Example sentences of "but it [is] possible [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many people swear that their horse has a sense of humour , especially when it likes tipping them off ; but it is possible of course that these people actually have a considerable sense of humour themselves to put up with the vagaries of their horse !
2 But it is possible through Club Bon Viveur , organised by restaurant critics Les Routiers .
3 Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress .
4 In general we value goods with a price , and devalue the ‘ free lunch ’ , but it is possible for some institutions and professional and personal relationships to be viewed in different terms .
5 Sometimes proportionality can be very close indeed but it is possible for there to be divergences from strict proportionality for the reasons explained above .
6 Normally , however , one would expect the transport police to be responsible , but it is possible for other police officers to conduct tests .
7 But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise .
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