Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [be] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It may be that many children will live for years with only episodes of severe illness . |
| 4 | It may be that these cases are an authorial slip ; but the point seems to be that Lok is shown painfully developing analytic skills . |
| 5 | And it may be that these disadvantages help to cause parental difficulties , and hamper good parenting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It may be that these ways of speaking can be explicated at bottom only by way or the idea of necessitation . |
| 13 | Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may be that most managers decide job evaluation is very difficult , extremely time-consuming , and too expensive . |
| 17 | For example , it may be that some services ( or sectors ) have developed better indicators of quality or effectiveness than others , and that it may be possible to transfer their experience . |
| 18 | It may be that some visitors will get no further than this area ! |
| 19 | It may be that some areas are running out of money er which clearly need money , maybe there 's other areas are in surplus with the demands on them that are n't so great , so the answer may simply be to find a way of operating with greater flexibility within the total cash limit . |
| 20 | It may be that some couples cohabit initially because they are uncertain about the strength of their relationship so their subsequent marital breakdown could be attributed to these underlying doubts , rather than the ‘ destructive ’ experience of cohabitation . |
| 21 | It may be that those parents do not consider colour to be important , but such a blind attitude towards the role of group differences in the society is unwise . |
| 22 | It may be that those universities which are very strong in geophysical research , such as Edinburgh , Cambridge , and Durham , have the influence in the earth sciences which they do , because much of their research work is published in a journal which is more influential than the core earth science journals . |
| 23 | It may be that those aspects of a curriculum , such as skills which are readily expressible in behavioural terms could usefully be laid down in some detail while other aspects , such as problem solving would be more loosely specified or , perhaps , not specified at all . |
| 24 | It may be that several disciplines can be brought to bear fruitfully upon an area ( Europe ) , period ( Enlightenment ) , problem ( traffic congestion ) , or theme ( Pastoral ) while still maintaining their distinct identity ; in which case the term ‘ multidisciplinary ’ ( OECD 1972 ) becomes appropriate . |