Example sentences of "[adv] possible that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Although the government has tightened up rules at the slaughterhouse , and taken action to stop infected meat reaching our food , it 's still JUST possible that diseased meat scraps might reach some meat products .
3 And it is just possible that Western ideas in psychiatry could be incorporated into a relativity model .
4 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 .
5 It is just possible that these properties would be sufficient , together with the abilities required by specific tasks , to engender a coordinated interdigitation of actions that would ( remotely ) resemble human interaction .
6 In this case the misgivings appear to be unfounded , but it does highlight the need for adequate controls on such experiments , both from a national and international perspective , since it is always possible that genetic engineering firms , which are now proliferating in the USA , Japan and northwest Europe , will turn to those , usually developing countries , where regulations are not as strict as those of , for example , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in the USA .
7 Although direct associations between the context and the target stimulus can play little part in the effect , it is still possible that associative interference might be responsible , in whole or in part , for latent inhibition .
8 It is also possible that many advertisers were put off by the political tone .
9 It is also possible that one organization adopts all five simultaneously !
10 It is also possible that more women were attracted to the idea of site-specific work .
11 It is also possible that seasonal meeting places had already been determined for the exchange of goods and people as well as social intercourse .
12 It is also possible that cultural adaptations during this phase may have selected genetic bases for behaviour in ways that ensured the development of social strategies designed to ensure that individuals fitted well into the existing social structure .
13 The current position is that the language of the Convention suggests one conclusion , while the intentions of the parties another ; it is also possible that those intentions changed after the negotiations precisely because of the changed stance of the United States .
14 However , it is also possible that these domains might not be directly involved in the association but that deletions of these regions might induce a conformational change of each protein , affecting the interaction .
15 It is also possible that non-price competition , in terms of quality of products , can be stimulated by the creation of a CU .
16 On the other hand , it is also possible that some abortions that were originally induced by primitive or illegal means will be finally treated by medical personnel and reported as spontaneous abortion .
17 as if to emphasise the relative longevity of this sequence , however , it is also possible that some mosaics might pre-date the sequences of simple geometric and Orphic pavements .
18 It is also possible that some research is directed towards developing a technique , methodology , computer program , or piece of equipment which has wide applicability , but whose initial testing was carried out within some field of Scottish geology .
19 It is also possible that some research is directed towards developing a technique , methodology , computer program , or piece of equipment which has wide applicability , but whose initial testing was carried out within some field of Scottish geology .
20 Is it similarly possible that these emotions are not a consequence of the dream but of the apparently haphazard interaction between midbrain and hindbrain activity during REM sleep ?
21 It is even possible that acoustic recording techniques dictated the popularity of the fox-trot , which to modern ears is a very four-square and unsophisticated rhythm .
22 It is equally possible that these officials were billeted on local householders , a practice which became increasingly common among Roman army units in the late empire .
23 It is quite possible that that arrangement is the one that is most conducive to the public good .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ?
27 It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on .
28 It is quite possible that some selection factors may point towards your retention while others will , in comparison , favour colleagues .
29 It 's quite possible that some MPs will try and talk the bill out .
30 In all the confusion , it was quite possible that some people would be flying on Virgin Atlantic for nothing .
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