Example sentences of "[unc] ability [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most famous teaming up of the two brothers was in 1973 , with the chart single Frankenstein , a testimony to Johnny 's ability to adapt to a variety of different styles , an ability , in fact , which he insists was born out of necessity … |
| 2 | When he eventually leaves that employer how far can the latter control the ex-employee 's ability to deal with the clients which he brought with him . |
| 3 | The financing of local government is er again circumscribed , local government 's ability to respond to the needs of the community it serves as it and its electors deem appropriate is being curtailed yet again and of course local government is losing its independence to central government and this centralising tendency which this settlement further represents is one of the most pernicious and corrosive characteristics of the modern Conservative party . |
| 4 | The success of these Australian guerrilla companies , with their high standard of individual field craft , their sound leadership deploying platoons with forethought for their mobility , and above all the men 's ability to live off the country while fighting a war of high mobility , had made their campaign in Timor one of the most important of small force operations in World War II . |
| 5 | It was a brilliant display of this team 's ability to cope with the difficulties imposed by introducing a new chassis and engine . |
| 6 | He said the society 's results reflect the North 's ability to cope with the recession . |
| 7 | The tendency to assume that there are only right and wrong answers in mathematics may be limiting children 's ability to cope with the diversity of problems they meet . |
| 8 | This is the message that emerges time after time from surveys on Britain 's ability to cope with the demands of Europe post-1992 . |
| 9 | The Strasbourg disaster rekindled speculation that the sophisticated computerized " fly-by-wire " control system fitted in the A-320 might , in some circumstances , affect a pilot 's ability to cope with an emergency . |
| 10 | The formulation is strange , since it suggests that one can measure a person 's ability to conform to the law . |
| 11 | NHS costs may be kept under control because of both the NHS 's ability to act as a bulk buyer of medicine supplies and the unlikelihood of competitive upward pressure on wage costs for health workers . |
| 12 | Audubon , who had considerable experience of the hardships of field ornithology in the bayous and forests of Louisiana , was particularly sceptical about Gould 's ability to survive in the bush . |
| 13 | The report was compiled in order to assess Britain 's ability to comply with a draft EC directive intended to standardise waste standards throughout Europe . |
| 14 | Provisions not identified below as being required by the Companies Act or as being necessary to ensure a practice 's ability to comply with the Rules are simply suggested by way of guidance ; practitioners should be aware that other approaches may be taken to the matters covered by such provisions . |
| 15 | Provisions not identified below as being required by the Companies Act or as being necessary to ensure a practice 's ability to comply with the Rules are simply suggested by way of guidance ; practitioners should be aware that other approaches may be taken to the matters covered by such provisions . |
| 16 | [ An ] impairment might not diminish a person 's physical or mental capabilities , but could nevertheless substantially limit that person 's ability to work as a result of the negative reactions of others to the impairment … |
| 17 | He is awarded that some caterers are worried about this new stricter temperature ruling but has faith in his staff 's ability to stay within the law . |
| 18 | Is he aware that the Association of County Councils , on which his own county council and Buckinghamshire and many other Conservative county councils are represented — indeed , the association is controlled by the Conservatives — says that the removal of the power to inspect under section 77(3) of the Education Act 1944 will greatly diminish the local authority 's ability to intervene in a school that is falling below standard ? |
| 19 | Although government officials are confident of somehow finding a way next year to pay for the national backbone network , they are sceptical of the LDP 's ability to break through the ceiling on overall spending on science . |
| 20 | The Limited 's ability to stick to the tarmac , or , more importantly , the areas of tarmac you 've chosen , is simply awesome . |
| 21 | A useful guide to the first two is to see what effect a symptom has on the patient 's ability to function as a whole , creative , happy , loving human being , taking into account their normal state of course ! |
| 22 | In psychotic disorder , thinking , emotions , attention and communication can be affected , seriously interfering with the person 's ability to function in a way which might be considered normal . |
| 23 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 24 | It is pitched at a level which is neither simplistic nor dust-dry , reflecting Chris 's ability to communicate in the lecture hall as well as in print . |
| 25 | The 26-year-old 's ability to run with the ball and poach spectacular goals has been one of the major factors behind QPR 's impressive start to the season . |
| 26 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 27 | The women 's ability to contribute towards the cost is assessed and she needs to know at the outset what she will be asked to pay . |
| 28 | Of this , £1 million is a large chunk that will reduce the UK 's ability to contribute to the type of research that led to the discovery of the Z o . |
| 29 | They were a display of one family 's ability to look after the treasure of another family , treasure as represented by one carefully protected , carefully prepared girl . |
| 30 | He told the social work committee that Sheriff Kearney 's report , published last October , had affected Fife 's ability to compete in the jobs market . |