Example sentences of "'s ability [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a brilliant display of this team 's ability to cope with the difficulties imposed by introducing a new chassis and engine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is the message that emerges time after time from surveys on Britain 's ability to cope with the demands of Europe post-1992 . |
| 7 | He said the society 's results reflect the North 's ability to cope with the recession . |
| 8 | The formulation is strange , since it suggests that one can measure a person 's ability to conform to the law . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He has not visited the cliff , but questions the Frenchman 's ability to climb at the highest levels . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Limited 's ability to stick to the tarmac , or , more importantly , the areas of tarmac you 've chosen , is simply awesome . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |