Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [adv] [be] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It may even be that some ingredients were added from outer space , brought by meteorites .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Thus , for example , in a police operational matter it may well be that one individual must make a decision and make that decision quickly .
5 It may well be that one consequence of increasing complexity will be a return to standard units .
6 It may well be that all these ladies simply grabbed the first thing in the wardrobe before rushing off to court , but I somehow doubt it .
7 Because it may well be that that land would n't be considered being part of the conservation area .
8 And it may well be that that we 'll have to you know make sure everybody who 's running a training course , gets this particular
9 Now it may well be that that is actually looking into a slightly longer term .
10 Now , of course , it may well be that such a vision exists in your church , and that to insist on the importance of spiritual warfare , some of you might say , is only to preach to the converted .
11 It may well be that such an approach is incommensurate with the difficulties presented by international disagreements and internal conflicts but it does suggest a way of looking at law which enhances its potential as an instrument for peace .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It may well be that many local-authority accountants have no detailed working knowledge of school-based financial-management systems — to give them a very grand title for their current state of development .
15 ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 .
16 It may well be that many apparently successful partnerships continue only because one party or the other does not trouble to examine the benefit they derive or the price they pay .
17 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 ?
18 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 .
19 Yet if many of the toxic chemicals that animals possess have evolved in order to aid survival , either by predation or protection , it may well be that some of these compounds could assist our own survival .
20 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 .
21 In that process , it may well be that some of those concerned in the management of the company , and others as well , have been guilty of some misconduct or impropriety which is of relevance to the liquidation .
22 Mr Lang now says : ‘ It may well be that some of the assumptions that Touche Ross made will be less relevant when the final decisions are taken .
23 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
24 It may well be that some of them regret having made the decision .
25 I do n't have any view erm er on that , if I understand your question , because I think it realistic to assume that post two thousand and six one of the options that we could be reasonably expected to consider , together with the District Council , is the possibility of a further , shall we say , how addition to , a a further phase er onto the new settlement , erm so that the new settlement erm would evolve , if that was the chosen option , and as it evolved it may well be that more of Mr David Curtis 's higher level facilities er would be added .
26 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 .
27 In these latter experiments , however , a different strain of yeast was used from that employed by Jones and Jenkins , and it may well be that this is another example of one strain of an organism being more sensitive to particular homoeopathic remedies than others .
28 It may well be that this building was the Quartermasters Stores originally .
29 It may well be that this development makes matters worse .
30 It may well be that this is important in itself .
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