Example sentences of "but it [be] [adv] possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is theoretically possible to build a special machine — a protein molecule like the rest of the cellular machines — that runs off RNA copies from other RNA copies . |
| 2 | It is possible that the increase in the value of the company was justified , but it is also possible to understand accusations that this represented yet another privatised company sold at less than its real value . |
| 3 | But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history . |
| 4 | It is indeed possible to say the same about the social world ; but it is also possible to deny it . |
| 5 | We easily recognise Yorkshire , Scots and Welsh accents , but it is also possible to detect a person 's social class by listening to his or her speech . |
| 6 | It is all too easy to daydream while reading and thereby not recognise words which we are looking at , but it is also possible to recognise words which we are not looking at . |
| 7 | A formal meeting may have stated stages , for example : minutes of last meeting , proposal , seconding , amendment , debate , vote , reading of correspondence , any other business , closure ; but it is also possible to describe the parts as , for example : routine business , heated debate , heckling , and so on . |
| 8 | Similarly , a novel may have labelled sections like Foreword , Part I , Chapter 9 , and visible paragraphs ; but it is also possible to recognize such parts as : scene setting , character sketch , descriptive passage , dialogue , action , authorial comment . |
| 9 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 10 | But it is also possible and not less agreeable to regard it as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions . ’ |
| 11 | We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week . |
| 12 | We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week . |
| 13 | But it is also possible that ( as he once hinted in a press conference ) he might have refused Marshall Aid rather than cave in to Anglo-American pressure on the German issue . |
| 14 | The breadth of such bands means that those of different species often overlap , but it is generally possible to select a wavelength at which one compound may be monitored during the course of a reaction , for instance . |
| 15 | All this information is related to molecular structure , but it is rarely possible to come to definite conclusions about the constitution , shape , size or conformation of a sample purely from its PE spectrum . |
| 16 | But it is not possible to look beyond the world in order to see what it depends upon directly . |
| 17 | The minimum number of prey items in the predator assemblages is based on the highest number of any single element in the assemblage , but it is not possible without direct experimental observation to extrapolate back from this to what the predator actually ate ( Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | Their abundance in such sites as Rudabanya , Hungary , and Can Llobateres , Spain , and their wide distribution across the whole of southern Europe , demonstrates a successful adaptation spanning 3–4Myr , but it is not possible with our present knowledge to say what was the basis of this success . |
| 19 | We can know how things are in front of our noses , maybe , but it is not possible to know that an altruistic act is morally good , nor that God exists , nor that you will have eggs for breakfast tomorrow . |
| 20 | Year groups are reasonably distinct up to that time ( fig.5 ) , but it is not possible to age adult dogwhelks . |
| 21 | There must be doubt as to whether the Government fully intended the severity of the monetary squeeze and the massive rise in the real exchange rate that impinged on the economy in those years , but it is not possible to overstate the economic shock that hit industry in 1979–1981 . |
| 22 | His successor was his cousin , Eadberht , the brother of Archbishop Ecgberht , but it is not possible to say whether his powerful relatives brought pressure to bear on him to resign . |
| 23 | But it is not possible to reconcile the freedom of individual countries to tax with the freedom of capital movement within the Community . |
| 24 | Some ad hoc studies of these problems have been made ‘ off the model ’ but it is not possible to tell , from the model , whether these developments are inevitable , optimal , arise from some readily-changed market impediment , or are undesirable and remediable by drastic changes to policy . |
| 25 | A police spokesman said the incidents are being investigated but it is not possible to speculate why vandals are concentrating on this car . |
| 26 | Rugby will not get any change out of Leicester , but it is just possible that Nottingham are now so fired up that they might escape with the point they need at Orrell . |
| 27 | Steam Tanks must take fear , panic and other psychology tests just like other units and characters , but it is n't possible for a Steam Tank to literally flee . |
| 28 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 29 | It might , of course , mean that that particular person will readily be labelled ‘ deviant ’ , but it is equally possible that an individual could fully appreciate the attitude(s) of the generalized other and yet choose not to act within its framework . |
| 30 | Miron 's tentative conclusion is that older staff may become less concerned about teaching as they develop other priorities ; but it is equally possible that students are responding more similarly , and more favourably , to lecturers who are more like themselves . |