Example sentences of "[adv] possible that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , projects which encourage a caring attitude in boys and acceptance of ‘ non-macho ’ traits would presumably act to deflect the automatic expression of male toughness or aggression although it is always possible that hostility to the course itself could provoke even more of a ‘ male backlash ’ .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 But , he added , it was also possible that Channel 7 's representative failed to make his ‘ position ’ clear or ‘ stepped over the line ’ .
6 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 .
7 It is also possible that party members in Barnsley would prefer a more moderate candidate .
8 The antiquarian , Stukeley , noted it in 1740 , and it is quite possible that knowledge of this never died out locally .
9 It is quite possible that pre-exposure to a stimulus both retards new learning about that stimulus and also establishes a memory trace of its own that interferes with any subsequently formed when recall is tested .
10 Still , it is also quite possible that hesitancy or disagreement may persist without one side of the dispute or one aspect of one 's personality being more rational than another , or in possession of any deeper insight into truth .
11 It is quite possible that co-operation between various macrophage subsets takes place in Peyer 's patches .
12 It is pretty certain that the watercourses which ran down down to the lake were pretty foul in those days , although , it is quite possible that excrement was utilised to a fair extent as a garden fertiliser .
13 It is at least possible that Parliament when the Acts of 1974 and 1976 were passed did not anticipate that so widespread and crippling use as has in fact occurred would be made of sympathetic withdrawals of labour and of secondary blacking and picketing in support of sectional interests able to exercise ‘ industrial muscle . ’
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