Example sentences of "it is possible that [art] [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 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 .
6 It is possible that a substantial increase in demand for teacher education on language could develop in the next few years .
7 It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins .
8 It is possible that a dilated colon would generate only very low amplitude contractions that are not distinguished during manometric studies .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Alternatively , it is possible that a fundamental determinant of matrix-initiated cellular differentiation is a change in cell shape and size .
13 It is possible that an increased mucosal blood flow due to the inflammation per se can contribute to increased absorption .
14 It is possible that an enabling bill will be brought before Parliament next year , and the first trial could be within a year .
15 It is possible that the striking proliferative events started by TAGH in vivo reflect secondary actions of TAGH .
16 In fact , it is possible that the distinctive low-frequency sounds and hums generated by deserts , mountain tops and other locations act as homing beacons .
17 Indeed , it is possible that the black hole could emit a television set or the works of Proust in ten leatherbound volumes , but the number of configurations of particles that correspond to these exotic possibilities is vanishingly small .
18 Failing such developments , it is possible that the European Court will find the unprincipled and unpredictable system of libel awards to be a breach of Article 10 of the European Convention , under which all restrictions on freedom of expression must be " prescribed by law " .
19 Bouguereau has not been selling well at auction in recent years , and it is possible that the recent exhibition at Borghi & Co. in New York has stimulated a revival of interest in his work .
20 Thus it is possible that the chronic alcoholism reported in some socialist utopias in the East may have the same psychological roots as that so vividly described by the Spanish chroniclers of Inca Peru .
21 Nonetheless it is possible that the general relationship between response criterion bias and normality ratings reflects the operation of some form of schema at retrieval .
22 It is possible that the traditional tendency for researchers to exclude uncertainty variables from tested models may result in mis-specified models and false conclusions .
23 If the lamp remains on for a longer time it is possible that the incorrect outer ( track ) connection to the rotary potentiometer VR2 has been used .
24 Though this danger is now realised , it is possible that the current models are also incomplete and that some errors in the correspondence between the model and the observed data are due to insufficient sophistication in the model .
25 It is possible that the prospective commissioners will begin advising the Secretary of State on staffing matters next spring .
26 It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed .
27 The Anonimalle Chronicle 's account of de la Mare 's selection does not give the impression that it was usual to choose a speaker , though it is possible that the small groups which had appeared before the lords on behalf of the commons in earlier parliaments had chosen one of their number to speak on their behalf .
28 The question in the 1959 survey was open-ended , and it is possible that the great increase in preparedness to act is an artefact of the changed method of question administration .
29 It is possible that the entire animal kingdom is the inevitable by-product of the process .
30 It is possible that the entire text is a combination of description and recollection from the perspective of a single flight , in which case it takes place over the course of a few hours , the time it takes to read it .
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