Example sentences of "[pers pn] is possible that a " 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 Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter .
3 It is possible that a cement mixer or a tower crane may go into action or other works be carried out , as a hotelier or apartments owner seeks to maintain or improve standards and facilities .
4 It is possible that a ‘ fire storm ’ condition developed in the town , similar to that which occurred in several German cities during the last war , when saturation bombing raids started so many fires that the city became effectively one big fire , sucking into itself hurricane force winds to bring fresh oxygen to the heart of the inferno .
5 First , it is possible that a too narrow definition of comparative costs would be used .
6 It is possible that a trust clause may have been omitted .
7 It is possible that a generation of children may grow up deprived of their entitlement — an introduction to the powerful and splendid history of the best that has been thought and said in our language .
8 It is possible that a mixture of all three levels of care might be indicated to meet the needs of one client .
9 It is possible that a figure of the King was once part of the scene , and that his heroic intervention in the face of disaster was part of the cult iconography .
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 The Bull Court at Knossos is not well preserved , but it is possible that a fence of some kind ran round its edge ; a fragment of fresco found in the Labyrinth shows a strongly made three-rail wooden fence with a priestess or attendant leaning on it , watching the spectacle .
12 Thus , if an individual deals on behalf of his company , it is possible that a company could be charged with aiding and abetting an offence under the legislation , or with conspiracy to commit an offence under the legislation .
13 It is possible that a domain such as Estate Agents will be adequately covered by the LOB corpus , due to its nature as a concrete , well-understood domain that is concerned with ’ everyday ’ words and concepts such as houses , towns , rooms , etc .
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 failure to distinguish between the two sexes can explain the lack of agreement .
16 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 .
17 It is possible that a substantial increase in demand for teacher education on language could develop in the next few years .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 It is possible that a strong sense of teamwork , which was less apparent in other instances , had been engendered through such within-board activity .
21 In horizontal mergers it is possible that a merger will allow exploitation of economies of scale .
22 A number of considerations need to be made , and it is possible that a combined method may be preferable .
23 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 .
24 It is possible that a piece of slate or glass has been cemented over the rodding arm .
25 It is possible that a dilated colon would generate only very low amplitude contractions that are not distinguished during manometric studies .
26 The stringent criteria for selecting our patients meant that we had few patients and it is possible that a difference in acid secretion between the patients with idiopathic DU and H pylori positive patients with DU could become apparent with greater numbers .
27 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 .
28 While in this state , no further modifications may be entered , although it is possible that a quality rejection would cause the DC to re-enter the active state .
29 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 .
30 Alternatively , it is possible that a fundamental determinant of matrix-initiated cellular differentiation is a change in cell shape and size .
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