Example sentences of "possibly [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 2 | She paid her ten pence at the glass cage of the entrance booth , to a young man who could not possibly be the custodian , Great-Uncle Alan 's contemporary , but was clearly something rather more scholarly than a mere gate-keeper . |
| 3 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
| 4 | Stripped of all the trimmings , the plot depends finally on one " trick " , causing the reader to assume that an ignorant servant could not possibly be the writer of the elaborate legal phraseology of the threatening notes , whereas in fact the fellow has copied the phrases from the legal paraphernalia all about the house . |
| 5 | ‘ What can possibly be the problem ? |
| 6 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 7 | Nobody else could possibly be the target . |
| 8 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 9 | Could it possibly be the accountant Edward Morris ? |
| 10 | I kept hearing these small explosions and I wondered what could possibly be the cause . |
| 11 | Could this possibly be the truth surrounding one Michel de Nostredame ? |
| 12 | How could that possibly be the fulfilment of a wish ? |