Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] the possibility " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increased intraepithelial lymphocyte count should always suggest the possibility of gluten ingestion in treated patients , even when the mucosal structure looks otherwise normal . |
| 2 | The processes underlying habituation training will presumably go on during distinctiveness training and thus , if we accept the interpretation of habituation discussed in Chapter 2 , we must also accept the possibility that stimulus differentiation plays a part in acquired distinctiveness . |
| 3 | Disturbed behaviour in sleep and rage attacks should also raise the possibility of epilepsy . |
| 4 | ( The reader should also consider the possibility of ‘ log-rolling ’ or ‘ vote trading ’ see Buchanan and Tullock , 1962 ; Wilson , 1969 ; and Tullock , 1970 . ) |
| 5 | Auditors should also consider the possibility of fraud and other irregularities and their effect on the truth and fairness of the view given in the financial statements . |
| 6 | Having so long regarded our intelligence as supreme , perhaps we should now consider the possibility that other creatures may be equally intelligent and possess a communication system that is beyond our comprehension . |
| 7 | During these early talks , progress appeared to have been made on Unionist demands ( i ) that the British government should seriously consider the possibility of an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agrement ; ( ii ) that the Anglo-Irish secretariat based near Belfast should be suspended before devolution talks began ; and ( iii ) that the normal summer gap between meetings of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [ see below ] could be defined in advance and used as an opportunity to open formal negotiations . |
| 8 | If , as you approach retirement , you become aware that you are not going to have a big enough pension to live as comfortably as you would like , you might seriously consider the possibility of making additional voluntary contributions . |
| 9 | Not even those far-out radicals could apparently contemplate the possibility of universal female suffrage . ’ |
| 10 | The criterion is not whether or not the event could reasonably be anticipated , but whether or not human foresight and prudence could reasonably recognise the possibility of such an event . |
| 11 | Besides the obvious pointers this gives to where effort needs to be applied , it may also open the possibility of changing customer expectations . |
| 12 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 13 | First , the market and third parties have a legitimate expectation to be entitled to rely on the validity of the Panel 's rules and decisions , and secondly , contemporaneous judicial review would only increase the possibility of delaying tactical litigation by an unscrupulous party to a bid in order to gain an advantage in the takeover process . |
| 14 | The position nevertheless remains that the possibility exists of parliamentary legislation inconsistent with the 1972 Act being preferred by an English court under the doctrine of implied repeal and , even if this possibility were removed , there would always remain the possibility of an express repeal , for notwithstanding this impressive accumulation of law and practice there is no shortage of political figures who insist that the sovereignty of the Parliament of the United Kingdom stands unimpaired , and plenty who are pledged to use that power to extract the United Kingdom from the coils of Europe in which they see it as enmeshed . |
| 15 | The whole Helsinki framework was established on the assumption that the West and the Soviet Union would retain their spheres of influence , especially in Europe , but that the application of their hegemonies would become milder and more tolerant , and that a series of negotiations and security agreements would steadily remove the possibility of East-West conflict . |
| 16 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
| 17 | The alliance will also study the possibility of providing service to other high-volume products , such as IBM and multi-vendor workstations , and will explore creation of a joint venture between IBM and Kodak to pursue the business ; the aim is to exploit Kodak 's existing infrastructure and service expertise in the US . |
| 18 | The police , therefore , have little to gain in promoting any exploration of their modes of thought , for analysis can only hold the possibility that the whole intricate system , to paraphrase Lévi-Strauss ( 1967 ) , will be revealed ‘ as an immense disorder [ which ] is organised in the form of a grammar ’ . |
| 19 | Many , if not most , of the distinctive phenomena that constitute ‘ the nineteenth century ’ are directly due to railway speed ; that is , we can scarcely imagine the possibility of their development in the absence of railways . |
| 20 | It can also improve the possibility of moving to a more desirable job with another employer or in a different geographic area . |
| 21 | One can also consider the possibility that there might be black holes with masses much less than that of the sun . |
| 22 | ( Seeing that the process is still performing internal actions , an observer can never discount the possibility that it might still do something . ) |