Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] possibility of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for one section of youth , the lower-working-class ‘ roughs ’ , living on housing estates and high-rise flats , for whom the prospect of unemployment was added to the possibility of boring , unskilled work , ‘ only the football ground remained — stark , dirty , exposed to the elements — as a traditional gathering place for working-class lads ’ ( Wagg , 1984:206–7 ) . |
| 2 | Some strongly objected to the possibility of taking on a full grandparental role . |
| 3 | Here again ( understandably , since Reg. v. Lawrence was a decision of this House ) the misconceived argument and refutation , which were related to the possibility of implying words into section 1(1) , took precedence . |
| 4 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 5 | Third , the structural emphasis on form , which was originally designed to dispose of the objects of content , leads to the possibility of treating form itself as an object , so ignoring any differential value . |
| 6 | It is in this way that Foucault can return to the possibility of doing historical work that has political force through his notion of genealogy , which means , as he puts it , ‘ that I begin my analysis from a question posed in the present ’ . |
| 7 | Great Britain , for example , has two chambers — the House of Commons and the House of Lords , but the power of the House of Lords is restricted to the possibility of delaying legislation passed by the Commons for a short period and trying to make amendments to bills , if the government is prepared to accept them . |
| 8 | The twin solutions to equation ( 9.15 ) of equal positive and negative phase shifts correspond to the possibility of feeding a signal in at either end of the symmetric section and loading it with its characteristic impedance at the other end . |
| 9 | Twin solutions to equations ( 9.17 ) and ( 9.19 ) of equal positive and negative values of a again correspond to the possibility of feeding the symmetric section at either end and terminating it at the other end . |
| 10 | stated that it was a privilege to have several members present from North America , and consideration needed to be given to the possibility of forming a North American Division . |
| 11 | In view of this irksome journey to Keswick , not surprisingly , regard was given to the possibility of setting up smelt houses at Coniston : " … if the Mynes hereafter should hereafter prove so rich as to countervale the charges of erecting any worke houses , there is more there about but water sufficient to make some competent buildings and good store both a wood & peets at more easy rates than at Keswick if the said wood may be preserved for those uses … " |
| 12 | The Beeching proposals have been criticized for the lack of serious consideration given to the possibility of retaining many unprofitable passenger services , and the case for closure was presented in a way that prejudged the final decision . |
| 13 | Further study will also be given to the possibility of translocating a few Javan rhinos to other reserves within the species ' former range . |
| 14 | Lindstedt refers to the possibility of providing reading glasses or magnifying lenses for near work , of a power corresponding to the degree of failing . |
| 15 | In fact , the early memorandum refers to the possibility of using water power , and no doubt this was considered . |
| 16 | You were going to contact someone in ADSW ( I regret I forget the name ) with regard to the possibility of setting up some form of Communications Group representing all Departments in Scotland that would meet perhaps every quarter or half year . |
| 17 | Only in later novels does Brooke-Rose draw out the implications of this parallel ( i.e. the ‘ fictionality ’ or ‘ constructedness ’ of lived experience ) , but by pushing the possibility of psychological and ontological wholeness into ever more distant territory in The Sycamore Tree , she demonstrates a growing scepticism with regard to the possibility of achieving it . |
| 18 | There are of course two differing iterative impedances for any asymmetric section corresponding to the possibility of loading either end . |
| 19 | The further we research into the intricacies of the human genes , the closer we come to the possibility of refashioning human biological existence . |