Example sentences of "it [modal v] possibly be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise the score is remarkably clear , indicating that it may possibly be a fair copy . |
| 2 | Later it may possibly be used in ordinary conversation , but again quiet circumstances avoid interference from the background noise . |
| 3 | It may be older , it may possibly be later . |
| 4 | It may possibly be offered tomorrow , but I do not know . |
| 5 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 6 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 7 | It may possibly be seen that in some cases the application of the united front from below is the only possible tactic , but it can never be the case that the application of the united front from above is the only possible tactic . |
| 8 | But I I feel it should possibly be tied in with six , rather than being considered on its own . |
| 9 | ‘ Nonsense , darling , ’ Louise laughed , but she felt that it might possibly be true . |
| 10 | It might possibly be occupied only by a raddled ancient , of no threat . |
| 11 | Kylie never tires of telling interviewers that life at home at Camberwell High School was just as normal as it could possibly be . |
| 12 | Afterwards Martina , 36 next month , admitted that it could possibly be her last Grand Slam event . |
| 13 | Lying awake at night and listening to the moaning of the wind and the howling of the dogs , she tried to imagine what it could possibly be like to give herself to her cousin , a man nearly ten years older than herself . |
| 14 | But once the Parliamentary material was brought to our attention , it seemed to me , as , I believe , to others of your Lordships who had heard the appeal first argued , to raise an acute question as to whether it could possibly be right to give effect to taxing legislation in such a way as to impose a tax which the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , during the passage of the Bill containing the relevant provision , had , in effect , assured the House of Commons it was not intended to impose . |
| 15 | You think it could possibly be , and it may well be , some rep , in his car , rushing from here to there , do n't give a toss about anybody else , as long as he gets where he wants to go . |
| 16 | As he had ‘ found ’ two pairs of white gloves , and his post-box mouth was as wide as it could possibly be , I began to suspect something . |
| 17 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |
| 18 | Television is already about as divorced from the real , everyday world as it could possibly be . |
| 19 | So it could possibly be that one . |
| 20 | It could possibly be that . |
| 21 | Now it could possibly be that , he was already married , and would want the children from that marriage to receive all the land that he had , rather than it being spread out with with more children that Ruth was gon na have . |
| 22 | In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but … |
| 23 | If the chancel or east end is self-contained , it can possibly be left substantially intact . |
| 24 | The knowledge you need to make your marriage the best it can possibly be . |
| 25 | It can possibly be traced to Taps in 1981 . |
| 26 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 27 | The truth of the first of these dicta is easy to see : any change may make matters worse rather than better ; only in a system which is as bad as it can possibly be , can change be introduced which must be beneficial . |
| 28 | ‘ But of course — my wife says that we anthropologists are like a housewife faced with the remains of yesterday 's stew and wondering whether it can possibly be eked out to make another meal . ’ |