Example sentences of "possible that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is possible that avian death-feigning is tuned in to this one crucial moment of possible escape . |
| 2 | Of course it is possible that neither of these political showbiz programmes would actually survive even until the interval . |
| 3 | But it 's very possible that neither of those will make the final at all . |
| 4 | It 's possible that 1992 will be a year for sprinters . |
| 5 | Clearly , this kind of work would not be undertaken unless it was thought possible that causal relationships between variables might exist , just as a medical researcher might hypothesize a causal relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer , or as a historical linguist might hypothesize that a contributory cause of palatalization of [ k ] is an adjacent front vowel . |
| 6 | Indeed it is possible that many people recognise subconsciously that the hypothesis is not merely unprovable , but false ; certainly many drift away from an active interest in the subject . |
| 7 | It is at least possible that many young children would view ‘ the cat ’ as a quite specific cat — the family cat , Simon 's cat , Grandma 's cat . |
| 8 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
| 9 | It is also possible that many advertisers were put off by the political tone . |
| 10 | While some landforms may have been so produced , it is possible that many of them may be relict forms subject to little later modification . |
| 11 | Since only a limited number of booklets had been issued to each school , it seemed possible that many teachers might well have seen and used it , a section at a time , in the form of photocopied sheets . |
| 12 | It is possible that many with irritable bowel syndrome patients have a pan-intestinal motor disorder , and that extra-alimentary sites innvervated by the autonomic nervous system , such as the bladder , are involved . |
| 13 | It is possible that many of the anti-microbial antibodies described in inflammatory bowel disease and other inflammatory disease states , may in fact be reflections of immunisation against microbial heat-shock proteins , which has been implied in the pathogenesis of several autoimmune disease states and which may induce anti-lactoferrin antibodies ( see below ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Football has become the focus for a new kind of identity for working-class male youth and it is quite possible that other forms of sport — cricket for instance — will be similarly used . |
| 16 | Although we may want to reject Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) specific formulation , it remains possible that other versions of associative theory might be able to explain the findings on context-specificity . |
| 17 | Expanding upon his conversation at the Paris airshow ( see the August issue ) , Yakovlev noted that , ‘ It is possible that other types of single-engined Yak replicas or restorations will appear . ’ |
| 18 | The member countries of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) were seeking establishment of a wider European economic space ( EEC ) in which they would have a " close and structured partnership " with the EC [ see p. 37535 ] , although it remained possible that other EFTA member countries besides Austria would opt to seek full EC membership . |
| 19 | Given that the recognition of the significance of portal hypertension in portopulmonary hypertension is recent , it is possible that other cases of PBC associated primary PHT have been dismissed as merely associated with liver disease . |
| 20 | It is possible that other base tag sets will be added in the future . |
| 21 | It is possible that other radioactive metals such as plutonium could be similarly dealt with . |
| 22 | While waiting for an ambulance it is possible that first aid carried out immediately would save a patient from choking or bleeding to death . |
| 23 | For the most part it made use of trackways already established and ancient , though it is possible that new pieces of track were trampled out where the direct line required it . |
| 24 | A quarter of the present patients had no identifiable gastrointestinal infection/infestation ; it is possible that new organisms or occult infection are implicated , and , although unlikely given the absence of CD4 receptors on healthy biliary epithelium , HIV may itself damage the biliary tree . |
| 25 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 26 | It is therefore quite possible that two cells in a daughter will be more distant relatives of one another than either is to cells in the parent plant . |
| 27 | It is also possible that two of these constituents in their liquid form substitute for water as a suspension medium for organic compounds . |
| 28 | Once the legislator 's choice is admitted as a source of content it is entirely possible that two positive legislators will not only determine a concept differently but will determine a concept in a contradictory fashion . |
| 29 | It is not clear how such appointments related to the right of the steward of a specific lordship to appoint his own deputy , but it is possible that two deputies coexisted . |
| 30 | When there is no mobility of labour across jurisdictions , it is possible that two identical individuals residing in two different jurisdictions may obtain different net fiscal benefits . |