Example sentences of "it [is] possible [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible that 1992 will be a year for sprinters . |
| 2 | From any clutch it 's possible that one or two would n't hatch , and if food was short a little chick might be killed by an elder sibling ( or by its mother so that the stronger chick would survive ) . |
| 3 | But by the time you read this , it 's possible that one manufacturer will have really stirred things up by announcing a sub-£500 pen computer running Microsoft Windows for Pens . |
| 4 | It 's possible that some other minor eruptions occurred between 1681 and 1883 , but if they did , there is no record of them , and all of the reports and descriptions made by ships passing Krakatoa suggest that it was quite dormant . |
| 5 | His lace assumes a natural look he 's able to sit up and breathe more normally and for a time seems well My dear Dr Dunstaple , perhaps you could explain to us why , if the symptoms are caused , as you seem to believe , by damage to the lungs or by a poison circulating in the blood and depressing the action of the heart … why it 's possible that these symptoms should thus be suspended by an injection of warm water holding a little salt in solution ? " |
| 6 | We often ignore intuition , when it 's possible that intuitive responses are our past experiences lodged in our unconscious minds . |
| 7 | Even in the case of language tests , it is possible that situational factors will influence a child 's performance and hence make comparisons between two sets of scores difficult to interpret . |
| 8 | With eighty percent of the scholarly publications in research libraries printed on acidic paper and major campaigns underway in the US and Europe either to reformat or substitute that material in new formats such as microfilm or digital media it is possible that retrospective conversions will eventually digitize millions of volumes . |
| 9 | Indeed it is possible that many people recognise subconsciously that the hypothesis is not merely unprovable , but false ; certainly many drift away from an active interest in the subject . |
| 10 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
| 11 | While some landforms may have been so produced , it is possible that many of them may be relict forms subject to little later modification . |
| 12 | It is possible that many with irritable bowel syndrome patients have a pan-intestinal motor disorder , and that extra-alimentary sites innvervated by the autonomic nervous system , such as the bladder , are involved . |
| 13 | It is possible that many of the anti-microbial antibodies described in inflammatory bowel disease and other inflammatory disease states , may in fact be reflections of immunisation against microbial heat-shock proteins , which has been implied in the pathogenesis of several autoimmune disease states and which may induce anti-lactoferrin antibodies ( see below ) . |
| 14 | Events which have been implicated in schizophrenia are of a more everyday nature ( although it is possible that many also have a private meaning ) , and a very wide range of emotionally arousing events may trigger a relapse . |
| 15 | For the most part it made use of trackways already established and ancient , though it is possible that new pieces of track were trampled out where the direct line required it . |
| 16 | A quarter of the present patients had no identifiable gastrointestinal infection/infestation ; it is possible that new organisms or occult infection are implicated , and , although unlikely given the absence of CD4 receptors on healthy biliary epithelium , HIV may itself damage the biliary tree . |
| 17 | It is possible that such authoritarian actions will occur again as soon as another crucial appointment to the hierarchy comes up . |
| 18 | Lillian Faderman accepts that women 's relations may have been less physical in the past , but asserts that it is possible that such relations were still lesbian : |
| 19 | As it is possible that such an offence will be committed on any march or demonstration , the Act gives the power to tap any organization engaged in such activity . |
| 20 | It is possible that such perturbations to regional heat flow may have affected the evolution of vitrinite reflectance in the underlying Carboniferous rocks . |
| 21 | It is possible that such people had minor enzyme deficiencies before their damaging exposure , but that these were not causing any symptoms at that stage . |
| 22 | Nor do the minutes provide evidence of any formal attempt to compare the cost of improving Village school building with the cost of transporting the children to Green Haven , though it is possible that such studies took place . |
| 23 | It is possible that such customers will not be concerned by an indirect holding via an index future ( Martin , 1988 ; Luskin , 1987 , pp. 343 4 ) . |
| 24 | However , it is possible that such " cutting " was intentional , in order to create the effect of a movement away from the spectator ( who is seen to be receiving a privileged view ) . |
| 25 | It is possible that such errors however , are merely indicative of the same craftsman 's readjustments . |
| 26 | It is possible that advance notice of these strikes , combined with some noisy revving of jet engines from American aircraft carriers off the Dalmatian coast , would be enough to make the Bosnian Serbs change their minds . |
| 27 | Finally , it is possible that tighter control of restrictive practices agreements between firms is one of the factors that provide an incentive for mergers , a subject we take up in the next section . |
| 28 | It is possible that practical and theoretical authorities have little in common . |
| 29 | It is possible that concrete foundations for a boundary wall will be laid at the same time by the adjacent landowner ) ; |
| 30 | Steers ( 1953 ) has stressed the importance of vegetation and of dune formation in the history of offshore bars on the north Norfolk coast , which will be discussed below , and it is possible that slight changes of base level may also be important in the initial stages of some offshore bars . |