Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [art] ability [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 2 | The latest boardgame to hit the market , Articulate , requires not only general knowledge but also an ability to verbalise . |
| 3 | For many of the categories of indebted countries , identified in chapter 2 , the continuing debt crisis is probably the greatest single influence on choices of monetary and financial policy and thus the ability to grow . |
| 4 | Simon was not trying to buy the Holy Spirit but rather the ability to impart the Holy Spirit . |
| 5 | The interpretation of culture and even the ability to understand what is happening in the society under scrutiny as well as the need to grapple with political or ethical questions are all endless and fundamental problems of the moment ( Phillips 1973 : 78 ) . |
| 6 | Concepts such as ’ semantically correct ’ and ’ semantically incorrect ’ remain somewhat contentious , and in practice are inessential to the text recognition problem : the measure of success is not found in adherence to some formal semantic proof but simply the ability to choose the same word as a human observer would . |