Example sentences of "is possible that [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 From the unlikely beginning of an extreme and unremitting egocentricity , Hobbes has thus explained how it is possible that a civil society can come into being .
2 It is possible that a strong sense of teamwork , which was less apparent in other instances , had been engendered through such within-board activity .
3 In many instances it is likely that these lowered rates of employment are the direct result of providing care , although in some cases it is possible that a temporary withdrawal from the labour market ( for example , because of redundancy or child-bearing ) may enable some women to take on informal caring responsibilities and delay their return to paid employment .
4 It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume .
5 It is possible that a substantial increase in demand for teacher education on language could develop in the next few years .
6 It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins .
7 If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice .
8 A number of considerations need to be made , and it is possible that a combined method may be preferable .
9 ‘ It is possible that a slow economic recovery and lower beef prices will coincide to increase consumption in the next few years but in the wake of consumer scares , such as BSE , the market needs a push .
10 Alternatively , it is possible that a fundamental determinant of matrix-initiated cellular differentiation is a change in cell shape and size .
11 However , it is possible that a bright flash observed on the Moon by five English monks in the summer of 1178 was the formation of Bruno , in which case it is about the only lunar crater that has ever been observed to form .
12 It is possible that a third person might have entered the lavatory and been provoked into violence by what the defendant was doing — the woman 's partner , for example .
13 It is possible that a few minor markets did grow slowly from an earlier village but they are difficult to discover .
14 It is possible that a few cells or nuclei were damaged at the site of crypt bisection and damaged nuclei would not have been measured .
15 It is possible that a high-status tomb may yet be found entirely intact and that many gold and silver objects remain to be discovered by excavation .
16 It is possible that a dilated colon would generate only very low amplitude contractions that are not distinguished during manometric studies .
17 It is possible that an increased mucosal blood flow due to the inflammation per se can contribute to increased absorption .
18 It is possible that an enabling bill will be brought before Parliament next year , and the first trial could be within a year .
19 The canopy slates are old and similar to the main roof and it is possible that an earlier gallery stood here .
20 It is possible that the traditional tendency for researchers to exclude uncertainty variables from tested models may result in mis-specified models and false conclusions .
21 It is possible that the striking proliferative events started by TAGH in vivo reflect secondary actions of TAGH .
22 It is possible that the two women are one and the same , or that there is a serial killer on the prowl , but as none of Barbs 's friends or neighbours give a damn where she is , her continuing absence occasions little comment .
23 It is possible that the two men may have met in London .
24 Because PBC is felt to reflect immune dysfunction and autoimmunity has been suggested as a possible cause of primary PHT , it is possible that the two conditions are causally associated .
25 It is possible that the higher level knowledge sources will have to contribute to the scores of the paths being extended since , at present , no psychological or computational model of bottom-up analysis is powerful enough to guarantee correct recognition based on acoustic quality alone .
26 It is possible that the Outer Hebrides supported an independent small ice-cap ( Flinn , 1978 ; von Weymarn , 1979 ) .
27 It is possible that the subjective sensation experienced by a female bat when she perceives a male really is , " say , bright red : the same sensation as I experience when I see a flamingo .
28 It is possible that the entire animal kingdom is the inevitable by-product of the process .
29 It is possible that the entire text is a combination of description and recollection from the perspective of a single flight , in which case it takes place over the course of a few hours , the time it takes to read it .
30 If , as these authors postulate , the tumour exerts some type of inhibitory effect on the proliferation of the cells surrounding it , it is possible that the lower labelling index reported for the rectal segment is at least party related to a wider — that is , extending beyond a 5 cm radius — zone of inhibition produced by rectal tumours with respect to those arising in other colonic segments .
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