Example sentences of "[pron] ability [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She survived unscathed , which she put down to her ability to be assertive . |
| 3 | Their rows centred on his failure to be available when she needed his support rather than her ability to be physically present but absent in every other way . |
| 4 | Her ability to be cold and untouchable seemed to have gone as if it had never been . |
| 5 | Most trainees will be emphatic about their ability to be impartial , unprejudiced , empathetic and to keep confidentiality , but a few hard-hitting video scenes can catch even the most ‘ broadminded ’ trainee off guard . |
| 6 | Indeed far from being fearful of continued public objection , local authorities should be more concerned about their ability to be able to keep up with public demand for calming various residential areas once the ideas take off . |
| 7 | If at conversion Christians castoff their ability to be angry , they would shed the whole panoply of their emotional world : their joy , their love , their sense of wonder and awe . |
| 8 | The EOC also found direct discrimination when managers treated women less favourably than men by making unfounded assumptions about their ability to be mobile . |
| 9 | Specific advice should be included in the Branch handbook and training should be provided in order that managers understand what constitutes less favourable treatment , particularly in respect of the asking of questions at appraisal , at interview or before interview because negative assumptions are made about their ability to be mobile . |
| 10 | continue unabated , fuelled by the fact that assessment of their performance and career prospects will be closely linked to their ability to be published in recognised journals . |
| 11 | The equation of a person 's worth , both morally and socially , with their ability to be eloquent is found iterated both implicitly and explicitly throughout the period . |
| 12 | However , heterologous telomeric DNAs exhibit a broad spectrum of activity in their ability to be recognized as functional telomeres in vivo . |
| 13 | As the example of von Uexkull 's sea-urchin suggests , this is no news to ethologists , who often have behavioural evidence that an animal can perceive motion though they doubt its ability to be aware of detailed shapes . |
| 14 | The SCI chips — made by Vitesse Semiconductor and due to prototype this Autumn — are claimed to deliver a sustained 1Gbps bandwidth between component nodes ; Dolphin highlights its ability to be used both for tightly coupling processors ( up to 1,000 RISCs ) to memory ( up to 100Mb ) and input-output , and for loosely coupling distributed workstations and other subsystems , at backplane bandwidth . |
| 15 | Its ability to be teamed up with Word for Windows to scan text straight into the latter is also very useful , and has proved to be a time saver ( now you know why we like typed letters for the letters page ! ) . |
| 16 | Inflation , especially unanticipated inflation , adversely affects the functions of money by undermining wealth-holders ' confidence in its ability to be used as a medium of exchange and a store of value . |
| 17 | Polypropylene has earned its place as a large volume high growth polymer [ 11 per cent per annum compound for the past give years ] because of its attractive balance of properties , its ability to be processed by a wide variety of techniques , and its competitive economics and cost effectiveness . |
| 18 | Even when the soul man is ‘ hurt ’ , it is only a celebration of his ability to be ‘ touched ’ . |
| 19 | His most important contribution may be his ability to be a traditional and original painter at the same time . |
| 20 | This type of person provides the creative thinking in a team , even if a concern for good ideas overshadows his ability to be sensitive to other people 's needs . |
| 21 | If you ca n't exercise then you will lose all your ability to be a healthy person . |
| 22 | And what do the answers to those questions say about your ability to be your company 's next marketing director , finance director or even chief executive ? |
| 23 | With the exception of epileptics ( see p.5 ) — even those whose condition is being kept well under control by prescribed drugs — there is no way that any other form of medical treatment or medication can affect your ability to be a good hypnotic subject . |
| 24 | It 's to deny us our humanity , our ability to be . |
| 25 | Now the temps an and the two new business people for example have definitely had an impact on our ability to be as productive as you normally expect to be . |