Example sentences of "[conj] it be possible that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 " Or it is possible that exaggerated stories have got about of the valuables in Moorlake .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 :
5 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 .
6 On March 28 an Interior Ministry spokesperson said that it was possible that former Communist leader Todor Zhivkov himself might be implicated in the crimes committed in the camps .
7 They noted , however , that it was possible that excessive protectiveness could result from having an abnormal child rather than the reverse .
8 Mr Justice Stegmann , who sentenced her in May , said that it was possible that another court might reach a different verdict .
9 They concluded , however , that it was possible that social networks have a modest association with mental health even though they offer little protection against acute stress .
10 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 .
11 This underwater world has not yet been thoroughly explored , so it is possible that unknown monsters exist there .
12 But all of them are constantly watching the keyboard for their particular call up command and it is possible that one command may affect more than one accessory — with predictable , and disastrous , results !
13 One of the regions adjacent to Surrey which is referred to in Frithuwald 's charter is Sonning , the province of the Suningas in east Berkshire , and it is possible that one of the three sub-kings who witnessed with Frithuwald ruled here , in which case Wulfhere 's presence in Berkshire was already established at the time of Frithuwald 's grant .
14 Both Thoc1 and Thoc3 have a single open reading frame and it is possible that one of the two methionine residues at nucleotides 76 and 94 ( Figure 1 ) is used for translational initiation in vivo .
15 Steers ( 1953 ) has stressed the importance of vegetation and of dune formation in the history of offshore bars on the north Norfolk coast , which will be discussed below , and it is possible that slight changes of base level may also be important in the initial stages of some offshore bars .
16 We do not , however , have the diagnoses of all patients who died between three months and two years , and it is possible that chronic renal disease was a factor in some of these .
17 Most of the terraces are preserved as flattenings on spurs and it is possible that similar features might result from wasting of a spur due to attack by the headward erosion of valleys on either side .
18 Further research is needed in this area and it is possible that important abnormalities in the ‘ modulating ’ apoproteins may be found .
19 In the case of Venus you can see from Figure 5.2 that the abundances of C and N are fairly similar to those on the Earth , and it is possible that this is true of the planets as a whole .
20 It does seem that since the last investigation certain development work , " Minerall Adventures , " had been carried out and it is possible that this was in progress at that time .
21 Although age and sex did not influence the results , enhanced synthesis of lipoxygenase products has been reported in the synovial fluid and tissue of patients with rheumatoid arthritis or spondyloarthritis and it is possible that this was a confounding variable .
22 A few , indeed , were alleged to have lived beyond a hundred , and it is possible that some of the cases were authentic .
23 The two 1973 elections , i.e. for Local Government as well as the Assembly , were held immediately after the advertising campaign and the electorate could concentrate on one method of voting , but since that time two Westminster elections were conducted by means of the X-vote , and it is possible that some voters may have been confused .
24 Of course , some bivalves , like mussels and oysters , do remain fixed throughout their adult life , and it is possible that these fill the ecological role today of some of the large brachiopods of the Palaeozoic .
25 Synthesis of LTB 4 by gastric mucosal epithelial cells has been reported and it is possible that these are an important source of the increased concentrations we have seen in patients taking NSAIDs .
26 Indeed , several tenth-century royal consorts are shadowy figures of doubtful legitimacy , and it is possible that Æthelred 's first , who like Ælfgifu of Northampton never witnesses charters , was not a fully-married wife .
27 Administrators , on the other hand , are entirely the creatures of statute and it is possible that different considerations apply to administrators than apply to administrative receivers on the question of unregistered companies .
28 He said some services would have to be reduced , some would be more expensive and it was possible that some would eventually go altogether .
29 Additionally , it has been reported that circulating PYY concentrations are raised in patients with malabsorption and it was possible that high colonic fatty acid concentrations may be responsible for this exaggerated PYY release .
30 However , he cared little about his life at this time , and it was possible that this lone female might be in need of courteous assistance .
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