Example sentences of "[conj] it is possible [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might have had a brief illness best treated outside the home , or it is possible that the balance of her mind was disturbed in some way . |
| 2 | " Or it is possible that exaggerated stories have got about of the valuables in Moorlake . |
| 3 | In both cases , the breccias are thought to be exclusively developed in the Z1 Carbonate , although it is possible that the upper part of the reservoir in Auk may represent a collapsed portion of the Z2 Carbonate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 6 | It so happens that for some distance the Gill itself forms the boundary between that estate and the Manor of Coniston , although it is possible that the boundary between the two manors was rather ill-defined at that time . |
| 7 | This is approximately measured by the number of index terms assigned to a document ( although it is possible that more than one index term may be necessary to represent some themes ) . |
| 8 | The examples in ( 8 ) are representative : ( 8 ) the visiting scientists are nuclear farmers who will qualify are arable the expert was meteorological Ascriptive adjectives on the other hand may freely occur predicatively ( although it is possible that in some cases an ascriptive adjective may be excluded for different reasons ) . |
| 9 | While in this state , no further modifications may be entered , although it is possible that a quality rejection would cause the DC to re-enter the active state . |
| 10 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 11 | The distinction between steady-state subduction and plate collision at convergent boundaries is due to the resistance of continental crust and island arcs to subduction , although it is possible that the latter can be subducted . |
| 12 | Events which have been implicated in schizophrenia are of a more everyday nature ( although it is possible that many also have a private meaning ) , and a very wide range of emotionally arousing events may trigger a relapse . |
| 13 | In divertissements , although it is possible that they reflected the spectacle in some way when dances were characterized , large-scale key-changes seem to have been brought in mainly for the sake of musical variety . |
| 14 | Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem . |
| 15 | Lillian Faderman accepts that women 's relations may have been less physical in the past , but asserts that it is possible that such relations were still lesbian : |
| 16 | As the Ruddock case has shown , the standard of review employed in national security cases is set so high that it is possible that the Tribunal could be compelled to refrain from interfering with discretionary decisions taken for this reason . |
| 17 | The Breton later became part originator of the Canadian breed , so that it is possible that the genes of the extinct small Cornish cattle are perpetuated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 18 | We have seen above that it is possible that some individuals may wish to work fewer hours and take more leisure as a result of an increase in the real wage . |
| 19 | Please remember that , as Midland Lifetime is a unit-linked plan , the price of units can go down as well as up , and that it is possible that their value may fall below the amount originally invested . |
| 20 | The argument from analogy with which we shall be concerned here admits that it is possible that the objects we call persons are , other than ourselves , mindless automata , but claims that we none the less have sufficient reason for supposing this not to be the case . |
| 21 | A year earlier Matisse had show his painting Le Bonheur de Vivre ( Barnes Foundation , Merrion , Penn. ) at the Salon des Indépendants , where it had received a great deal of attention , and during the winter of 1907 Derain was engaged in painting a canvas of bathers ( Museum of Modern Art , New York ) which he intended to show at the Indépendants of 1907 , so that it is possible that the Demoiselles may have been prompted by a spirit of rivalry . |
| 22 | The article states : ’ estimates of the project 's cost have escalated from £457 million to £1.4 billion ’ — the figure mentioned by my hon. Friend — and that it is possible that the scheme will not go ahead . |
| 23 | Well I think that it is possible that as a result of the reporting of the Shadow Cabinet elections , that the sense was out in the public that somehow this was a setback for women , and that Labour |
| 24 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 25 | For example , I can say that Jones is behaving just like Smith did , and we now know that Smith behaved as he did because he had feelings of being persecuted , so it is possible that Jones has feelings of being persecuted , too . |
| 26 | We know from the temple archives at Knossos that the geographical reach of the administrators was exceptional , so it is possible that ivory carvers in Palaikastro were employed and controlled by the Zakro priests . |
| 27 | Similar to ( age-related ) personal allowance , the married couple 's age-related increases are subject to a couple 's income so it is possible that they might get less than the full addition — or maybe nothing extra at all . |
| 28 | Both objectives require the application of higher level knowledge to identify inconsistencies at individual levels , so it is possible that techniques developed for recognition applications could contribute to the development of text understanding systems . |
| 29 | It also appears that just as Belfast speakers can merge pairs like pack and peck , so it is possible that patterns of merger , or near-merger , of such pairs might have been observable in EModE . |
| 30 | A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex . |