Example sentences of "skill [coord] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was under test was not my skills or abilities but my moral judgement . |
| 2 | Vested interests have defended the status quo with great skill and determination and they 've had their axes sharpened using er sharpeners energised by the oxygen of Labour 's irresponsible backing off . |
| 3 | Another reason for the special attitude of the courts in employment cases was given by Younger LJ in Attwood v Lamont [ 1920 ] 3 KB 571 : the employer can not prevent the employee from using skill and knowledge once he has left , but he frequently tries to do so . |
| 4 | He had rheumatism and was known to be a bit quick ; tempered and impatient , but even Mother remarked how surprised she was at his skill and patience when it came to doctoring animals . |
| 5 | What he saw was incredible to him : imperfect stones , yes , flawed , sometimes of poor coloration , but cut and set with such skill and ingenuity that their imperfections were disguised . |
| 6 | He needed all his skill and tact if he was going to extricate himself from this situation and spend the night sleeping in his hotel bed , alone . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean all the skill and talent that you ' ve put into it ! |
| 8 | ‘ He 's not as aggressive as he might be but that could come , and he has more skill and speed than someone like John Fashanu , who plays an intimidating game . |
| 9 | It is easy to overlook the range of transferable skills and experiences that one has accumulated in the course of a career and will now stand one in good stead . |
| 10 | To what extent do they appear to preclude you from making use of the skills and knowledge that you have acquired and competing with the people for whom you used to work . |
| 11 | Effective ministry in frontier situations not only requires dedicated skills and energies but it requires us to learn how best to wrestle with the principalities and powers . |
| 12 | Erm and er you also try , so , so really it 's a question of developing your own ideas about what you think you want to explore and the sort of skills and things that you want to try and develop , |
| 13 | the skills and facilities that we |
| 14 | Harwell had superb skills and facilities and it fitted the current zeitgeist that these be applied to the solution of industrial problems on a fee-paying basis . |
| 15 | They build on young people 's skills and confidence so they feel that they have something to offer to the world and to their own community . |
| 16 | There it is maintained that , despite a decade of public discussion on the curriculum and the existence of widespread agreement on its main features , there were significant variations in practice which needed to be eliminated in the interests of equipping all young people ‘ with the knowledge , skills and understandings that they need for adult life and employment ’ . |
| 17 | You have to try and improve trading skills and efficiency and it is vital to maintain organized groups of women and men who are committed to fighting locally and at all levels for ordinary decent decency and simple justice in the way people are treated of course , but we have got also to find ways of getting together to face those problems no one knows how to solve . |
| 18 | They do n't have the special skills and training that you need to carry out working within the railway environment . |
| 19 | In our bilateral aid the main need was for carefully targeted and flexible assistance in the form of advice , skills and training and our response in this area for our bilateral aid was the creation of the know how fund for the former Soviet Union and for central and Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | excellent , scale and ability what we need to agree on is the skills and abilities that we want in there . |
| 21 | Between national curriculum levels and general skills and abilities as it sits at the moment ? |
| 22 | In this environment , students will be given opportunities to realise the need for new skills and abilities and their development will be supported in , what may be at times , personally challenging situations . |
| 23 | ‘ Curricular record ’ is defined as a formal record of a pupil 's academic achievements , his other skills and abilities and his progress in school ( Regulation 4 ) . |