Example sentences of "seem possible [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Over the weekend , when it still seemed possible that Baldwin would resign in the next few days , Sydney Arnold and Lees Smith advised MacDonald not to take office , on the grounds that a Labour Government would be bound to fail and that the party would then be ‘ overwhelmed ’ .
2 Only a week earlier on Palm Sunday , it seemed possible that Jesus could have led a rebellion against the hated Romans .
3 In London there were doubts as to whether the likely trade justified the expense of full diplomatic representation : it still seemed possible that Japan 's ports would be used mainly by whaling ships in the north Pacific rather than by merchantmen .
4 Since N-Oct 5 proteins contain only the POU DNA-binding domain and lack the homopolymeric glutamine and glycine stretches ( see Figure 1 and 2 ) , it seemed possible that N-Oct 5 would inhibit N-Oct 3 by competing for DNA-binding .
5 All brightness and colour had gone , and it seemed possible that Ilbrec had sent her right out of the world , away into nothingness .
6 For just a moment before the Elbow , it seemed possible that Llewellyn and Party Politics might join the sad company of might-have-beens , for whom the 494 yards of the Aintree run-in have turned dreams into nightmares .
7 But it now seems possible that Pask will never come back to court .
8 It even seems possible that Mushtaq 's idol , Abdul Qadir , the first leg-spinner since Chandrasekhar to take more than 200 Test wickets , will also tour .
9 But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row .
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