Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] possible that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite possible that Anglam was a front organisation . ’ |
| 2 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 3 | To be charitable , it 's entirely possible that Platt 's spell with Aston Villa might have led to him speaking broken Brummie . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's very possible that garages do take people for a ride , ’ acknowledged a spokesman for Kangol , one of the major baby-seat manufacturers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is thus possible that Venus did once possess a large quantity of water . |
| 7 | It is even possible that Isabella had renounced her son 's claim in 1326 in return for Valois help in preparing her invasion of England , and in any case Isabella was scarcely more popular in France than in England : the last thing the French nobles wanted was Mortimer , Isabella and their cronies installed in Paris . |
| 8 | It is even possible that Mr Soros is as wrong about gold as he was about the 1987 stockmarket crash , when he lost something like $100m . |
| 9 | It is even possible that James saw this programme as a means of creating a reservoir of manpower , from which — as in the time of Judas Maccabeus — an army might be created . |
| 10 | It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate . |
| 11 | It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate . |
| 12 | It is even possible that Innocent commissioned this collection . |
| 13 | Moreover , it is also possible that management took the view that unskilled workers could be controlled more easily than skilled workers because they had less powerful union backing , and that they could be replaced more easily because there was a bigger pool of labour to draw from . |
| 14 | This reasoning seems plausible , though it is also possible that policies which , as it turned out , led to non-profitable growth , might at least is some cases be accounted for simply as failed experiments in increasing profitability . |
| 15 | It is also possible that surface dust is mobilized by electrical forces : indeed , such forces are of great importance to the minority of scientists who believe that very little lava if any has flowed from the lunar interior . |
| 16 | It is also possible that magistrates gave defendants the benefit of the doubt when in the preliminary inquiry both sides produced witnesses who appeared unreliable . |
| 17 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 18 | It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . |
| 19 | It is also possible that Mercury formed heterogeneously , in which case it need never have become hot enough to differentiate , though it is then more difficult to account for any widespread crater erasure . |
| 20 | It is also possible that acid base transport systems regulate cell proliferation not via changes in pH i but via secondary effects on intracellular Na or Cl - concentrations or cell volume . |
| 21 | It is also possible that patients with inflammatory bowel disease and aberrant expression of blood group antigens in colonic and biliary epithelium are at risk of developing extraintestinal manifestations such as PSC . |
| 22 | It is also possible that Venus is not divided into a core and a mantle . |
| 23 | It is also possible that party members in Barnsley would prefer a more moderate candidate . |
| 24 | It is also possible that apoproteins and phospholipids resulting from the breakdown of VLDL to LDL transfer to HDL 3 to form a particle resembling HDL 2 ( Patsch et al , 1978 ; Tall , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | While either variant may derive from the chronological lists , discussed just below , or from Nesri , it is just possible that Ali 's 833 results from a careless reading of Taskopruzade 's account . |
| 26 | It is just possible that d'Ohsson means Molla Fenari , whom he does not otherwise mention ; but even the earliest possible date for Molla Fenari 's becoming Multi , roughly 1380 , is too late to allow for any possibility of his having succeeded Tursun Fakih . |
| 27 | I suppose it is just possible that Hippodameia was set next her father , Sterope on the other side ( cross-linking the wings , like the archers in the east pediment at Aegina , above , p. 45 ) , and Pausanias was wrong in this point too . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The younger O'Sullivans liked to tell this macabre tale and it is very possible that Poe , too , may have heard it . |
| 30 | It is certainly possible that Mercury once had a molten iron core which has since partly or wholly solidified . |