Example sentences of "possible that this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , possible that this animal is a hunting dog similar to the types on Colchester vessels . |
| 2 | It is possible that this leakage was caused by minute perforations of the gall bladder allowing transudation of bile , that healed by the time of cholecystoscopy . |
| 3 | It is possible that this disparity of purpose contributes to the discrepancy in performance indicated above . |
| 4 | ‘ It is possible that this incident might be linked with them , but it is very difficult to say . ’ |
| 5 | It has been argued that compression of the abdomen increases the ‘ pinchcock ’ effect of the angular incisura and so it is possible that this manoeuvre could actually prevent reflux in some patients . |
| 6 | It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there . |
| 7 | It is possible that this expression is sometimes used to reinforce a plural reference pattern in circumstances where such a reference pattern may be overshadowed by the potential for singular reference . |
| 8 | It is possible that this increase may have been , on the one hand , indicative of a greater frequency of homosexual activity ‘ in public ’ and , hence , of a degree of ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 9 | We initiated the solution of P2 by solving LP ( 1 , θ ) , but it is possible that this problem is unbounded whereas LP ( 1 , θ ) has a solution for some other values of θ . |
| 10 | I explained to her that , although I could make no promises , since she now felt much more confident about the technique it was quite possible that this session would reveal the cause of her phobia . |
| 11 | Its cause is not fully understood , but in view of the known connection between infra-red reflectance and water content on the one hand , and the demonstrated correlation between exposure to a low humidity regime and a decline in the measurement on the other , it is possible that this behaviour is related to reflectance . |
| 12 | It is clear from these data that the capacity to form and present this influenza epitope has been returned to the T2/TAP1+2 transfectant , although it is possible that this capacity is suboptimal . |
| 13 | It is possible that this surface , which is not entirely obliterated in the intercrater plains , predates almost all the craters on Mercury . |
| 14 | It might be possible that this rearrangement of the gene reflects differences in gastric mucosal structure and function between patients with gastric body ulcer and patients with gastric angular or antral ulcer and patients with duodenal ulcer . |
| 15 | It is possible that this year we 'll have hunt saboteurs to contend with . |
| 16 | It was possible that this ineptitude revealed incipient senility . |
| 17 | It is possible that this form of political organization is more conducive to non-competitive peaceful behaviour but , as many instances from New Guinea and Amazonia show , it is certainly no guarantee of it . |
| 18 | It is possible that this difference of opinion was pre-arranged and intended simply to minimize the extent of the cooperation between Richard and Philip as a preliminary to the new proposal which the King of France now made and which clearly had been worked out between them . |
| 19 | It is entirely possible that this mechanism does operate , and that the members of a herd do use these clues when looking at one another . |
| 20 | It is possible that this statement commits us to a misnomer at the outset . |
| 21 | It seems just possible that this reversal of hand causes sufficient unwinding of the super helix into which the DNA is wound to prevent the gene being transcribed . |
| 22 | As bile salts release PYY and PYY has been reported to slow intestinal transit time , it seemed possible that this peptide plays a role in the regulation of ileal motility . |
| 23 | It is possible that this appearance of non-particulateness is illusory , and that the analogy with genes does not break down . |
| 24 | On 2 October 1990 the inspector requested accounts of and details of transactions with one of the plaintiff 's subsidiaries , B ( Pte ) Ltd ( a Singapore company ) , as it was possible that this information would lead to the amendment of existing assessments . |
| 25 | It was more than possible that this businessman was in the business of spying . |
| 26 | There is sixteenth-century orthographic evidence , which we shall further discuss in chapter 5 , that suggests some distribution of low vowel realizations for /Ε/; in London English of the period : it seems possible that this pattern of lowering of historic short vowels has been overtaken in recent standard English and Central Scots by a pattern of raising and ( in the latter case ) lengthening . |
| 27 | It is possible that this effect on ileal motor activity may facilitate absorption of bile salts in the ileum by the ‘ ileal pump ’ mechanism by slowing intestinal transit time . |
| 28 | It seems possible that this material originates from rare mucosal endocrine cells expressing the gastrin gene . |