Example sentences of "is [adv] possible that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is highly possible that the Wandjina image inscribed by these visitors from across the sea is a direct transposition from the Indian Spectacled Cobra 's hood markings , which constituted the symbol of well-being or balance used by Hindu or Buddhist spiritual teachers whose totem was that same animal — a legacy of the ancient Nagas . |
| 2 | Perhaps present arrangements make accountability more complex and confused than in the recent past but , through partnerships in communities , and a growing sense and confidence that schools and colleges are capable of managing their own affairs , it is entirely possible that the problems of accountability can be resolved . |
| 3 | It is entirely possible that this mechanism does operate , and that the members of a herd do use these clues when looking at one another . |
| 4 | In the case of the zebra , it is entirely possible that several of the nine mechanisms are working together , each supporting the other . |
| 5 | A few brief thoughts : if Mike Tyson appeals , is found guilty again , then takes his case to the US Supreme Court , it is entirely possible that he will have his case heard by Judge Clarence Thomas . |
| 6 | Having said that , it is entirely possible that one is being hopelessly naïve and that it is simply that the AIDS test has replaced the screen test as the sine qua non for any ambitious ingénue . |
| 7 | On the other hand , after seeing what he was doing with his electrified guitar , it is entirely possible that Mr Rossi 's aficionados are of the opinion that they are getting the best of both worlds . |
| 8 | It is entirely possible that you will do extraordinary well in 1993 , especially by following an unorthodox route — intuitive hunches could also pay off . |
| 9 | Therefore , when clients relate their first and subsequent panic attacks , or other symptoms of anxiety and stress , and explain that they were doing nothing out of the ordinary , it is entirely possible that this was the case . |
| 10 | Once the legislator 's choice is admitted as a source of content it is entirely possible that two positive legislators will not only determine a concept differently but will determine a concept in a contradictory fashion . |
| 11 | As has already been shown , moreover , and as will be referred to again , the combination of a muderrislik and a muftilik was very common in later times , particularly in the case of the Mufti ; and it is entirely possible that the muderrislik of the Manastir medrese carried with it , perhaps even from the start , official or semi-official recognition as mufti of Bursa . |
| 12 | It is entirely possible that there is n't . |
| 13 | It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life . |
| 14 | It is perhaps possible that were Murad II returning from a great victory , Molla Yegan might have come from Bursa to greet him , but such seems not to have been the case . |
| 15 | It is perhaps possible that they might fail to mention that a purely functional muftilik had been made an for Hizir Bey ; but it seems unlikely in the extreme that they should fail to mention his having held a post which , as has been suggested in the previous chapter , was already one of great prestige and which , by Taskopruzade 's time less than a century later , was certainly one of considerable power . |
| 16 | It is scarcely possible that the most incisive speaker and planner should have had to drive himself up to Newcastle for a meeting the other day — and in a car without a telephone . |
| 17 | It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps . |
| 18 | It is thus possible that the effect of the Great Conspiracy has been magnified in order to give Count Theodosius greater credibility in his programme of restoration . |
| 19 | It is thus possible that there exists today , in some archive , library or monastery in Ireland or Wales , a corpus of material comparable in value to the texts found at Nag Hammadi , or to the Dead Sea Scrolls . |
| 20 | He is once referred to by the chronicler , Matthew Paris [ q.v. ] , as ‘ Master Longespee ’ and it is thus possible that he was a son of William Longespée , third Earl of Salisbury ( died 1226 , q.v. ) , who was Henry III 's uncle . |
| 21 | It is thus possible that Venus did once possess a large quantity of water . |
| 22 | The theoretical territory attached to this hillfort , as suggested by Ian Burrow , is very similar to the land defined in the seventh-century charter , and it is thus possible that the estate of the hillfort persisted throughout the Roman period to emerge as a land unit belonging to Glastonbury Abbey until the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | It was previously suggested that fixed information will tend to be peripheral to the driving task and variable information is more likely to be central , it is thus possible that the amount of these types of information will constrain any effects of attention focusing . |
| 24 | It is thus possible that if the splanchnic vasodilation could be overcome , there could be an amelioration in the systemic and renal circulation . |
| 25 | It is thus possible that the two exchangers have distinct functional roles and are selectively regulated . |
| 26 | It is thus possible that the α 1 AT gene is a susceptibility locus for alcohol induced liver damager . |
| 27 | It is thus possible that most of the tissue damage is caused by neutrophils generating free oxygen radicals and releasing lysosomal enzymes when in contact with a chemoattractant within the lumina propria . |
| 28 | It is thus possible that in the course of the next few years Council will assign the headship for a period to the holder of the Halford Mackinder Professorship , who will among those carrying an obligation to serve if so requested . |
| 29 | But it hardly supports the conclusion which , without further ado , Berkeley draws from it : that it is not possible that sensible things ‘ should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ . |
| 30 | Even if this outcome had not occurred , and by some miracle the world economy had continued to grow after 1918 , it is not possible that States would merely have accommodated to the requirements of growing world trade . |