Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Was n't it possible that a man of Jamie 's age might be more able to cope with her feminism , her academic success ?
32 Is n't it possible that the informant deliberately told the kidnappers I would be there , knowing what the consequences were likely to be ? ’
33 Was n't it likely that the thing that had got into him at the seance was really from the planet Tellenor ?
34 In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view .
35 Yet there were certain groups who saw either their own or the nation 's interests as being intimately bound up with an aggressive anti-French foreign policy .
36 Liebknecht 's attempt to hold an anti-war rally in the Potsdamer Platz on May 1st , 1916 , was not yet anything more than a flash in the pan .
37 Lambourn was never anything greater than a country market .
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