Example sentences of "possibility of [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Reagan forces were also alert to the possibilities of using administrative discretion as a means of policy change . |
| 2 | ‘ We are looking at the possibilities of using other Guinness commercials which we can edit or modify using local models , ’ says , the Guinness brand manager at PTGI . |
| 3 | The advent of the single European market has encouraged the construction corporations of the EC to evaluate the possibilities of entering foreign European markets . |
| 4 | The comradeship , energy and commitment of the core of the Working Party , comprising as it did a lot of very different people , was an example of the possibilities of uniting diverse interests and oppressions to the mutual advantage of all concerned , including management . |
| 5 | Through the work of contemporary feminist artists , theorists and psychoanalysts like Laura Mulvey or Nini Herman , we are recognising the possibilities of re-reading these old Greek myths , like that of Pandora and her ‘ box/vase ’ ( the question of curiosity and sexuality ) , Demeter and Persephone ( the problem of mother and daughter separation ) . |
| 6 | Unlike the Caribou , NCA were busy studying possibilities of converting these machines to turboprop power prior to sale onto the civilian market . |
| 7 | The learning programme and learning tasks ( possibilities of adapting these to the needs gauged , so that learning can take place and the therapeutic potential of the curriculum be utilised ( no matter how nationally prescribed ) . |
| 8 | Urban road construction took a back seat as new interest was shown in restrictions on existing road usage , possibilities of upgrading public transport ( as suggested by the introduction of the metro for Tyne-Wear ) , and policies on subsidized fares . |
| 9 | When looking at a narrative design , the possibilities of obtaining different perspectives are especially significant : it is precisely the lack of a wide border which would have made the story of the Dido and Aeneas mosaic , from Low Ham , Som. , so hard to follow . |
| 10 | The possibilities of employing one discourse as a metaphor for another are first explored in Out . |
| 11 | After delivering his message of support to the organic movement at Cirencester , he held a seminar at Kensington Palace to air the issues , and he and John Higgs subsequently went down to Elm Farm to investigate the possibilities of employing organic methods on the home farm . |
| 12 | The Foundation 's Annual Report for 1946 outlined its policy on the aged poor : ‘ As machines replace muscles as the motive force , the possibilities of extending useful employment could bring new purpose and new hope to those who have reluctantly accustomed themselves to being a burden ’ ( p. 47 ) In that year the Foundation founded the Nuffield Research Unit into Problems of Ageing , at the University of Cambridge , with the purpose of studying ‘ those changes of human performance in middle and old age likely to have a bearing upon capacity for work in industry ’ ( Nuffield Foundation 1953b : 160 ) , a ten-year project . |
| 13 | Danger , as an experience which especially enlivens awareness and is unpleasant only in relation to consequences , is especially rich in possibilities of becoming enjoyable . |
| 14 | She examines the connection between the curriculum and the deviance of boy and girl pupils and looks at the possibilities of combating sexist curricula . |
| 15 | This month we 're going to start exploring the possibilities of superimposing pentatonic scales over any chord derived from a particular key . |
| 16 | Trainee dealers at some firms quickly developed a personal interest in stocks and shares , based on the new found possibilities of making quick money for themselves . |
| 17 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 18 | While stating in paragraph fourteen that development plans should make no reference to the possibility of allowing other development in exceptional circumstances , nowhere in the P P G does it suggest that the authority should exclude the possibility that very special circumstances could justify an exception to be made . |
| 19 | I said that once the process of privatisation had been completed we would publish the figure for the total proceeds , and also that I would reconsider the possibility of publishing individual sale proceeds . |
| 20 | Would you entertain the possibility of undertaking such a venture again ? ’ |
| 21 | There is also the future possibility of building some of the elements of the European convention on human rights into specific treaty additions of the European Community . |
| 22 | One of the fear-filled fantasies that many people have about modern biology — genetic engineering — is the possibility of cloning identical people . |
| 23 | Only a good monitoring system would allow judgements to be made about the possibility of moving long-stay patients out of the asylums on a large scale . |
| 24 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 25 | It follows from these conjectures that members of literate societies have the possibility of developing logical functions , of specialising in the ‘ truth functions ’ of language , and of extracting themselves from the embeddedness of everyday social life . |
| 26 | Instead , the council 's research project will examine the genetics of modern hens with the long-term possibility of developing new breeds with sturdier legs . |
| 27 | Patients may be unaware of some hazards ( e.g. the possibility of developing deep vein thrombosis ) and the nurse must therefore explain both the hazards and the preventive actions which can be taken . |
| 28 | SCOTVEC is also starting to look at the possibility of developing general SVQs at level IV in the longer term , building on HNCs and HNDs . |
| 29 | That we ought to have a careful look at the possibility of developing this hotel on a timeshare basis . |
| 30 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |