Example sentences of "[adv prt] possibility " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the higher probability strings are included in the computation , as opposed to just the highest , there remains a built in possibility of error . |
| 2 | Genetic engineering has opened up possibilities for the introduction of genes which confer the ability to produce either insecticidal toxins or semiochemicals which alter insect behaviour . |
| 3 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 4 | So the writing and the record making process are inseparable in a way , but the way I work certainly seems to open up possibilities for discovery . ’ |
| 5 | On the other hand , there are battery chargers which can be run off a car 's lighter-socket , and this does open up possibilities for running camcorders at locations such as remote camp sites which do not have a public mains power supply . |
| 6 | I am equally persuaded that the development of certain ‘ genres ’ of art ( the drama with the ancient Greeks , or the novel , with Dostoyevsky or Joyce ) have opened up possibilities which certainly did not exist earlier . |
| 7 | Talking in small groups about anything without the supervising presence of a teacher is educational because it is heuristic : it helps children to set up possibilities , and to knock them down , and to set up new ones . |
| 8 | An incongruity between expectations and results can also open up possibilities for innovation . |
| 9 | For the women on the other hand , this kind of love , if only it could be returned , opens up possibilities of finding a kind of heaven on earth , a healing of past wounds , a gateway into full intimacy with one other person , an end to existential dread and isolation . |
| 10 | This of course opens up possibilities of positive social change . |
| 11 | Nor could he believe he had been followed to Oxford by somebody determined to leave this macabre calling-card for him to see , for to believe that opened up possibilities too sinister to be endured . |
| 12 | Three major initiatives have brought this about and have opened up possibilities for futher development in the years to come . |
| 13 | Opening up possibilities for interpreting experience |
| 14 | This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail . |
| 15 | In the Edinburgh system , all word possibilities are stored on the word graph and higher level knowledge is used only to filter out possibilities , rather than to dictate the set of possibilities . |