Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the possibility " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most appropriate technology for many people will be one that helps a country to organise a postal system so that stamps are available , to bring radio within everyone 's reach and that holds out the possibility of early telephone links . |
| 2 | It might be thought that the word ‘ ordered ’ ( iussus ) rules out the possibility of interpreting this as a case involving a trust . |
| 3 | But IBM rules out the possibility of taking a majority share or of buying the entire company . ’ |
| 4 | None of these grounds of illegality rules out the possibility that exactly the same decision might be reached even if natural justice were complied with , or all relevant considerations were taken into account , or the authority were to ignore all undue fetters on its discretion . |
| 5 | In effect , this means that the use of feminine forms provides more specific information than the use of masculine forms can be said to provide ; it rules out the possibility of masculine reference , whereas the use of masculine forms does not rule out the possibility of feminine reference . |
| 6 | This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 7 | Similarly , the shortage of suitably qualified priests and religious , rules out the possibility of a chaplain being found in every educational institution where Catholics are studying . |
| 8 | The ending of The Accused , on the other hand , offers up the possibility of change . |
| 9 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 10 | This , in turn , opens up the possibility of a unified account of the world that encompasses not only physical but also mental events . |
| 11 | This is called ‘ consumer choice ’ and it also opens up the possibility of charging for more services . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the new admission that Britain is considering ( forgetting ) about further reprocessing plant opens up the possibility that the temporary store may become a long-term dumping ground for the industry 's most dangerous waste . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In sum , the whole curriculum approach opens up the possibility for special educational provision to become an integral part of the process of developing comprehensive education as a whole . |
| 24 | Being in work , no matter how poor the conditions , opens up the possibility of recruitment into the primary labour market . |
| 25 | This chapter has suggested that in the majority of large public companies the separation of ownership and control is a reality , and that this opens up the possibility that in some of them , subject to the variable constraining influence of market forces , managements will pursue deviant goals and/or shirk . |
| 26 | This theoretical framework opens up the possibility of analysing the process of technical change in a dynamic disequilibrium context and of integrating work in economics , management and technology . |
| 27 | Measurement opens up the possibility of using mathematics in which to state general laws and theories such as the relation between the height of the column of mercury and its temperature . |
| 28 | This is not the only advantage offered by an integrated spatial database for , given appropriate GIS software and hardware that are jointly capable of providing the kind of operations described in the earlier part of this chapter , geographical referencing opens up the possibility of combining cartographic and attribute data in logical ways , such as in determining those areas which possess characteristic A and ( or/not ) characteristic B. |
| 29 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 30 | The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest . |