Example sentences of "ability [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical requirements include virtual memory , the inherent ability to connect to distributed network and run two- and three-dimensional graphics applications , 3 to 40 MIPS of integer performance , 1,024 by 1,024 pixel resolution , 14″ , 16″ , 17″ or 19″ monitor , multitasking and a price range of between $3,900 and $100,000 plus . |
| 2 | These needs and facilities are both part of the pedestrian environment , which might be defined as the interface between the walker 's personal ability to cope with environmental challenge , the location and accessibility of destinations , and the characteristics of the environment en route . |
| 3 | The study , which looked at three SSDs in the north-west of England , was initiated after departments expressed concerns about their ability to cope with new remand arrangements under the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 4 | When the interview is simulated in the classroom using pre-prepared videos , cassette recordings or role playing , an exchange of trainees ' reactions , fears and responses to the situation presented can improve an adviser 's ability to cope with real interviewing . |
| 5 | It will be useful , for example , for the school librarian to visit other schools and discuss the uses of the microcomputer and ask questions about its range of software ; its suitability e.g. do teachers and pupils use it ? ; its ability to cope with heavy use ; its reliability as a system — does it break down ? |
| 6 | A similar investigation was carried out with the lexicon used in the current system to determine it 's ability to cope with unseen text . |
| 7 | In the computer models , on the other hand , the selection criterion is not survival , but the ability to appeal to human whim . |
| 8 | Everyone should have equal protection by the law and the ability to appeal against local authority . |
| 9 | The beef herd proved the breed 's ability to thrive on modest feeding and to give high killing-out percentages in all age groups , and gradually the beef traits increased in importance until it became a single-purpose beef breed . |
| 10 | By this stage learners are looking for opportunities to extend their already considerable store of language , to test their ability to retrieve from this store , to improve their fluency and to refine their control . |
| 11 | Finally , appraisal procedures must be established which monitor and enhance the individual 's ability to work to maximum effectiveness . |
| 12 | These are n't really a type of virus ; the name merely describes their extraordinary ability to hide from anti-virus software . |
| 13 | Outside public sector employment , which offers transferable pension rights , occupational pension benefits are maximised by minimal job changing or by an ability to compensate for any loss of pension rights on job change through a better remunerated new job . |
| 14 | Should we really be making judgements about pupils ' ability to relate to each other , and to adults , or even about their skill on the telephone ? |
| 15 | Prestel was launched in 1979 to provide users with instant access to thousands of pages of information and the ability to communicate with other Prestel users and with some of those who provided information for the system . |
| 16 | Nerve cells , unlike other cells , have the ability to communicate with other nerve cells by the use of long thin fibres known as axons and dendrites which extend outwards from the cell body , allowing the cell to influence from 1,000 to 100,000 other nerve cells . |
| 17 | When I suggest that women have a strong ability to communicate with each other and form a collective body , it is not to imply that the individual should lose herself entirely in this . |
| 18 | Approximately 30% of the marks will be for straightforward handling of theory — but additional marks for pass , credit and distinction standard must come from the quality of the candidate 's understanding and ability to communicate in acceptable fashion . |
| 19 | If the distinction between tacit and explicit collusion is to mean anything , it must also be shown that the ability to communicate in some way affects the likely existence and stability of collusion . |
| 20 | JA Surrey KT16 8AJ THE amount paid to the companion by your aunt is in order to achieve an enhanced interest in an asset she already owns , i.e. the ability to sell with vacant possession . |
| 21 | For the unions , the nature of state intervention in railway industrial relations emphasizes the importance of political contacts and the ability to engage in political exchange . |
| 22 | His basic concerns involve the effects computer-use might have in fostering children 's ability to engage in disembedded thinking ; and the possibility that girls might not gain so much benefit from computer-use in school as boys . |
| 23 | In March 1991 it won an important case when the strongly integrationist European Court of Justice condoned Brussels ' ability to rule on public service monopolies without the approval of EC member states , despite the fact that the Court 's principal legal adviser , the Advocate General , called for the Commission 's powers to be restricted under Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 24 | Also new are the M4-S Standard and MS-4 Deluxe , both based on the Gibson M-III rock guitar but sporting hardware from Ned Steinberger : his banjo-style ‘ gearless ’ tuners , his efficiently wobbly ‘ Knife Edge Knut ’ and his ‘ Jam Trem ’ ( a divebombing tool with the ability to lock into non-trem mode , rather like a Wilkinson ) . |
| 25 | Tight binding of E.coli RNA polymerase to the lac promoter was found to be correlated with its poor ability to escape from abortive cycling ( 32 ) . |
| 26 | One of them is that expertise conveys the ability to help with public decision making . |
| 27 | The ability to draw on such knowledge is an essential aspect of discourse interpretation and it is often employed by subjects in the kind of memory experiments which we have just described . |
| 28 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 29 | Now , as to ‘ The History of the product , ’ an ability to retroscend in this fashion will be of inestimable value to you , it will mean that when you are engaged in assessing the demand for a particular product you can look at similar and instantly unpack the portfolio of its genesis . |
| 30 | Ziff ( 1981 ) believes that capacities having an important functional value such as the ability to deal with complex information or achieve a state of heightened awareness are , during pauses in the struggle for existence , exercised in a non-functional manner which maintains and develops their effectiveness . |