Example sentences of "'s ability [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the moment when the promoter has to demonstrate faith in the act 's ability to do good business . |
| 2 | Two features ancillary to his tonal architecture attest Campra 's ability to reconcile musical unity with dramatic purpose . |
| 3 | He thinks the only good reason for enforcing statutes whose wisdom he doubts is to protect the legislature 's ability to coordinate social behaviour . |
| 4 | The patient 's ability to employ syntactic knowledge is impaired — so spontaneous speech is grammatically very simple , or even ungrammatical , and words which are primarily important in establishing grammatical structure ( function words ) are especially affected . |
| 5 | The failure of the Law Society to act effectively in dealing with complaints against a solicitor and respected member of the Council of The Law Society , Mr Glanville Davies , attracted enormous publicity and led to a complete breakdown of public confidence in the Law Society 's ability to regulate professional conduct . |
| 6 | A more satisfactory theory of what determines a country 's ability to carry foreign debt should be developed allowing for interactions between economic growth , political stability and debt-servicing capacity , and distinguishing between permanent and transitory states of the relevant variables . |
| 7 | There probably is no future for a united Yugoslavia , and Marshal Tito 's ability to hold that federation together was a marvellous testimony to his abilities . |
| 8 | Research libraries will face severe economic , space and preservation problems through the 1990s , which are likely to have a particularly adverse effect on the library 's ability to acquire traditional research materials . |
| 9 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |
| 10 | It would be gratifying if the question of the project 's ability to delay institutional care could be approached simply by comparing the length of time spent at home following referral to the psychiatric services by control and action sample clients . |
| 11 | The success of the animal and plant breeders ( which Darwin exploited in his analogy between artificial and natural selection ) confirmed the human race 's ability to manipulate organic Nature for its own ends . |
| 12 | If the absence of active Judicial intervention is to be explained by confidence in the Diet 's ability to represent electoral consensus , we can see how Japan could manage without the fierce watchdog role that the constitution envisaged for the Supreme Court . |
| 13 | Much less well-known but equally exceptional is this fish 's ability to see longer wavelength radiation than we or most other animals can . |
| 14 | At issue is the FBI 's ability to wiretap in future … the FBI is not only asking the industry to dumb down existing software , it wants to prohibit it from developing new technologies that might interfere with the government 's ability to intercept various oral and electronic communications . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps the most significant achievement of the sensori-motor stage is the child 's ability to let one aspect of experience stand for , or represent , another . |
| 16 | Communication skills will be assessed , in particular the recruit 's ability to express complex information ; the panel will attempt to assess the recruit 's numerical ability , whether in previous work experience , paper qualifications or in home budgeting . |
| 17 | How do they develop children 's ability to make effective use of the opportunities for collaboration which the environment provides ? |
| 18 | Anyone not a fool or a maniac should acknowledge Izzy 's ability to make this stuff work ; most people do this sort of thing very badly and so we call ‘ rock ’ inane and hopeless , but Stradlin brings verve and love to his work and the drooling beast is once more revivified . |
| 19 | In the past month , Mrs Aquino 's popularity has declined , and there was growing disenchantment with her government 's ability to provide adequate transport and power , and to contain corruption . |
| 20 | In the past month , Mrs Aquino 's popularity has declined , and there was growing disenchantment with her government 's ability to provide adequate transport and power , and to contain corruption . |
| 21 | ‘ … while there 's a slight question mark over Shine On 's ability to stay this distance and of course it 's a big test for his rider Kitty Connor , who 's having her first ride in a listed race . |
| 22 | Moving into the operating environment , Brown says NT 's suitability as a desktop environment depends on Microsoft 's ability to shrink current RAM and disk space requirement down to something reasonable . |
| 23 | Krall is cautious about Windows Telephony 's ability to win enough industry support to become a standard . |
| 24 | He was also intrigued by the breed 's ability to breed all year round , and to drop rangy lambs that could be taken to 18kg with little risk of over-fatness . |
| 25 | Webb denied the value of adaptability alone in preventing unemployment , for there was no straightforward correlation between education and an individual 's ability to find regular work . |
| 26 | Morag Donaldson ( 1986 ) carried out a study which assessed five and eight-year-old children 's ability to handle intentional mode explanations in an experimental setting . |
| 27 | My own view is that the neuron 's ability to relay selective information to selected zones has greater possibilities than have yet been discovered by neurophysiologists . |
| 28 | Presumably I did hear him right saying that Labour 's spending plans were predicated on assumptions about Labour 's ability to produce economic growth . |
| 29 | The second requires the child to make a verbal response to either a verbal or a non-verbal stimulus and is used as a measure of the child 's ability to produce spoken language . |
| 30 | What has not changed is the industry 's ability to produce good quality coal at an affordable price . ’ |