Example sentences of "be possible [that] " in BNC.

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1 In constructivism we view the organism-environment dyad from the outside and ask how it might be possible that an organism which has input systems and which is active could ever come to know that the environment exists .
2 It may be possible that I shall meet them all again one day .
3 But it would be possible that I might end up back at Ritchie Motors .
4 It may even be possible that house prices have merely adjusted upwards to meet the extra spending power of those obtaining mortgages with tax relief attached .
5 So in the early 1920s some people conjectured that it may be possible that helium — element number two in the periodic table of the elements — could be built from two hydrogen atoms .
6 Might it not be possible that ours is indeed the only Universe , and that it represents the ‘ best line ’ through all the trillions of probabilities ?
7 I mean , it may just be possible that Diblo Dibala actually is the best guitarist on Earth
8 The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires
9 The coin caused it to be possible that the bar come out .
10 It may thus be possible that binding of pou[c] to this motif is mostly directed by the POU HD and perhaps further stabilized by the POU S .
11 And for a female it may be possible that she 's not going to get a full pension anyway , she may have er had time out , not paid contributions right the way through etcetera .
12 Well it would be I suppose it would be possible that that they could start their time together and work right through for years together , but invariably er that did n't happen because people were picked up and laid off as the boat progressed , er and if er Y you may get a a run for the one yard would need , say , six squads of of riveters , in a hurry .
13 If the reading system does include these two separate processing components , it might be possible that neurological damage could impair one component whilst leaving the other intact , to produce a specific pattern of acquired dyslexia .
14 It might be possible that this rearrangement of the gene reflects differences in gastric mucosal structure and function between patients with gastric body ulcer and patients with gastric angular or antral ulcer and patients with duodenal ulcer .
15 It 's possible that a sexually-transmitted infection might cause cancer of the cervix — especially if you 're under 20 .
16 It 's possible that he 's trying to test your love for him .
17 ‘ It 's possible that people are getting a bit of a high from eating hot food , ’ said Dr Prescott .
18 It 's possible that some other minor eruptions occurred between 1681 and 1883 , but if they did , there is no record of them , and all of the reports and descriptions made by ships passing Krakatoa suggest that it was quite dormant .
19 It 's possible that Fedorov may have exceeded his authority : I forgot to mention that he 's a madman , though he succeeds in disguising it most of the time .
20 It 's possible that 1992 will be a year for sprinters .
21 It 's possible that the man who stands on the winner 's podium on the Champs Elysées on the afternoon of Sunday 26 July will have come to the fore in the last two days .
22 John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves .
23 But if he wins , it 's possible that something may happen to me .
24 Among smaller firms , it 's possible that Customs changes with respect to the single European market may accelerate the take-up of EDI .
25 Of land on the registers he says hopefully , ‘ it 's possible that in areas with planning restrictions , planning permission might be given more readily in order for it to be cleaned up as part of development ’ .
26 We often ignore intuition , when it 's possible that intuitive responses are our past experiences lodged in our unconscious minds .
27 From any clutch it 's possible that one or two would n't hatch , and if food was short a little chick might be killed by an elder sibling ( or by its mother so that the stronger chick would survive ) .
28 It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door .
29 I want to know how this man got into the courtyard — somebody must have opened the main door and gate for him and it 's possible that somebody going out may have seen him .
30 ‘ Do you think it 's possible that your daughter may be very unhappy ? ’
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