Example sentences of "it is possible that a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible that a trust clause may have been omitted .
2 It is possible that a mutant child of that parent might be even better at surviving .
3 Thus , if an individual deals on behalf of his company , it is possible that a company could be charged with aiding and abetting an offence under the legislation , or with conspiracy to commit an offence under the legislation .
4 Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause .
5 Indeed , it is not an easy task to find out if the invention has been anticipated and is already part of the state of the art , given the massive world-wide volume of published work , and it is possible that a publication which anticipates the invention will not be discovered .
6 Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter .
7 It is possible that a generation of children may grow up deprived of their entitlement — an introduction to the powerful and splendid history of the best that has been thought and said in our language .
8 It is possible that a mixture of all three levels of care might be indicated to meet the needs of one client .
9 It is possible that a failure to distinguish between the two sexes can explain the lack of agreement .
10 In horizontal mergers it is possible that a merger will allow exploitation of economies of scale .
11 It is possible that a figure of the King was once part of the scene , and that his heroic intervention in the face of disaster was part of the cult iconography .
12 While in this state , no further modifications may be entered , although it is possible that a quality rejection would cause the DC to re-enter the active state .
13 It is possible that a domain such as Estate Agents will be adequately covered by the LOB corpus , due to its nature as a concrete , well-understood domain that is concerned with ’ everyday ’ words and concepts such as houses , towns , rooms , etc .
14 It is possible that a piece of slate or glass has been cemented over the rodding arm .
15 The stringent criteria for selecting our patients meant that we had few patients and it is possible that a difference in acid secretion between the patients with idiopathic DU and H pylori positive patients with DU could become apparent with greater numbers .
16 The Bull Court at Knossos is not well preserved , but it is possible that a fence of some kind ran round its edge ; a fragment of fresco found in the Labyrinth shows a strongly made three-rail wooden fence with a priestess or attendant leaning on it , watching the spectacle .
17 It is possible that a cement mixer or a tower crane may go into action or other works be carried out , as a hotelier or apartments owner seeks to maintain or improve standards and facilities .
18 It is possible that an IC will eventually emerge to perform the function but , until then , the following description should allow people to develop their own system .
19 It is possible that an individual 's echolocation system is impaired or disrupted when the whale is close to gentle sloping sandy beeches .
20 With other constants which define array sizes , such as maxExp , minExp and the various constants related to the number of rows and columns in the picture it is possible that an increase will lead to a memory overflow or long waits for some actions to terminate .
21 It is known that approximately 30% of benign tumours will become ‘ invasive ’ and therefore it is possible that an increase in protein synthesis , which would be needed for further growth , might herald the development of the malignant phenotype and invasion by the tumour cells .
22 By analogy with other Zechstein carbonate units , it is possible that an oolitic-barrier or reef complex also may have been deposited at the edge of the platform but no evidence of this has been reported so far .
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