Example sentences of "[coord] it is [adv] possible [that] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 A version of it may have heartened the Normans in 1066 ; and it is even possible that the earliest surviving version was composed in Normandy .
4 And it is just possible that Western ideas in psychiatry could be incorporated into a relativity model .
5 However homoeopathy is very successful in veterinary practice and it is theoretically possible that suitable animal tests could be devised for the study of at least some homoeopathic remedies .
6 A Minority Government will hardly be able to deal with the situation , and it is quite possible that Your Majesty might be asked to approve of a National Government .
7 Football has become the focus for a new kind of identity for working-class male youth and it is quite possible that other forms of sport — cricket for instance — will be similarly used .
8 The antiquarian , Stukeley , noted it in 1740 , and it is quite possible that knowledge of this never died out locally .
9 Since Roberts 's book focuses on women , she necessarily highlights patterns of exchange which are specific to women , and it is quite possible that both duty and affection were ( and are ) more prominent in exchanges between women than when men are involved .
10 ( The growing scarcity of Persian village rugs is increasing their price , however , and it is quite possible that even the shoddiest of these will soon fall into the " medium category " ) .
11 And it is always possible that unknown to us the present world differs radically from the way it appears to us .
12 Some of these functions are best performed by University Institutes , some by a Curriculum Development Centre , some by a Curriculum Planning Unit and it is therefore possible that functions which may hitherto have been seen as either wholly performed by this body or that may increasingly be undertaken in partnership .
13 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 .
14 The younger O'Sullivans liked to tell this macabre tale and it is very possible that Poe , too , may have heard it .
15 And thought : and Floy is going off into the midst of all these and it is perfectly possible that I shall never see him again .
16 It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe .
17 We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week .
18 We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week .
19 But it is also possible that ( as he once hinted in a press conference ) he might have refused Marshall Aid rather than cave in to Anglo-American pressure on the German issue .
20 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 .
21 It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court .
22 It might , of course , mean that that particular person will readily be labelled ‘ deviant ’ , but it is equally possible that an individual could fully appreciate the attitude(s) of the generalized other and yet choose not to act within its framework .
23 Miron 's tentative conclusion is that older staff may become less concerned about teaching as they develop other priorities ; but it is equally possible that students are responding more similarly , and more favourably , to lecturers who are more like themselves .
24 But it is equally possible that he could spoil any chances he might have had by making some political slip .
25 ‘ They look at each individual case , but it is certainly possible that Liverpool will be punished for three red cards .
26 But it is quite possible that the programme could go ahead at some point , and it would be comparatively cheap .
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