Example sentences of "[num ord] possibility is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second possibility is that there may not be the clear difference between fiction and non-fiction for the young reader that then appears to be for the adult . |
| 2 | A second possibility is that the child is able to employ a set of relatively sophisticated strategies for analysing adult speech . |
| 3 | A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation . |
| 4 | A second possibility is that the male 's spectacular plumage indicates that he is free of parasites , otherwise he could not have grown such superb feathers . |
| 5 | The second possibility is that the high-velocity masers are emitted in molecular gas flowing out from ( or flowing in towards ) the nuclear region . |
| 6 | The second possibility is that the rustling is a tiger . |
| 7 | The second possibility is that , in order to achieve some measure of agreement , the standard is reduced to its lowest possible common elements . |
| 8 | A second possibility is that the use of violence itself amounts to threatening behaviour . |
| 9 | The second possibility is that a bank could rearrange its assets by selling securities . |
| 10 | The second possibility is that the Government have moved the guillotine motion on the ground that an inordinate amount of time has already been spent debating the Bill . |
| 11 | The first possibility is that such an increase in productive capacity is not undertaken . |
| 12 | The first possibility is that the cat in question is ill or senile and its whole behaviour routine is starting to collapse . |
| 13 | The first possibility is that the bureaucracy is responsive primarily to itself — that is to its own interests and priorities . |
| 14 | The next possibility is that this new once-a-week frequency is the level at which one or both of you unconsciously feels happiest with sex . |
| 15 | The next possibility is that Stalin had planned a ‘ near miss ’ followed by a purge . |
| 16 | The third possibility is that the adjective is a deliberate invitation for the population to divide themselves into ‘ active ’ and ‘ passive ’ citizens . |
| 17 | A third possibility is that the Candida provokes antibodies which happen to cross-react with some of the body 's own proteins . |
| 18 | A third possibility is that teachers and care staff may not recognise the importance of such activities . |
| 19 | A third possibility is that an animal might be able to recognise its own genetic relatives . |
| 20 | The third possibility is that neither of the others can work . |
| 21 | The third possibility is that the shifted features are not due to the Doppler motion of the gas but due to stimulated Raman scattering of the main features . |
| 22 | A third possibility is that A(1) and A(2) are sensitive to differences between C(1) and C(2) to which W is indifferent . |
| 23 | A third possibility is that two of you have completed our Fal Sail course earlier in the year . |
| 24 | A third possibility is that physicians are less likely to admit elderly patients to the hospital for treatment , so that age 's effect on mortality is exerted before admission . |
| 25 | The third possibility is that the plaintiff may take up a position which is not in itself dangerous but where his failure to take precautions increases the risk of the extent of harm which he may suffer . |