Example sentences of "[unc] ability [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The going concern ED proposed that auditors should obtain a statement from the directors confirming their considered view that the company is a going concern ; that , in forming an opinion on whether the company is a going concern , the auditors should look ahead one year from the date of the directors ' approval of the accounts ; and that , even if disclosures in the accounts of any matters giving rise to an uncertainty that could affect the company 's ability to continue as a going concern are adequate , the auditors should draw attention to the matters in their report . |
| 2 | The most significant are that the proposed SAS requires auditors to be active , rather than passive , and to perform procedures specifically designed to identify circumstances which might call into question the appropriateness of the going concern basis ; that the future period which should be considered by both the directors and auditors in assessing the validity of the going concern basis should be extended to one year from the date the accounts are approved by the directors ; and that emphasis is now placed on the need for adequate disclosures in accounts of matters giving rise to inherent uncertainties that affect a company 's ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 3 | It is therefore also important that the final SAS makes clear the degree of assurance that a clean auditors ' report will be expected to provide , with regard to a company 's ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 4 | One Christian contributor writes of this , ‘ It produces a rapid expansion of one 's ability to act from a deeper level of consciousness . |
| 5 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |
| 6 | However , there is also evidence the emergence of serious skill shortages in some occupations which may prejudice the county 's ability to prepare for the longer term challenges of the Tunnel and the Single European Market . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He has not visited the cliff , but questions the Frenchman 's ability to climb at the highest levels . |
| 9 | The deductive/empirical experiment assessed children 's ability to distinguish between the deductive and empirical modes on the basis of linguistic cues provided by the adult . |
| 10 | Its detergent dispenser may be recalcitrant , but observers applaud the Logic 's ability to sprint like an electrified gazelle across washday 's endless savannah . |
| 11 | Despite input from the tactician , David Barnes , the local team led by Rod Davis was always wrong-footed by Gilmour 's ability to get to the left hand side of the course ( favoured all day ) and defend it . |
| 12 | It enhances a pub 's ability to cater for the different and sometimes conflicting activities and tastes of different customers under the same roof , and in so doing it keeps alive the healthy social and age mix that is a traditional hallmark of the true pub . |
| 13 | And there is the nagging doubt that weaknesses in the financial system will hamper the real economy 's ability to pull through the hard days now at hand . |
| 14 | Millwall were unbeaten at home and only the Canaries ' ability to metamorphose into a giant yellow sponge kept Teddy Sheringham and Tony Cascarino soaked in sweat and starved of success . |