Example sentences of "it is [adv] possible that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Jesus meant by this the ‘ outcasts ’ of Jewish society , although it is equally possible that he meant that God 's message — the kingdom — was for everyone , regardless of race . |
| 2 | It is equally possible that within such a framework schools and communities could offer curricula that reflected the responsiveness and diversity that many value . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is equally possible that these officials were billeted on local householders , a practice which became increasingly common among Roman army units in the late empire . |
| 7 | But it is equally possible that he could spoil any chances he might have had by making some political slip . |
| 8 | It is logically possible that the next brick to be released will ‘ fall ’ upwards . |
| 9 | It is logically possible that the difference between the behaviour of two types of animal could be genetically caused , but that both types could learn the behaviour in question . |
| 10 | It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps . |
| 11 | It is thus possible that the effect of the Great Conspiracy has been magnified in order to give Count Theodosius greater credibility in his programme of restoration . |
| 12 | It is thus possible that there exists today , in some archive , library or monastery in Ireland or Wales , a corpus of material comparable in value to the texts found at Nag Hammadi , or to the Dead Sea Scrolls . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is thus possible that Venus did once possess a large quantity of water . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was previously suggested that fixed information will tend to be peripheral to the driving task and variable information is more likely to be central , it is thus possible that the amount of these types of information will constrain any effects of attention focusing . |
| 17 | It is thus possible that if the splanchnic vasodilation could be overcome , there could be an amelioration in the systemic and renal circulation . |
| 18 | It is thus possible that the two exchangers have distinct functional roles and are selectively regulated . |
| 19 | It is thus possible that the α 1 AT gene is a susceptibility locus for alcohol induced liver damager . |
| 20 | It is thus possible that most of the tissue damage is caused by neutrophils generating free oxygen radicals and releasing lysosomal enzymes when in contact with a chemoattractant within the lumina propria . |
| 21 | It is thus possible that in the course of the next few years Council will assign the headship for a period to the holder of the Halford Mackinder Professorship , who will among those carrying an obligation to serve if so requested . |
| 22 | For although practices , and features of practices , are said to be mutually dependent , it is nevertheless possible that one may dominate the others in the sense that it is more efficacious in determining the character of other practices than they are in determining it . |
| 23 | Thus , while a ruling of the executive is helpful in determining a particular course of action , it is nevertheless possible that the ruling could be reversed subsequently by the application of the other party to the takeover or , possibly , an aggrieved shareholder . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) It is frequently possible that if one homoclinic orbit occurs at one parameter value , and another occurs at another parameter value , then certain general properties of an intermediate sequence of homoclinic orbits can be determined . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As for the earliest date of birth , it is theoretically possible that it could be 1855 , since the first recruits to the trade , some of whom were still working in the 1900s , were aged 18 in 1873 . |
| 27 | It is even possible that some might be low ‘ g ’ sensitive and be at risk if a low ‘ g ’ situation suddenly occurs . |
| 28 | It is even possible that if you decide to set up your own business , you may be able to claim for the initial costs of this . |
| 29 | It is even possible that acoustic recording techniques dictated the popularity of the fox-trot , which to modern ears is a very four-square and unsophisticated rhythm . |
| 30 | 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 . |