Example sentences of "'s ability [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the individual speaker 's ability to carry out successful linguistic " acts of identity " is subject to a number of limitations : We can only behave according to the behavioural patterns of groups we find it desirable to identify with to the extent that : ( i ) we can identify the groups ( ii ) we have both adequate access to the groups and ability to analyse their behavioural patterns ( iii ) the motivation to join the groups is sufficiently powerful , and is either reinforced or reversed by feedback from the groups ( iv ) we have the ability to modify our behaviour ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 182 ) |
| 2 | By late March they were in Bologna , where Wolfgang was put through his paces by the famous theorist Padre Martini , who professed himself amazed at the boy 's ability to work out complex fugues on a brief given subject . |
| 3 | The basis for education 's ability to bring about this process of social reproduction lies in what Bourdieu terms cultural capital . |
| 4 | WorldSource 's success will depend on AT&T 's ability to sign up more partners . |
| 5 | And the tally of crown successes over its opponents far outnumbers its few failures ; Douglases , Crichtons , Livingstones , Erskines , Gordons , Hamiltons and many other members of aristocratic families who lost out to the crown over a huge range of disputes , from the heights of violent conflict to the crown 's ability to beat off rival claimants to lands , would have been astonished by the belief of later historians that they were more powerful than the monarchy . |