Example sentences of "a possibility that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're awaiting the results of an independent investigation into the force 's methods , and there 's a possibility that disciplinary action will be taken . |
| 2 | There is a possibility that rectal dialysis in patients with diarrhoea may reflect exchanges of fluid within the bag with faecal water in the rectum of these patients . |
| 3 | ‘ Research into communication between man and the dolphin may prove to be extremely useful if , and when , man makes contact with extra-terrestrial life — a possibility that many astronomers regard as almost inevitable . ’ |
| 4 | With the new set-aside agricultural policies , there is a possibility that cultivated parks can be put back to pasture . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless there is some event , some circumstance , some miracle that I can not see , then I repeat there is a possibility that that plant will cease to exist . ’ |
| 6 | In extreme circumstances when a situation escalates to a position where the client(s) can not be controlled by physical restraint , staff members should be prepared to vacate the room , even if there is a possibility that extensive damage may result . |
| 7 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 8 | Moreover , there is at least a possibility that local authorities will house them and their rent will be paid under housing costs . |
| 9 | The distinction between capital and maintenance schemes can sometimes amount to little more than an administrative technicality , and as grants for capital schemes are reduced , there is a possibility that old-style capital works will be slipped by under the banner of maintenance . |
| 10 | So since 1983 there has been a possibility that any estimate may be subjected to critical review by the House of Commons . |
| 11 | This clause and the adoption in Wihtred 's laws of the West Saxon term gesith for noble in place of the eorlcund of the laws of Aethelberht , Hlothhere and Eadric perhaps strengthen a possibility that some degree of collaboration attended the drawing up of these codes . |
| 12 | The present geological and palaeoecological evidence suggests that there is a possibility that some taxa with northern distributions today may have survived the entire last glaciation in parts of the Outer Hebrides ( cf. |
| 13 | ‘ There is a possibility that some information could be lost to us forever — but at the moment we do n't really know . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's obviously a possibility that this man could strike again , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a possibility that this chap will move to another university next year , but for the time being I 've had to look for a way to take the heat off . |
| 16 | There is also a possibility that this collaboration with the BBC may be a continuing one . |
| 17 | The morphology of the alveolar clivus supports this alternative , in which case Graecopithecus can be interpreted as a fossil hominine , but there is a possibility that this morphology represents an ancestral great ape character which was primitively retained in Graecopithecus and the hominines ( and was independently further modified to produce the more derived orang-utan condition ) . |