Example sentences of "[art] ability [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were both about seven years old , and she had not yet developed the ability to pronounce the sounds ‘ ck ’ and ‘ th ’ . |
| 2 | Now he says , the only skill a would-be villain needs is the ability to press a button . |
| 3 | For those who need the ability to carry the phone with them wherever they go , it is also available with an optional transmobile kit that turns it into a transportable cellphone . |
| 4 | Pupils develop the ability to negotiate a search strategy for computerized information retrieval both as individuals and as members of a group . |
| 5 | And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again . |
| 6 | Numeracy : the ability to use a range of arithmetical and basic statistical techniques to reach conclusions in practical situations . |
| 7 | The ability to use a range of arithmetical and basic statistical techniques to reach conclusions in practical situations . |
| 8 | There is no reason why the ability to use a washing-machine or a pressure cooker should be limited to one person per household ! |
| 9 | Technique , first of all , is the ability to use a stroke in the simplest way so as to achieve the best stroke . |
| 10 | A rates reduction for a certain period is inadequate to compensate for the great disruption that was caused to people seeking to make a living in that area — people who do not have the wherewithal or the ability to use the court system against the Minister . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many people in a management position maybe using P Cs on their desk , I mean those move more and more into the organization as people work with spreadsheet people work with electronic mail and so on and so forth , and the ability to use the P C as their terminal , their window into the accounting application , but secondly they have these tools such as spreadsheets which again are able to directly access the database and the accounting data maintained within it . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The ability to predict the behaviour of fluid flow in process plant empowers the process engineer to ask ‘ What if ? ’ |
| 17 | Also vital is the ability to create a key disk , which you can use to boot from should you lose the real key . |
| 18 | With or without words , it has the ability to create an atmosphere , to evoke memories , and to enable worshippers to receive from God and to respond to him . |
| 19 | It is clear that , on the most fundamental level , the ability to substitute a thought conveyed in linguistic terms for an action or a thing is an absolutely basic ingredient of the ego 's functioning : it is the key to the ego 's ability to distance itself from the immediate demands of the id and its drives and to evolve higher , more abstract thought-processes than those available to an animal , no matter how intelligent , which lacks the power of speech . |
| 20 | An ensign , however , might find the next step a little harder , while command of a company was rarely to be had without the ability to purchase the commission of a holder of a captaincy or very strong political interest to secure the place in an expanding army in a new battalion . |
| 21 | the ability to utilize the oxygen . |
| 22 | Despite its recent upgrades to include support for the IBM AT , fast colour monitors and the ability to set the default colours of each accessory window Spotlight lags behind SideKick on friendliness and ease of use . |
| 23 | Drawings can be resized , flipped horizontally or vertically , stretched , compressed or rotated , and a useful feature is the ability to set the cursor to move only horizontally or vertically in order to draw straight lines . |
| 24 | Essences of chamomile and thyme , for instance , are credited with the ability to stimulate the production of white blood cells which help in our fight against disease . |
| 25 | The other was trying to find a mechanism to sell more. , Another example of the ability to see the wood from the trees can be drawn from the time he was asked to take charge of Esso 's marine operations . |
| 26 | And she had lost the ability to see the world without being aware of being aware of it . |
| 27 | Now , with the proposed acquisition of CGI , IBM is effectively saying that despite its vast army of surplus employees , it ca n't find 4,000 among with the skills , or the ability to acquire the skills to be found in an unexceptional middle-ranking software and computer services company — and the move is hardly a morale-booster for all the people within IBM that ply their trade in software and services . |
| 28 | With the ability to style the award to each country 's particular needs , Nestlé Foodservice in the UK recognised the opportunity to establish a competition here specially designed to encourage high standards for catering students training to enter the industry . |
| 29 | ‘ Telekinetic is the ability to cause the movement of a body caused by thought or willpower without the application of a physical force … ’ |
| 30 | A literal interpretation of section 8 might suggest that the ability to plead the jus tertii provides the defendant with a defence , but it is submitted that in such a case the provisions of section 7 preserve the common law rule that a claimant relying on a possessory interest may recover the full value of the thing converted . |