Example sentences of "the possibility of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in this sense that Derrida argues that Husserl 's Origin of Geometry sets up ‘ the possibility of history as the possibility of language ’ whereby ‘ difference would be transcendental ’ : writing , in the general significance which Derrida gives it of a differential marking , must be the condition of any historicity . |
| 2 | Any asylum seeker brought with him the possibility of retribution against the shrine and its local town or city from his enemies , as Gregory discovered on a number of occasions . |
| 3 | No doubt it is part of the function of the national court to assess the strength of the challenge to the national law in question , and to weigh both the possibility of damage in the interim to the subject if the law in question is enforced against him , and the possibility of damage to the public interest if the law is not so enforced . |
| 4 | No doubt it is part of the function of the national court to assess the strength of the challenge to the national law in question , and to weigh both the possibility of damage in the interim to the subject if the law in question is enforced against him , and the possibility of damage to the public interest if the law is not so enforced . |
| 5 | All the same , heavy coughing always meant the possibility of water on the lungs which in turn could lead to pneumonia , so I gave her an injection of vitamin K , to thicken the blood , a sleeping pill , some linctus which contained a tiny amount of morphine , and also told her , ‘ Take one of these pills every morning for a week . ’ |
| 6 | But as the Labour parliamentary front bench scents the thaw , and surveys the possibility of government for the first time in a decade , the party pressures running in favour of detente are increasing . |
| 7 | The latest developments in the intricate history of crofting concern the possibility of ownership by the crofters themselves . |
| 8 | Once source indicates the possibility of service with the 412th Fighter Group at either Palmdale or Santa Maria AAF fields . |
| 9 | If these arguments are valid , they create spaces which the system can not close off or remove , however much it wants to , and which ensure the possibility of conflicts within the productive forces as a whole . |
| 10 | But the difficulty with this approach for the present case is that Woolwich was in reality suffering from no mistake at all , so much so that it was prepared to back its conviction that the revenue was acting ultra vires by risking a very substantial amount of money in legal costs in establishing that fact ; and , since the possibility of distraint by the revenue was very remote , the concept of compulsion would have to be stretched to the utmost to embrace the circumstances of such a case as this . |
| 11 | In 1970 the possibility of building on the tennis courts was discussed and this idea was favoured by the Connexional Church Plans Committee . |
| 12 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 13 | Regrettably this leads to over-simplification resulting in a lack of clarity and thus to the possibility of misunderstanding by the reader . |
| 14 | This will simply serve to increase the possibility of conflict between the two dogs , because the social status of the newcomer is raised by your actions . |
| 15 | If you assume that on politically sensitive issues as is normally the case the magistrates would not vote , and if you assume that the Secretaries er Secretary of State 's appointees would , as would seem entirely plausible , vote in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State were indeed a Conservative Secretary of State , you would in fact have er in a area where the with the with the with the substantive Labour majority , you would have a Conservative majority on the police authority and you would you have the possibility of conflict between the police police authority and the local authorities er in the area who are jointly responsible with the police authority for many aspects of er of of policing by consent . |
| 16 | It privileges the music which Adorno chooses as best representing the contradictory whole — thus alongside Beethoven and the tradition following him other kinds of music ( Berlioz , Rossini , Verdi , Elgar , Stravinsky , Eisler , let alone Lehár , Louis Armstrong , Walter Donaldson or Elvis Presley ) are inevitably presented as partial , that is to say more socially specific , less autonomous ; it also reduces the possibility of struggle over the specific uses and meanings of musical materials and forms : competing ‘ viewpoints ’ are dismissed as ‘ regressive ’ or ‘ false ’ . |
| 17 | Terra Sigillata ware , including lamps , now date an early alteration to the palace around the year nought , placing it well within the possibility of identification as the Herodian palace described by Josephus , the Jewish historian ( 37–100 AD ) , together with the city of Caeserea , its great harbour , temple to Augustus the Emperor , and theatre . |
| 18 | The guidelines exclude the possibility of assessment of the bargain under the contract as described above . |
| 19 | Exercises can be carried out by individuals or as a class activity with the possibility of interaction between the students and teachers . |
| 20 | To counteract the possibility of discrimination by the EEC should it be able to establish a common external tariff , the other OEEC states would need to accept a lowering of or even an end to their tariffs , providing the Six would waive their common external tariff on goods coming from the rest of the OEEC . |
| 21 | As has already been mentioned , insider traders also face the possibility of conviction under the US mail and wire fraud statutes in so far as they participate in a ‘ scheme … to defraud ’ ( ie breach of s.10b and Rule 10b-5 ) where use has been made of the postal system or telephonic communication . |
| 22 | What is envisaged is a simple card and the possibility of inclusion in the new book of common order . |
| 23 | Apart from the possibility of cannibalism between the two , there is also a risk of quarrelling . |
| 24 | There is nothing in the judgment or in the report of counsel 's argument to suggest that the possibility of rectification against the chargees , in the absence of a successful plea of forgery or non est factum , was ever considered . |
| 25 | She said , as if she was seeing the possibility of doubt for the very first time , ‘ You arc the man from the pest control ? ’ |
| 26 | They put up notices about the project in community centres , general practitioners ' waiting rooms , and clinics ; again not formally advertising posts , but to alert people to the possibility of involvement with the Home Support Project . |
| 27 | Brough [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 522 the C.P.S. delayed bringing a charge for a short period so that B was deprived of the possibility of trial in the juvenile court . |
| 28 | This leaves the possibility of influence at the hands of apprentices or a designer — a possibility for which we have little , if any , evidence . |
| 29 | There is the possibility of misinterpretation by the reader . |
| 30 | The draftees of the regulations foresaw the possibility of misgivings with the inspector 's investigation so they incorporated a number of safeguards which would , they hoped , ensure fair play . |