Example sentences of "possible that these [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible that these countries could become virtual havens for the continuing production of CFCs .
2 Because of the rigorous nature of fasting and bowel preparations before surgical resection of tumours , it seemed possible that these procedures could contribute to the hypocholesterolaemiac state .
3 Now it is quite possible that these players could all bounce back through the mini tour , or through invitations gained in 1991 , but it does indicate what an unpredictable game golf is .
4 Is it similarly possible that these emotions are not a consequence of the dream but of the apparently haphazard interaction between midbrain and hindbrain activity during REM sleep ?
5 It is possible that these changes have been critical in generating the considerable crustal extension ( possibly up to 100 per cent ) calculated for the Basin and Range Province .
6 The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly .
7 And Grainne smiled briefly , because it was certainly possible that these thoughts were flowing outwards and being absorbed by the ancient stones .
8 It is possible that these differences reflect the availability of suitable timber , but it is difficult at present to determine the extent of woodland at a sufficient level of detail .
9 It is possible that these differences do not preclude these mosaics as works of the same mosaicist .
10 It is just possible that these properties would be sufficient , together with the abilities required by specific tasks , to engender a coordinated interdigitation of actions that would ( remotely ) resemble human interaction .
11 It was possible that these men were nothing but a strong feint designed to draw the allies towards Charleroi while the real French thrust , fuelled by the Emperor 's presence , attacked twenty-five miles to the west at Mons.
12 It is possible that these symptoms are due to hormonal upsets , caused by anti-bodies affecting the ovaries .
13 His lace assumes a natural look he 's able to sit up and breathe more normally and for a time seems well My dear Dr Dunstaple , perhaps you could explain to us why , if the symptoms are caused , as you seem to believe , by damage to the lungs or by a poison circulating in the blood and depressing the action of the heart … why it 's possible that these symptoms should thus be suspended by an injection of warm water holding a little salt in solution ? "
14 We would be the last to advocate wholesale belief in the utterances of governments , but it is at least possible that these protestations are sincere .
15 Is it possible that these cetaceans and odontocetes , hailing from beyond the wave base and thus unfamiliar with the self-generated noise of moving sediment , become disoriented by these acoustic signals on the same wavelength as their own systems ?
16 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 .
17 However , it is also possible that these domains might not be directly involved in the association but that deletions of these regions might induce a conformational change of each protein , affecting the interaction .
18 But is n't it possible that these traits do n't figure that largely in the lives of , at least , young people in Ireland today ?
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