Example sentences of "ability [to-vb] [noun pl] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speaker 's ability to plan utterances is not sufficiently good to allow planning and production to co-occur smoothly and without interference ; and so there are periods when production must suffer if planning is to proceed . |
| 2 | The ability to re-cycle metals is fortunately not a property which applies to clay and stone , but they have their own limitations . |
| 3 | The ability to use tools is best documented amongst the primates . |
| 4 | I mean the ability to use computers is with us , how we use them is really up to us . |
| 5 | Newco will have heavy borrowings and a large number of preference shares , which means that its ability to give guarantees is low , and will almost certainly be lower than that of the vendors . |
| 6 | A child 's capacity for abstract reasoning ( for mathematics , say ) increases through puberty while the ability to learn languages is declining . |
| 7 | The ability to alter dividends is said to give companies more freedom relative to the external dependence on banks who may impose unilateral changes in interest rates or loan allocation . |
| 8 | It also has substantial material advantages — the ability to raise loans is greater , the opportunity for setting off and writing off business expenses are more generous and , because tax to be paid at the end of any one financial year is assessed in relation to the previous year 's results , organisations with a growing turnover have a lower effective tax rate than they would if tax were assessed on current activities . |
| 9 | Patients whose ability to take medicines is a critical issue could be encouraged to use the same community pharmacy on each occasion . |
| 10 | The Soviet ability to achieve breakthroughs is often overrated . |