Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [be] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason to think it may is that the new agreements have turned national tariff-cutting programmes into international commitments . |
| 2 | No logical contradiction is involved in the assertion , ‘ The brick fell upwards when released ’ , although it may be that no such statement is ever supported by observation . |
| 3 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 4 | ‘ If the lenders wo n't contribute voluntarily to money advice funding , it may be that a compulsory levy on lenders , to augment funding by central and local government and others , is now the answer . |
| 5 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
| 6 | It may be that a new course is still in the planning stages , or that what you want is offered at another local centre . |
| 7 | It may be that the effect of diagnosis is real and that duodenal ulcer is more persistent than gastric ulcer , or it may be that a higher proportion of gastric ulcer patients have been operated upon in the time between the two periods of registrations of drug use . |
| 8 | If you have a particular task in mind it may be that a 2.4 volt drill will perform quite adequately , although as a general rule the lower voltage drills are best suited to small diameter pilot drilling and countersinking . |
| 9 | It may be that a separate recogniser could be constructed that would concentrate on these sort of features , i.e. the shape of a word found from its ascending and descending characters . |
| 10 | This may have been the situation at the time of Domesday Book and it may be that a nucleated village was not established until late Saxon times or the twelfth century . |
| 11 | It may be that a further Hurricane was also lost , some sources recording R.A.F. fighter losses for this day as five Hurricanes and three pilots . |
| 12 | It may be that a federated structure is either the best long-term , or the best short-term , structure . |
| 13 | Liam Hudson suggests that ‘ it may be that a single system of values embraces the individual 's perceptions of academic institutions ; his perception of himself and his demonstrable behaviour ’ , and goes on to say that , |
| 14 | It may be that a third party would be prepared to accept the commitments for a limited purpose without becoming a party to the treaty . |
| 15 | 1993 is a year to really find the right person , so it may be that an unsatisfactory relationship has to go in order for the appropriate one to come in . |
| 16 | Both these cases involved applications for orders to the Italian courts ; it may be that an English court would resist a contractual fetter on the power to grant injunctions under section 37 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 17 | But it may be that an unusual boost at A level could place students in situations where they find themselves uncomfortably out-performanced by their peers . |
| 18 | It may be that the sin-offering deals with infringements of God 's laws , whereas the guilt-offering , since it raises the question of compensation , deals with situations where human injury is involved . |
| 19 | It may be that the global warming and atmospheric circulation adjustments will happen in a series of abrupt steps or jumps , the magnitude and timing of which are as yet uncertain . |
| 20 | It may be that the decisive factor in H's favour was the fact that H was effectively on " garden leave " . |
| 21 | for them it may be that the sixteen double O four has a more expensive housing arrangement anyway , or under that purpose |
| 22 | It may be that the theory-practice issue in professional education has become over-polarized . |
| 23 | It may be that the first is a purse which is never empty , and the second a pot which provides a wholesome meal whenever you demand one in the right way . |
| 24 | It may be that the round tombs are a reference back to a very ancient and primitive type of house , long-since abandoned except for tomb architecture , or they may be an exotic , a design imported from a foreign land where both tombs and houses were round . |
| 25 | Perhaps some positive aspects are contained within fat 's designation as taboo ; for instance , some people find fat attractive because it is forbidden and marginal : ‘ It may be that the forbidden is exciting because it is forbidden . |
| 26 | It may be that the major mischief at which the Act was directed was the mischief which has become endemic of persons using one computer to hack into another computer . |
| 27 | It may be that the two books were originally one manuscript . |
| 28 | Even in these days of permissiveness , it may be that the one party has not had , or has been denied , the opportunity of discovering the anatomical characteristics of the other . |
| 29 | If religion is less significant than it used to be in modern societies , it may be that the emotional issues are resolved too , or that they have found other modes of expression , in the arts and entertainments , and in political movements . |
| 30 | It may be that the untapped pool of non-practising nurses are in the main housewives and mothers , or frustrated office workers . |