Example sentences of "possibility [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Lynch is uncertain how the fungal growth enhancer works ; a likely possibility is that it helps combat natural toxins that develop in seed and potting composts . |
| 2 | One possibility is that the Government will advocate a ‘ carbon ’ tax on the burning of fossil fuels — oil , gas and coal . |
| 3 | One possibility is that England could send their B team . |
| 4 | One possibility is that the complex wobbles of the Earth 's axis as it orbits the sun contrived to produce a peak of solar insolation — stronger than usual phases of heating by the sun — during the two times of accelerated meltwater runoff . |
| 5 | Another possibility is that a woman had a bomb wired to her , and that it went off as she gave flowers to Mr Gandhi . |
| 6 | However , I think that his main reason for rejecting the possibility is that he could not imagine a process whereby it could happen . |
| 7 | Another possibility is that those going into residential homes shortly before their death do so in a crisis situation . |
| 8 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 9 | If the exclusion of much social criticism from the first volume is to be understood , the strongest possibility is that Freemantle strove to present her friend to the publisher and to potential subscribers as talented , pious , and humble . |
| 10 | The third possibility is that the adjective is a deliberate invitation for the population to divide themselves into ‘ active ’ and ‘ passive ’ citizens . |
| 11 | The most obvious possibility is that the waning of the overt unconditioned response ( UR ) produced by pre-exposure to the to-be-CS might be directly responsible , in whole or in part , for some instances of latent inhibition . |
| 12 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 13 | One further possibility is that the extracellular material provides a means of communication . |
| 14 | One possibility is that there are special cytoplasmic factors that are asymmetrically distributed at cell division — at very early stages there is very good evidence that factors in the cytoplasm are unequally distributed during cleavage . |
| 15 | One possibility is that there are master genes whose products control the activity of many others . |
| 16 | A final possibility is that individuals sometimes cope with difficulties by self-narcotising ; this is something that is done on a fairly wide scale by man . |
| 17 | Another possibility is that you may be treated inconsistently . |
| 18 | The other possibility is that one or more of your men stumbled across something important which Fouché would prefer kept secret : something , at a guess , more relevant to internal French politics than Bonaparte 's military adventures , which as you say do n't really concern the police . ’ |
| 19 | One possibility is that he took the view in this case that the trust inhered in specific property , and that it was payable by the person who had that property , so far as the other conditions for a valid trust were also met . |
| 20 | Another possibility is that the noun descriptions suggest a particular set of activities which become dominant in addressing schemas for interpretation . |
| 21 | One possibility is that the tendency to use both is restricted to reducing strain induced by unfavourable syntactic constructions ( i.e. verb-with as against and ) . |
| 22 | Any advantage bestowed on KGDC by its peculiar structure remains a mystery — but one possibility is that a molecule with 24 separate binding sites will be much more effective at picking up very small quantities of substrate . |
| 23 | Another possibility is that all quasars and BL Lac objects are beamed roughly towards us , and that something else distinguishes them — something that so far remains hidden in the enigmatic central powerhouse . |
| 24 | One further possibility is that France will lease one of the channels to Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Telediffusion , the company that produces TV programmes in Luxembourg , CTL wants to operate its own TV satellite but is having trouble raising the money . |
| 25 | One possibility is that only those who fail to fulfil their biological drives need mysticism as an escape , but the rich and famous seem no more immune to the lure of the Maharishi than the rest of us . |
| 26 | One possibility is that , by being asked to review a paper , one 's professional standing is on the line . |
| 27 | But one attractive possibility is that it is similar to the normal mechanism used in eyes , which depends on the interaction of light with substances called rhodopsins , or their close chemical relatives , the porohyropsins . |
| 28 | A related possibility is that the El |
| 29 | Another possibility is that the stripes operate at much closer quarters as a personal identification system . |
| 30 | One possibility is that the yeast is releasing toxins and other products that travel around the body in the blood . |