Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] the possibility " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress will inevitably be slow but the dual-task technique offers the possibility of determining something of the nature of the dynamic interaction between the two hemispheres . |
| 2 | The quantum model in physics contains the possibility that individual quanta can be at different energy levels . |
| 3 | These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one . |
| 4 | As this isolation ends the possibility arises of a fully global economy . |
| 5 | The stipulation of liquidated damages for breach of a particular term contradicts the possibility of that term being a condition ; therefore , terms backed by liquidated damages will usually not be regarded as conditions , unless the scale of the breach is considerable . |
| 6 | In some of his subsequent books this apparently effortless fluency denies the Possibility of conflict . |
| 7 | This chapter explores the possibility of defining these assembly relationships in such ways as to provide a desired function . |
| 8 | In contrast , a pluralistic perspective on organizations recognizes the possibility of conflict between human needs and formal structures , between different types of work group and between what is ‘ dysfunctional ’ for the formal goals of the organization but functional for other interests — the ‘ bureaucratic personalities ’ seeking protection in rule-following ( Merton 1940 ) , the specialists seeking to further their own interests though ‘ goal displacement ’ ( Selznick 1949 ) and the workers and managers using bureaucratic rules in their own interests ( Gouldner 1954 ) . |
| 9 | Some sclerites , however , recall brachiopods , and comparison of shell ultrastructure supports the possibility that tommotiids and brachiopods are related . |
| 10 | However , whilst other approaches offer superficial change , Disability arts carries the possibility of triggering the kind of fundamental change in mainstream arts that is vital for true integration . |
| 11 | In particular , purchase allows the possibility ( which borrowing rules out ) of in-house use of materials , which may be quite heavy ( although Brown also comments that in some university libraries 70% of the stock has remained unused over a three-year period ) . |
| 12 | At this point Sartre confronts the possibility that the whole project of the Critique , stated so confidently on its very first page — ‘ it must be proved that a negation of a negation can be an affirmation ’ ( I , 15 ) — may break down . |
| 13 | A university based institute offers the possibility for greater objectivity and a greater preoccupation with overall purposes than may be possible in a hard pressed Ministry , together with the potential ( and it remains a potential ) for linking research findings with the practical problems of curriculum design . |
| 14 | Every man , woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection ; it rests with each one of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort . |
| 15 | Genealogy develops the possibility broached in the Archaeology that in a general history different significances can be accorded to events , depending on ‘ their correlation with other previous or simultaneous events , discursive or not ’ . |
| 16 | I would also like to erm ask that erm that we do have everything we can to ensure that where this council has the possibility as erm landowner or property owner or whatever that we prevent or certainly discourage the use of such property for car boot sales and I had in mind sales that are taking place based on erm education property and in the case of Hatfield we were able to persuade the relevant authorities to er cause the car boot sale to cease but that particular car boot sale was causing great damage to the legitimate traders in both the Hatfield market and the Hatfield town centre . |
| 17 | If repeated pouchitis occurs the possibility of underlying Crohn 's disease should be seriously explored . |
| 18 | Although litigation in support of such a claim has by no means been abandoned , the switch to a more overt political campaign raises the possibility of developing a more co-ordinated test-case strategy — in place of the ad hoc response previously resorted to — of the type developed in pursuit of civil right advocacy in the.USA , and welfare rights advocacy both there and in the UK , to try to influence the course of social change . |
| 19 | Akpata does acknowledge that the greater playing and coaching knowledge in the more established rugby countries lessens the possibility of such injuries , and that socialised medicine and/or established insurance coverage reduced the material hardship to those injured in the Home Countries . |
| 20 | The nineteen eighty Employment Act gives the possibility to the employers through the U K to de-recognize legitimate trade unions and these trade union re representatives has to be the most damaging piece of government legislation of the last two decades . |
| 21 | As this suggests , the appeal of such a tune could be seen as a ‘ leftover ’ , an ‘ echo ’ of a bygone era of craftsmanship ; and Adorno recognizes the possibility of this — indeed , he acknowledges that it is precisely in popular music that the category of the ‘ idea ’ ( a relatively independent , memorable element within a totality , a phenomenon more or less abandoned by ‘ serious ’ music ) lives on , and with it a sense of creative spontaneity ( Adorno 1976 : 34–7 ) . |
| 22 | The Act recognizes the possibility that back-up copies may have been made . |
| 23 | The strengthening of seminar groups raises the possibility that these multidisciplinary programmes might facilitate the spread of paradigm shifts in the earth sciences ; and should also be used as an underpinning structure for project-based research in applied earth sciences . |
| 24 | The decision raises the possibility of the party 's defeat in parliament and early elections . |
| 25 | The log-hyperbolic distribution offers the possibility of a range of curve fittings , one limiting case of which is the log-normal distribution . |
| 26 | A theoretical issue arising from this aim concerns the possibility of extending the applicability of theory on self-worth motivation from its original concern with university students to include pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties . |
| 27 | This same complexity and ambiguity creates the possibility of literary criticism as an organised enterprise . |
| 28 | Neither of these alternatives excludes the possibility that a change in associability might also play a part on generating latent inhibition . |
| 29 | The investigation explores the possibility of using probate inventories to cast light on this and related questions . |
| 30 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |