Example sentences of "could [pron] be that the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ? |
2 | Could it be that the awareness of this factor has contributed , at least in part , to the observed decrease in human toxoplasma infection , at least in some geographical areas ? |
3 | Could it be that the Universe 's first white holes have yet to form ? |
4 | Or could it be that the boy had taken his spying into the Essoldo Cinema ? |
5 | Could it be that the cytoplasm completely controls gene action ? |
6 | Could it be that the success of Microsoft is due partly to the fact that Bill Gates is an avid reader of your newspaper , therefore winning the ‘ severe contest between intelligence , which presses forward , and an unworthy , timid ignorance obstructing our progress ’ ? |
7 | Could it be that the statistics in seventeen hundred were wrong ? |
8 | Could it be that the decision was taken in a temporary depression from drugs ? |
9 | Could it be that the UK products are either deficient in non-price factors or alternatively too expensive relative to goods being produced elsewhere ? |
10 | Could it be that the sponsor of the competition — Lloyds Bank — expects to revolutionise its money sorting system ? |
11 | Could it be that the friend is actually someone whom you recognize from a previous life , and that is why you immediately feel that you have a mutual link ? |
12 | Could it be that the calories supplied by a diet high in natural fibre were being digested and utilized in a different way by the human body ? |
13 | How could it be that the cells that will form the gut and the bones and muscles are on the outside of the early embryo , yet they will form structures that are clearly on the inside of the animal ? |
14 | Or could it be that the front-runner in the fusion race does not look very promising as the basis of a reactor ? |
15 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
16 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parley an admission of poor husbandry into a public campaign for the primate centres ? |
17 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
18 | Could it be that the people of this country are storing up champagne to celebrate the wondrous event of the Tories ' being smashed at the next election ? |
19 | Could it be that the alien does not want to steal the spaceship , but wants the key for some other purpose ? |
20 | Could it be that the fusion community is trying to solve this problem early on ? |