based mathematics of the primary school to the type of more formal mathematics which is common in the secondary school . |
| 20 | In Gillick terms , the ability to make an informed request assumes the child to be old enough to make at least that decision for himself . |
| 21 | Plasmid genes can determine a wide variety of bacterial properties , including resistance to antibacterial substances , ability to make an antibiotic or toxin , or to metabolise the sugar sucrose . |
| 22 | What distinguishes W. from them , and what with all respect I do not think that Thorpe J. took sufficiently into account ( perhaps because the point did not emerge as clearly before him as it did before us ) , is that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 23 | At the hearing before us it was conceded , in answer to a question put by the court , that it is a feature of anorexia nervosa that it is capable of destroying the ability to make an informed choice . |
| 24 | Where a child 's mental condition renders her competent on some days but irrational on others she will lack the ability to make an informed decision ( Re R ( a Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 31 July ) . |
| 25 | I do n't really see how erm it is going to in any way weaken people 's ability to make an effective er objection . |