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

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1 It was just possible that Floss had got shut in one of them .
2 It is just possible that you are one of those rare people who has never seriously tried to diet .
3 It is just possible that a diet too low in certain foods will produce iron and calcium deficiency .
4 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 .
5 But it was just possible that Ash 's own Vico had marginalia missed even by the indefatigable Cropper .
6 Is n't it just possible that students are missing out by being held back on full-time courses for so long ?
7 It is just possible that the tide is now turning for social works with the opportunity for specialisation and new roles in the Community Care service .
8 It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own .
9 Of course it 's just possible that she has poor eyesight — a woman like that would be too vain to wear spectacles .
10 It seems just possible that this reversal of hand causes sufficient unwinding of the super helix into which the DNA is wound to prevent the gene being transcribed .
11 It is just possible that this is a master stroke on the part of the CEGB : focus attention on a topic that really has little to do with the inspector .
12 ( It 's just possible that the youngsters were expressing a scientific talent rather than a dislike of the press , for their is no denying that McGinty 's ample form would produce an immediate uplift in the balloon . )
13 It is just possible that , because these spiritual things are produced by the mind and are therefore peculiar to individuals , varying little or much from person to person , they represent the real and absolute fact of individuality .
14 It is just possible that , given the choice , they might prefer the risk of an occasional torn ear or scratched nose to the certainty of a totally sexless adult life .
15 Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station .
16 It was just possible that the painkillers she had taken for her shoulder had reacted with the alcohol , but it seemed unlikely .
17 It seemed just possible that we might meet in Menton , where she went as judge for the Katherine Mansfield Prize — an inappropriate meeting-place , for we both greatly disliked ‘ K.M. ’ She was to inspire the admirable story ‘ Sisters ’ in Elizabeth 's next collection — the story of a cosy , bourgeoise , widowed ex-mayoress in a provincial town being embarrassed by questions about her famous , disreputable sister .
18 Or was it just possible that right to the end he had believed that she would find out , and come to him ?
19 And if he were mistaken , it was just possible that the lass was with child .
20 The best season for an eastwards voyage was already past , though it was just possible that we might run far north and cross in the high latitudes where , even in summer , we could expect fog , rain and cold .
21 Those in the Culpeper vault at Hollingbourne , Kent , fall into this category , though it is just possible that the flat-lidded rectangular shell encasing Elizabeth Culpeper ( d.1638 ) did have an outer case .
22 Although the government has tightened up rules at the slaughterhouse , and taken action to stop infected meat reaching our food , it 's still JUST possible that diseased meat scraps might reach some meat products .
23 ‘ Well , it 's just possible that anything you had from Emor might still be there .
24 At 500 yards distance it was just possible that we could have been mistaken .
25 It 's just possible that when the two of you were hunting for a means of rescuing the marchioness she could have pulled herself out and reached firm ground . "
26 ? It 's not an animal , but it 's just possible that it 's a dog .
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 It was just possible that the kidnappers might show it to him .
29 It was unlikely , but just possible that he might have news of John .
30 ‘ It 's just possible that I may be able to help you . ’
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