Example sentences of "the ability use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the discovery of surface dyslexia , it became clear that there should also exist another form of acquired dyslexia in which the ability to use assembled phonology was lost , while the ability to read a word via addressed phonology was intact . |
| 2 | Kuypers then started a long series of collaborative studies in which injuries to some of these connections in the monkey 's brain were correlated with the defects they produced in performance of movements ; the poising of an arm , for instance , to carry out an operation with the fingers could be dissociated from the ability to use the fingers skilfully . |
| 3 | So organisms that developed the ability to use oxygen in this way — that is , to practise aerobic respiration — quickly became dominant . |
| 4 | The effectiveness of talking and listening is determined not only by the ability to use speech appropriately , but also by the ability to listen actively . |
| 5 | the ability to use the written word . |
| 6 | There is no reason why the ability to use a washing-machine or a pressure cooker should be limited to one person per household ! |
| 7 | The question then is , how can we continue to induce both the internalization of language as a resource and the ability to use it appropriately ? |
| 8 | The official report on the 1977 survey , for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System , concluded from analysis of the awareness and experience of some 2,500 shoppers that ‘ the ability to use percentage rates to calculate dollar finance charges remains relatively uncommon , . |
| 9 | You lose 18 inches of height , and the ability to use small footholds . |
| 10 | While it may be true that , in speaking , children frequently express in words underlying conceptual distinctions , a number of researchers have suggested that the ability to use language to communicate needs , interests and desires to other people presupposes another , rather different , set of developmental abilities . |
| 11 | These people are not ‘ different ’ — they are the same as you and I , except that they have lost the ability to use their legs and have to rely on a wheelchair to get about . |
| 12 | The ability to use appropriate communication skills in relation to patients/clients , relatives , and other members of the care team . |
| 13 | The ability to use tools is best documented amongst the primates . |
| 14 | Technique , first of all , is the ability to use a stroke in the simplest way so as to achieve the best stroke . |
| 15 | The basic vocabulary of around 350 signs can be combined in sentences as the child develops the ability to use and understand signs . |
| 16 | Equipped with this rule and with knowledge of what are important events , the animal seems to be well set up to acquire the ability to use initially meaningless environmental cues as predictors of what will happen , and initially haphazard acts as instruments for controlling the environment . |
| 17 | Using a combination of Top-End working with the NCR Comten Communications Processor , customers gain the ability to use their in-place 3270 terminal networks , many of which are huge , to switch between IBM 3270 applications on the SNA host and block mode applications on the Unix host . |
| 18 | Core to the strategy is the ability to use multiple operating systems and IBM is believed to be developing a new version of AIX/ESA that will run on both the RS/6000 workstations and highly-parallel servers . |
| 19 | The five-year-olds in her experiment showed not only the ability to use causal connectives in the intentional mode , but also the ability to use linguistic expressions which refer to intentions , such as wanted to and was going to . |
| 20 | The five-year-olds in her experiment showed not only the ability to use causal connectives in the intentional mode , but also the ability to use linguistic expressions which refer to intentions , such as wanted to and was going to . |
| 21 | One needs the basic skills of research , including the ability to use the full resources of a research collection . |
| 22 | The ability to use an organized collection of materials , including an understanding of the existence of subject arrangement ( though not necessarily the full details of any one such arrangement , such as the Dewey classification ) , and the ability to " browse skilfully " . |
| 23 | The ability to use library catalogues , both subject and author , including the important ability to articulate one 's subject interest in specific terms and to be aware of possible synonyms and related subjects . |
| 24 | The ability to use relevant equipment , such as viewers , projectors , players , recorders and headphones . |
| 25 | It would be no good putting together a menu that required certain equipment to be used and staff did n't have the ability to use it . |
| 26 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 27 | His father wore a cloak of hyrax skins which he received along with other tools of the trade — pebbles , containers and more important , the ability to use numbers to foretell the future . |
| 28 | The honeybee shares the ability to use the sun as a compass with a wide range of animals , including ants , sandhoppers , many fish and birds . |
| 29 | Obviously , if all security interests were possessory it would make secured borrowing virtually impossible as a debtor would be deprived of the ability to use the assets subject to the security in the course of business ( but English law has for long recognised non-possessory security interests ) . |
| 30 | It was the absence of the ability to use the book debts in the normal course of business that deprived the charge of the character of being floating . |