Example sentences of "its ability [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key to Israel 's success , and to a lesser extent Syria 's , had been its ability to prey on the strategic anxieties of its superpower patron . |
| 2 | Results obtained in testing its ability to deal with the recognition problem . |
| 3 | In the speech Gorbachev expressed his personal support for the United Nations , which had ‘ increasingly manifested its ability to act as a unique international centre in the service of peace and security ’ , and repeated his belief that the most important issues that faced the world community were global rather than regional in character . |
| 4 | Francois Heisbourg , the institute 's director , said that growing tensions between different members of the Warsaw Pact are undermining its ability to act as an alliance . |
| 5 | Although the party 's ideological history facilitates its ability to act as an integrative party , it faces an inhibiting structural constraint in its association with trade unions . |
| 6 | The Belfast Harbour Commissioners are confident that during the 1990's the Port of Belfast will remain Ireland 's premier port , largely due to its ability to respond to the challenges presented by changing trading patterns within an economically unified Europe and by its ability to satisfy its customers ' need and demands for an efficient , cost effective service . |
| 7 | The energy behind Earth Lights undoubtedly has electromagnetic properties , but there are other aspects of the energy , such as its ability to respond to the consciousness of the percipients , which suggests something else is involved . |
| 8 | THE Government was urged yesterday to tackle staff shortages and poor morale in Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , as concern grew over its ability to cope with the demands of the Environmental Protection Bill . |
| 9 | The validity of any model of global tectonics must be judged by its ability to account for the distribution and characteristics of these major structural regions . |
| 10 | However its ability to carry through the wider social and economic issues that are now central to its agenda has yet to be proven . |
| 11 | With its livid , dangling wattles and its ability to kill with a glance , the cockatrice was referred to in the Bible as typifying evil . |
| 12 | Until now they have represented a mass of public opinion which is noisy rather than articulate , and more remarkable for its courage than its ability to coalesce as an organised force . |
| 13 | On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 14 | Stanley Mill has survived , largely because of its ability to adapt to the changing needs of the market . |
| 15 | At the end of the day , the right keycard system choice will depend not only on technololgy , its ability to adapt to the specific application and how easy it is to use , but on the reliability and the pricing of the product , and just as important , on the suppliers and their ability to provide international service and support . |
| 16 | Reformers had long argued that the credibility of the legislature in the eyes of the public and its ability to compete with the executive were both weakened by a chaotic Congressional budgetary process . |
| 17 | Mr Hattersley said during the debate that he and Neil Kinnock were more determined than ever to resist pressure for Labour to back PR , because voters would suspect that the party lacked confidence in its ability to win under the present system . |
| 18 | But he would also have concluded that its ability to survive into the next century would depend upon the character and common sense of Prince Charles . |
| 19 | The existence of the SDP has depended on the co-operation of the Liberals and there has always been a large question-mark over its ability to survive as a separate entity . |
| 20 | The Catholic Church in the age of Mother Teresa and Barbara Ward , of Julius Nyerere and Lech Walesa , of Oscar Romero and Pedro Arrupe was a Church at the height of its confidence and its ability to relate to the world in a mood of inspiring solidarity . |