Example sentences of "open [adv prt] [art] possibility " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also delivered her own populist riposte , opening up the possibility of a referendum on the issue of the introduction of a single European currency . |
| 2 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 3 | Blocked negotiations with the unions resumed at the end of January , opening up the possibility of extending the deadline for job losses to the end of 1994 . |
| 4 | A European Court of Justice ruling on July 21 was seen as opening up the possibility of EC citizens applying for social security benefits in the United Kingdom even though they lived outside the UK . |
| 5 | US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease . |
| 6 | The criterion-basis of the new examination seemed to open up the possibility of an assessment system that would be public , open , and uniform , yet applicable to virtually all pupils in school , whatever their ability . |
| 7 | ‘ To open up the possibility of independence there 's only one party that is interested in independence , and that 's the Scottish National Party , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Secondly , to open up the possibility for modern society of a rational discourse , freed from artificial domination , in which participants share equally in the conversation . |
| 9 | It was argued that it would be undesirable to open up the possibility of private prosecution , and that the sensitivity of the area was such that it was imperative that prosecution policy be consistent . |
| 10 | But to regard such [ cultural ] forms as ‘ saying something of something ’ , and saying it to somebody , is at least to open up the possibility of an analysis which attends to their substance rather than to reductive formulas professing to account for them . |
| 11 | It always says , or equivalent , that 's just in order to open up the possibilities like this , so that we 're not caught by some legalistic oath . |
| 12 | Karajan had pitched camp with Legge and the Philharmonia in 1949 when a generous grant from the Maharaja of Mysore had stabilized the orchestra 's finances and opened up the possibility , in collaboration with EMI , of extensive recording , not only of the classic repertory but of works that caught Karajan 's and Legge 's fancy : Balakirev 's First Symphony , Roussel 's Fourth Symphony , the still formidably difficult Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta by Bartók , and some English music , too . |
| 13 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 14 | According to this argument , the Soviet weapons opened up the possibility that , through want of any alternative means of preventing the Red Army from overrunning Europe , the US might be forced to initiate a full-scale nuclear exchange with the USSR . |
| 15 | In 1771 the completion of the Bromberg Canal had linked the Vistula with the Oder and Berlin ; the Dniepr-Bug Canal and the Dniepr-Niemen Canal ( 1775–84 ) opened up the possibility of river trade as far south as Kiew and the Black Sea . |
| 16 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 17 | Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services . |
| 18 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 19 | Preston 's Rule helped the Zeeman Effect become an important tool in spectrum analysis , and opened up the possibility of quantum physics . |
| 20 | Yet , recognition of that extension might at the same time open up the possibility that vulnerable people who do not desire death , despite their suffering , might be killed by others for reasons of their own : this would subvert the right to self-determination , and is an argument against a mercy-killing defence or offence . |
| 21 | In the infrared there are two wavelengths , at 3 and 6 , with extremely high water absorption , coupled with good transmission through fibre optics , and FELs open up the possibility of using a tunable laser operating in a pulsed mode in these regions , thus minimising tissue damage . |
| 22 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 23 | The decisions that we have made on the interior and justice portfolio — to deal with terrorism more closely in an intergovernmental agreement — open up the possibility of much greater co-operation against terrorism . |
| 24 | The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations . |
| 25 | The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead . |
| 26 | I do n't want him to lean on Jordan at this stage , just open up the possibilities . |
| 27 | Leicester went into the game inspired by four wins in five games , a run that had opened up the possibility of a hat-trick of promotion successes for manager Brian Little after taking Darlington from the Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in the last two seasons . |
| 28 | Some of the more creative forms of privatization adopted in the late 1980s have opened up the possibility that any asset could be sold but , regardless of that , the argument is fallacious because the net realizable value of an asset is not the only value which can be placed on it . |
| 29 | The talks were seen to have opened up the possibility of a June meeting between the UNRG , political parties , church groups , employers and popular movements as a preliminary to possible direct talks between the government , the armed forces and the guerrillas . |
| 30 | Mr Morrison said the independence movement had opened up the possibility of former Eastern bloc countries becoming big players in the drug trade : ‘ Poland , for example , is now a major manufacturer of amphetamine . ’ |