Example sentences of "[adv prt] the possibility [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not yet written off the possibility of putting his ideas on a ‘ four-eyes basis ’ — a meeting of just two people — to Thatcher and Bush . |
| 2 | This , in turn , opens up the possibility of a unified account of the world that encompasses not only physical but also mental events . |
| 3 | Leicester went into the game inspired by four wins in five games , a run that had opened up the possibility of a hat-trick of promotion successes for manager Brian Little after taking Darlington from the Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in the last two seasons . |
| 4 | She also delivered her own populist riposte , opening up the possibility of a referendum on the issue of the introduction of a single European currency . |
| 5 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 6 | The agricultural improvements resulting from drainage did open up the possibility of betterment for the small man , as well as for the great landowners . |
| 7 | This is called ‘ consumer choice ’ and it also opens up the possibility of charging for more services . |
| 8 | The criterion-basis of the new examination seemed to open up the possibility of an assessment system that would be public , open , and uniform , yet applicable to virtually all pupils in school , whatever their ability . |
| 9 | In the infrared there are two wavelengths , at 3 and 6 , with extremely high water absorption , coupled with good transmission through fibre optics , and FELs open up the possibility of using a tunable laser operating in a pulsed mode in these regions , thus minimising tissue damage . |
| 10 | It is important to believe that you have acquired most of your ways of behaving because that opens up the possibility of behaviour being malleable rather than something fixed and unchanging . |
| 11 | It also remains stable when cooked , which opens up the possibility of combining it with Ruby and other new products in the Staley portfolio to create diet markets in areas aspartame is unable to enter — jam , baked beans , canned fruit and vegetables , soft drinks concentrates , desserts and cakes . |
| 12 | The TGV Nord will be linked to the rest of the high speed network by a new line skirting Paris which will open up the possibility of a five hour journey from London to Lyons and a seven hour journey to Marseilles . |
| 13 | In 1771 the completion of the Bromberg Canal had linked the Vistula with the Oder and Berlin ; the Dniepr-Bug Canal and the Dniepr-Niemen Canal ( 1775–84 ) opened up the possibility of river trade as far south as Kiew and the Black Sea . |
| 14 | This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date . |
| 15 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 16 | However , the fact that the ‘ soft left ’ has lost even the illusion that it runs Labour ( it lost the reality years ago ) opens up the possibility of realignment within the party . |
| 17 | If the performance can be staged specially for video , this opens up the possibility of bringing in extra lamps and interrupting the action at agreed points to shift the lighting round to suit the camera . |
| 18 | If the marker uses semi-standard annotations ( e.g. ‘ Style-sheet not used : … ‘ ) , this opens up the possibility of writing a checking program that analyses the annotations in some marked work and checks whether the mark suggested by the annotations is seriously out of line with the given mark . |
| 19 | Every time the child makes demands the parent provides a retort and opens up the possibility of more interaction about the demand . |
| 20 | The second order signification system opens up the possibility of an endless layer of significatory systems each aspiring to a larger context from which meaningfulness is derived . |
| 21 | Murphy rejects the first , accepts the second and does not actually consider the third at all ! in fact it is probably the key , since in an earlier part of his discussion he opens up the possibility of interpreting not only into ASL ( or BSL ) but also into a manual English form . |
| 22 | Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services . |
| 23 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 24 | It also means that if difference in its sense of non-identity sets up the possibility of history , then difference in its sense of delay means also that it can never be finally concluded , for such deferral will always inhibit closure . |
| 25 | ‘ To open up the possibility of independence there 's only one party that is interested in independence , and that 's the Scottish National Party , ’ he says . |
| 26 | Being in work , no matter how poor the conditions , opens up the possibility of recruitment into the primary labour market . |
| 27 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 28 | but this would open up the possibility of governments manipulating the voucher system to encourage some courses and discourage others . |
| 29 | The residual swells coming over the reef were causing a moderate surf on the beach : I needed to reconnoitre , weighing up the possibility of swamping before taking the children in . |
| 30 | Preston 's Rule helped the Zeeman Effect become an important tool in spectrum analysis , and opened up the possibility of quantum physics . |