Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem . |
| 2 | In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely . |
| 3 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 4 | It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children . |
| 5 | It may even be that some ingredients were added from outer space , brought by meteorites . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it may well be that such birds are conditioned to this colour and it has been shown that nectar quality can overcome colour prejudice . |
| 7 | We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival . |
| 8 | Because it may well be that that land would n't be considered being part of the conservation area . |
| 9 | It may well be that several groups have had a burglary , in which case the teacher could use this as the focus : " How are we going to deal with it ? |
| 10 | If he is right , it may well be that this policeman has finally made the break from vulgar self-advertisement into the megalomaniac personality cult fantasies of a Kim Il Sung or a Robert Maxwell . |
| 11 | It may well be that this building was the Quartermasters Stores originally . |
| 12 | It may well be that this development makes matters worse . |
| 13 | It may well be that this reduction in severity of symptoms has brought the symptoms of NSU much closer to those of gonorrhoea and thereby exaggerated their importance . |
| 14 | erm But in terms of public order crimes , it may well be that this sort of view does not act as a preventative to erm prevent the same thing happening again . |
| 15 | In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests . |
| 16 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 17 | Now it may well be that some people will transfer from S I S into B S G , I do n't know yet , erm |
| 18 | It may simply be that more people are taking advantage of higher social security benefits to spend more time searching for suitable jobs . |
| 19 | and there ca n't be that many authorities left that are n't already involved . |
| 20 | It may however be that this type of procedural check is not the most effective in this area . |
| 21 | Well there wo n't be that many cars off two houses , but I would also like to add |
| 22 | In a third part , the objection must be that with respect to confirmed hypotheses as to condition-sets , it can not be that those condition-sets are causal circumstances as conceived . |