Example sentences of "[pers pn] is possible that a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 From the unlikely beginning of an extreme and unremitting egocentricity , Hobbes has thus explained how it is possible that a civil society can come into being .
2 In many instances it is likely that these lowered rates of employment are the direct result of providing care , although in some cases it is possible that a temporary withdrawal from the labour market ( for example , because of redundancy or child-bearing ) may enable some women to take on informal caring responsibilities and delay their return to paid employment .
3 It is possible that a strong sense of teamwork , which was less apparent in other instances , had been engendered through such within-board activity .
4 A number of considerations need to be made , and it is possible that a combined method may be preferable .
5 It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume .
6 If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice .
7 It is possible that a substantial increase in demand for teacher education on language could develop in the next few years .
8 It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins .
9 It is possible that a dilated colon would generate only very low amplitude contractions that are not distinguished during manometric studies .
10 It is possible that a high-status tomb may yet be found entirely intact and that many gold and silver objects remain to be discovered by excavation .
11 It is possible that a third person might have entered the lavatory and been provoked into violence by what the defendant was doing — the woman 's partner , for example .
12 It is possible that a slow economic recovery and lower beef prices will coincide to increase consumption in the next few years but in the wake of consumer scares , such as BSE , the market needs a push .
13 However , it is possible that a bright flash observed on the Moon by five English monks in the summer of 1178 was the formation of Bruno , in which case it is about the only lunar crater that has ever been observed to form .
14 It is possible that a few minor markets did grow slowly from an earlier village but they are difficult to discover .
15 It is possible that a few cells or nuclei were damaged at the site of crypt bisection and damaged nuclei would not have been measured .
16 Alternatively , it is possible that a fundamental determinant of matrix-initiated cellular differentiation is a change in cell shape and size .
17 It is possible that an increased mucosal blood flow due to the inflammation per se can contribute to increased absorption .
18 It is possible that an enabling bill will be brought before Parliament next year , and the first trial could be within a year .
19 The canopy slates are old and similar to the main roof and it is possible that an earlier gallery stood here .
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