Example sentences of "his ability [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since Mr Brezhnev 's death the Romanian leader has lost his ability to act as an irritant . |
| 2 | His next film is a ‘ character mystery ’ — not a musical — about Weegee , the famous news photographer of the Depression years , named for his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime with a speed which suggested the use of an ouija board . |
| 3 | The new Wisden , published today , confirms his ability to move with the age . |
| 4 | ‘ Representative processes , ’ says Hallowell , ‘ are at the root of Man 's capacity to deal with the abstract qualities of objects and events , his ability to deal with the possible or conceivable , the ideal as well as the actual , the intangible along with the tangible , the absent as well as the present object or event , with fantasy and with reality . |
| 5 | He was pretty confident about his ability to get into the rooms in the first place , Loretta noted . |
| 6 | The Yorkshire-born jockey broke his duck at Yarmouth in 1967 and has never once doubted his ability to compete with the best . |
| 7 | And it was his ability to work with the engineers as much as his speed which decided Frank Williams to sign Hill as partner to No 1 driver Alain Prost . |
| 8 | What made Whitaker ideal for Doctor Who , though , was his ability to write from the heart ; to put into words notions and understandings of wonder . |
| 9 | Despite being on stage for an all-too-brief twenty-five minutes , Mick proved that he has in no way lost touch with his roots and years of playing to huge , stadium-sized audiences has not impaired his ability to communicate with a comparatively ‘ small ’ crowd . |
| 10 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |