Example sentences of "[verb] up the prospect of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such international collaboration is now continuing to locate the gene itself , opening up the prospect of devising a test to find out which women are at risk of developing the disease . |
| 2 | They weighed up the prospect of knocking on the door and members of the jury , you have to consider in due course whether they got that act right . |
| 3 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 4 | At a recent meeting of the party 's Central Committee , President Gorbachev opened up the prospect of a future coalition government when he talked of ‘ equal possibilities for the Communist party and other political and social organisations . ’ |
| 5 | A deal signed with the American biotechnology firm , Genentech , for the mass-production of the protein opened up the prospect of supplying a massive world market for haemophiliacs . |
| 6 | ‘ Systematization ’ opened up the prospect of complete subordination to the State , the Party or , to be precise , to Ceauşescu . |
| 7 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 8 | Coming so soon after the fiasco of Barricades Week , it opened up the prospect of new opportunities in foreign policy and reinforced a determination on de Gaulle 's part to liquidate the Algerian problem as soon as possible , even at the expense of major concessions to the FLN and its government-in-exile , the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic or GPRA . |
| 9 | The recall of Botham and Allan Lamb open up the prospect of 20 of the 22 players who contested the World Cup final clashing again in the third Texaco match . |
| 10 | Instead , the Premier 's efforts to keep the Gatt talks on track have opened up the prospect of a world trade deal . |
| 11 | However , the president of the National Reconciliation Commission , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , asserted that " important progress " had been made , which had opened up the prospect of a comprehensive agreement on human rights . |
| 12 | I suppose I am in a good position to weigh up the prospects of the major contenders in today 's race , at least , and I have no hesitation in declaring my delight at being on Docklands Express . |
| 13 | This opens up the prospect of developing the preliminary work done by Zamecnick , Stephenson and others into a general strategy for anti-viral therapy . |
| 14 | This carries up to eight channels of sound for each vision channel and opens up the prospect of broadcasting a soundtrack in several languages simultaneously . |
| 15 | The modern kite , coupled with the vast range of photographic equipment which is available , opens up the prospect of aerial snapshotting for anyone . |
| 16 | Setting up the prospect of some lively debate over the next couple of weeks , Cypress said last week that ‘ HyperSparc is a better product : we can make HyperSparc , ’ casting Viking as ‘ a big complex chip which is unmakeable . ’ |
| 17 | The possibility of amendment was rejected by EC Foreign Ministers on April 6 , as this would open up the prospect of other countries also trying to renegotiate the terms of the Treaty . |