Example sentences of "[noun] was its ability " in BNC.

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1 Hence , the significance of the High Authority was its ability to influence the national coal and steel industries without being countermanded by national governments .
2 Perhaps its most obvious success was its ability to prioritise community care among those local councils , health authorities , and FHSAs which historically had no inter-agency collaboration .
3 He said the key to SmithKline 's success was its ability to market and sell brands and cash in on the potential of new products .
4 The result is very different from the ideas expressed in chapter 6 , where it was suggested that one of the many results of the rise of material culture as a mode of cultural form was its ability to multiply and keep apart a plethora of hierarchies and diverse spheres .
5 As I pointed out above , the essence of the ego 's operations was its ability to redeploy and redirect the malleable drives of the id .
6 In claiming one of the qualities of language was its ability to supplement the phenomenal reality of this world , the Renaissance also acknowledged the volatility of language .
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