Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the possibility [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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.
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 This is called ‘ consumer choice ’ and it also opens up the possibility of charging for more services .
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