Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I can only speak for London Branch , socialites we may be but professional fund-raisers ? |
| 2 | It may be that higher doses of charcoal ( equivalent to those used of terra fullonica and kaopectate ) would be as effective in this model . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It may be that greater understanding of homosexuals is called for and that all measures aimed at countering misunderstanding should be welcomed . |
| 5 | It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 8 | It may be that one strand of his personality has not yet matured , and even if it never does , that does not mean that he does not love you . |
| 9 | There are slight stylistic differences in the execution of the relief work , and it may be that one cup is an exotic , a Minoan import , and the other was made by a Mycenean craftsman to make a pair ; on balance , I think it more likely that both are Minoan ( Figure 31 ) . |
| 10 | It may be that one partner is so involved with their own painful feelings during the experiences of midlife , that there is no room for the other 's needs . |
| 11 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 12 | It may be that one cell which habitually fed by flowing round other particles , took some bacteria and blue-greens within it and these , instead of being digested , survived to collaborate in a communal life of hitherto unparalleled intimacy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may be that many children will live for years with only episodes of severe illness . |
| 15 | The underlying assumption is that this age gap between pupils in the same class is not important , but it may be that younger children are at a disadvantage educationally . |
| 16 | It may be that few people in Japan have yet made this connection , or realise the sheer scale of the catastrophe in Africa . |
| 17 | It may be that these cases are an authorial slip ; but the point seems to be that Lok is shown painfully developing analytic skills . |
| 18 | And it may be that these disadvantages help to cause parental difficulties , and hamper good parenting . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It may be that these ways of speaking can be explicated at bottom only by way or the idea of necessitation . |
| 27 | Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It may be that most managers decide job evaluation is very difficult , extremely time-consuming , and too expensive . |