Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] be that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 2 | It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation . |
| 3 | Not all summons forms can be used as addresses ( e.g. hey you in ( 47 ) can not occur in the slot occupied by Madam in ( 48 ) ) , although it may be that all addresses can be used as summonses ( Zwicky , 1974 : 791 ) . |
| 4 | It may be that such moves towards a willingness to detach comment from political allegiance and dogma is a passing fad but it does also suggest that many journalists are uneasy about blind , albeit volunteered , political commitment . |
| 5 | It may be that many children will live for years with only episodes of severe illness . |
| 6 | It may be that few people in Japan have yet made this connection , or realise the sheer scale of the catastrophe in Africa . |
| 7 | It may be that these cases are an authorial slip ; but the point seems to be that Lok is shown painfully developing analytic skills . |
| 8 | And it may be that these disadvantages help to cause parental difficulties , and hamper good parenting . |
| 9 | If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism . |
| 10 | It may be that these West Saxon kings were obliged to join the Mercian ruler on occasion at least in his military campaigns , as indeed earlier kings had assisted Penda and Wulfhere . |
| 11 | It may be that these differences in proliferative organisation between the skin and oesophagus explain why metaplasia and cancer are relatively rare in response to contact carcinogens in the former but common in the latter epithelium . |
| 12 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 13 | Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area . |
| 14 | On the contrary , it is a matter of great urgency that the mother 's case should be heard because , at the end of the day , it may be that these children should live in the future with their mother . |
| 15 | It may be that these portfolios both have the same level of expected return but the APT points out they are subject to very different types of risk . |
| 16 | It may be that these ways of speaking can be explicated at bottom only by way or the idea of necessitation . |
| 17 | Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate . |
| 18 | It may be that both cases are standard , pre-wired back-up ploys : differentiating tripped from untripped flowers could simply be a far more precise use of the associative learning program , while chewing through may be a strategy normally held in reserve for robbing flowers too small to enter . |
| 19 | At the present time , it is not possible to distinguish between the other alternative explanations , though it may be that both factors operate to modulate the pattern of frequencies recorded at the body surface . |
| 20 | It may be that most managers decide job evaluation is very difficult , extremely time-consuming , and too expensive . |
| 21 | As offending during the currency of a community order will not necessarily be a ground under Criminal Justice Act 1991 for re-sentencing an offender who is subject to a community order , and failure to respond to a community order must be disregarded when considering whether an offence is sufficiently serious to justify a custodial sentence ( s.29(1) ) , it may be that this decision will become particularly important under the new legislation . |
| 22 | This situation is common in many academic areas , as I have discovered talking to colleagues , and it may be that this state of inflation and over-production is economically unavoidable , that many inferior books have to be published in order to let the good ones appear . |
| 23 | It may be that this goddess was worshipped at the peak sanctuaries , where it is known that pyres were lit ; the later Artemis cult also involved mountain-top bonfires . |
| 24 | Mr Lambert said : ‘ It may be that this man was hitch-hiking or waiting for a lift . ’ |
| 25 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |
| 26 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 27 | It may be that this prophecy lies behind the account of the expulsion from the Temple of those who bought and sold . |
| 28 | It may be that this analysis could show universities those regions where particular methodologies , previously untried , may yield useful new information . |
| 29 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 30 | Well we do n't have a definite answer erm Gill but we think it may have experienced a shock of some sort during that season and of course when this happens to fruit trees they can go into bi-annual cropping and then they come back again , it may be that this horse chestnut 's experienced something very similar . |