Example sentences of "[is] [adj] that [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if that 's their estimate , if it 's possible that they 're right , have you already then ? . |
| 2 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 3 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 4 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 5 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 6 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 7 | It 's possible that he 's trying to test your love for him . |
| 8 | ‘ You think it 's possible that he was … ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ So it 's possible that he was murdered ? ’ |
| 10 | Lovell is emphatic that it is not a fast-track management programme but a way of offering highly motivated individuals the chance to fully develop themselves in technical , business and behavioural areas . |
| 11 | I mean it 's awful that they 're doing this , you know I ca n't believe they 're carrying on . |
| 12 | It 's strange that there are an awful lot of our team who have never played at Twickenham , because the traditional Harlequins fixture at the beginning of the season has now been taken over by League fixtures and they are now played at the Harlequins ground The Stoop . |
| 13 | ‘ We were all friends before we got the band together , and it 's strange that there 's gon na be changes , ’ continues Greg , with clinical ruthlessness . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it 's admirable that you 're a nature-lover , Stevens , ’ he said , as I served him . |
| 15 | You as a care assistant are likely to be the most important person to show someone who 's depressed that they are cared for . |
| 16 | At Withington it is possible that we are dealing with a part of this workforce . |
| 17 | It is possible that we are dealing with a massive international rubbish smuggling operation . " |
| 18 | The homologies of these small basal sclerites in different insects have been much discussed and it is possible that they are derived from an original subcoxa . |
| 19 | As well as in the Pyrenees , you may see them further north in the Landes , and in Spain and Portugal , which have lots of them ; given which , it is possible that they are another survival , or tradition , of the Celtiberians , like the Basque language . |
| 20 | It is possible that they were taken to northern France ( Brittany ) by Cornish refugees about 1,500 years ago and that there continued to be trading between the two regions for several hundred years ; there is certainly a theory that the Breton cattle originated largely in Cornwall . |
| 21 | No German records relating to such a formation have so far been found , but it is possible that they were aircraft of III/ZG 26 . |
| 22 | Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated . |
| 23 | ‘ But of course it is possible that they were wrong . ’ |
| 24 | Although it is often assumed that these were one and the same battle , there is no evidence that Clovis fought at Zülpich , and it is possible that they were separate events . |
| 25 | Second , in particular it is possible that there is a wide measure of agreement concerning the modes of reasoning by which ideals of the good are to be evaluated . |
| 26 | It is possible that there is an undiscovered and unique set of equations that describes all the forces and particles in the universe in a kind of Theory of Everything that would do away with the Anthropic Principle . |
| 27 | It is possible that there is no pivot in this column because for all . |
| 28 | ‘ It is possible that there is some historical connection between the Yoga and occult practices of India and Tibet and the practice of psychic powers of Aboriginal men of high degree . |
| 29 | It is possible that there is quite genuinely some impairment of recall for the most risky situations , however , such risky events were simply extremely rare . |
| 30 | It is possible that there are abilities of mind and soul that have been lost . |