Example sentences of "'s [adj] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to know how this man got into the courtyard — somebody must have opened the main door and gate for him and it 's possible that somebody going out may have seen him . |
| 2 | Well if that 's their estimate , if it 's possible that they 're right , have you already then ? . |
| 3 | The thing is they 're still young and I suppose it 's possible that they could be taught their minds are still impressionable . |
| 4 | But if he wins , it 's possible that something may happen to me . |
| 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 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's possible that she might have gone to the young agricultural student — Farrel — who was here recently . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you think it 's possible that your daughter may be very unhappy ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's possible that your feelings are especially strong at the moment because you can see both your children growing away from the baby stage , leaving you with the knowledge that that chapter of your life is perhaps closed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's possible that he 's trying to test your love for him . |
| 14 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 15 | This business of him going missing … ’ began the Brigadier , ‘ It 's possible that he might have been involved in something big . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's possible that he has taught the gardener 's cat , ’ replied Mr Appin thoughtfully , ‘ but I do n't believe he has had time to teach any other cats . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You think it 's possible that he was … ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So it 's possible that he was murdered ? ’ |
| 19 | Of course it 's possible that he made other calls not in the line of business . ’ |
| 20 | Next door was a parchment maker , who had one corporal billeted on him , but we also know that 2 soldiers died in his house , and so it 's possible that he actually looked after wounded soldiers , which was , of course happening all over Oxford . |
| 21 | It 's possible that you did get on the the |
| 22 | The , the problem is , that nobody will ever take , and I suppose it 's possible that I do n't take , a balanced view of this . |
| 23 | ‘ Pat sends his best wishes , Mark , and says he 's sorry that he wo n't be there to say ‘ Goodbye ’ and wish you luck . |
| 24 | They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all . |
| 25 | Er , she is sorry , she 's sorry that she 's committed er she committed the offence . |
| 26 | He was loved so much , it 's unbelievable that it 's happened . |
| 27 | I mean it 's awful that they 're doing this , you know I ca n't believe they 're carrying on . |
| 28 | But that 's awful that you 've done |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |