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

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1 The ending of The Accused , on the other hand , offers up the possibility of change .
2 It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating .
3 In sum , the whole curriculum approach opens up the possibility for special educational provision to become an integral part of the process of developing comprehensive education as a whole .
4 This , in turn , opens up the possibility of a unified account of the world that encompasses not only physical but also mental events .
5 This is called ‘ consumer choice ’ and it also opens up the possibility of charging for more services .
6 It is important to believe that you have acquired most of your ways of behaving because that opens up the possibility of behaviour being malleable rather than something fixed and unchanging .
7 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 .
8 This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date .
9 However , the fact that the ‘ soft left ’ has lost even the illusion that it runs Labour ( it lost the reality years ago ) opens up the possibility of realignment within the party .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Every time the child makes demands the parent provides a retort and opens up the possibility of more interaction about the demand .
13 The second order signification system opens up the possibility of an endless layer of significatory systems each aspiring to a larger context from which meaningfulness is derived .
14 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 .
15 Being in work , no matter how poor the conditions , opens up the possibility of recruitment into the primary labour market .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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.
19 The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy .
20 The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest .
21 It also means that if difference in its sense of non-identity sets up the possibility of history , then difference in its sense of delay means also that it can never be finally concluded , for such deferral will always inhibit closure .
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