Example sentences of "ability [to-vb] [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability to write clearly and well is a tool of the trade and a very necessary one , but it is the idea which you have that will make your advertising stand out from the rest . |
| 2 | Personal and interpersonal skills : the ability to work independently and cooperatively with others and to use self-awareness and social awareness to guide action . |
| 3 | The ability to work independently and co-operatively with others and to use self-awareness and social awareness to guide action . |
| 4 | In 1987 , when she entered the House of Commons as the MP for Norfolk South West — a safe-as-houses rural Tory seat — she was already 46 , with none of the outward trappings of a high-flier , merely a proven ability to work swiftly and effectively and an unthreatening charm . |
| 5 | My ability to be part of a greater dissenting whole is balanced by my ability to stand apart and hence to differentiate within the group . |
| 6 | The assumption was also that the ability to communicate confidently and accurately , with a fuller understanding of the processes of communication , equips graduates better for the demands of social and professional life than traditional university teaching methods in language . |
| 7 | Clearly the degree of definition we can go to is only one character , but we have drop down menus we have the ability to move pop up windows and dialog boxes , the ability to scroll horizontally and vertically within those windows , and the ability to emulate the use of a mouse by the use of arrow keys and the numeric keypad on an ordinary character terminal . |
| 8 | An essential skill of the technical manager is his ability to recognize technically or commercially significant results . |
| 9 | The key to the Commodore 's success was their ability to run reliably and quickly for the full 621 miles . |
| 10 | general intelligence such as ability to reason quickly and accurately |
| 11 | ability to respond positively and quickly to change ; |
| 12 | Careers in computing are for people with common sense , the ability to think clearly and logically , the capacity to adapt readily to change , and the skill to communicate and work closely with others . |
| 13 | That apart , we should bear in mind that roses vary greatly in their ability to bloom more or less continuously after the first flush . |
| 14 | A government 's ability to act coherently and consistently with a predetermined economic strategy , is circumscribed by its dual political role : as both judge and advocate . |