Example sentences of "but [pron] is possible [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be impossible to draw up a fitness league table but it is possible to say that complexity has increased during evolution . |
| 2 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 3 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 4 | Terry Waite languishes in Lebanon — but it is possible to believe that if our Government came up with a suitably attractive offer , he would be released . |
| 5 | Not everyone is moved to tears by the fate of vultures and wolves , but it is possible to think that the old crops of predators and scavengers were somehow more attractive than the new lot . |