Example sentences of "it is possible [that] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that lithium has an effect on the conduction in an axon by replacing the sodium ion and it is used in the treatment of depressive illness . |
| 2 | It is possible that Storr continued the concern , Fogelberg perhaps acting as the sleeping partner . |
| 3 | For example , I can say that Jones is behaving just like Smith did , and we now know that Smith behaved as he did because he had feelings of being persecuted , so it is possible that Jones has feelings of being persecuted , too . |
| 4 | It is possible that pollution affects their reproductive and immune systems , but there has only been piecemeal research on this subject . " |
| 5 | It is possible that Minton chose this subject , in which the relevance of the Crucifixion is cancelled out by the attention given to a game of chance , as an expression of his own despair at the malignancy of fate . |
| 6 | If the explanation of affinity is true , then it is possible that spermatozoa produced by a male hybrid would contain only the paternal chromosomes , and will therefore carry the Y sex chromosome , a donkey-Y in male mules and a horse-Y in male hinnies . |
| 7 | It is possible that Plynus embodies some of Leapor 's misgivings about rising from her station . |
| 8 | These mobile pieces of DNA ( called transposons ) share many features in common with the genetic material of some viruses and it is possible that viruses have evolved from them . |
| 9 | Dom Grossard need not be correct ; certainly Pérignon perfected the art of producing starbright white wines , but it is possible that others succeeded before him — the fame of the white wines of Aÿ , for example , suggests this . |
| 10 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 11 | The reference here to the ‘ University ’ is almost certainly exclusive to Cambridge but it is possible that Green had in mind its implications in a wider context . |
| 12 | Green was fulsome in his praise for Barker 's determined and generous efforts to reach an equitable settlement and it is possible that Green did acquaint the Chairman of the RAC with the unhappy position in Bedfordshire . |
| 13 | Both objectives require the application of higher level knowledge to identify inconsistencies at individual levels , so it is possible that techniques developed for recognition applications could contribute to the development of text understanding systems . |
| 14 | All were controlled for long periods with endoscopic treatment altough it is possible that obstruction contributed to death in one patient . |
| 15 | Presentation will not be graded , but candidates and tutors must be aware that unless a marketing standard of presentation is achieved it is possible that points made will go unnoticed by the examiners . |
| 16 | Put bluntly , it is possible that couples decided to ‘ have baby Austins rather than baby boys . ’ |
| 17 | If subjects actually experienced risk while watching the films then it is possible that attention focusing might have taken place and systematically biased the information subsequently described by subjects . |
| 18 | However , it is possible that Jupiter resembles Figure 9.10 today without having followed this particular evolution . |
| 19 | It is possible that chromaticism favours the use of true intervals ; certainly the high degree of chromaticism in serialism goes well with canonic usages . |
| 20 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 21 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 22 | Of course , these considerations may lead firms collectively to undertake absurdly ambitious , big science projects when more modest research programmes would be optimal , and it is possible that research conducted collectively will be less well managed than a series of smaller scale independent projects ( the incentive to control costs may be weakened when costs are shared , and centralizing research efforts can often narrow their scope considerably ) . |
| 23 | It is possible that LIFESPAN has been unable to create the output file for the mail in your current directory as the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |
| 24 | It is possible that patients colonised with the organism selectively stop their NSAID treatment because of dyspeptic symptoms . |
| 25 | It is possible that ethanol liberates hstamine from cells containing histamine in the gastric mucosa . |
| 26 | It is possible that Mexico has also been approached , but again there is no indication that the latter has proved responsive to such an offer . |