Example sentences of "may be that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It may be that the two books were originally one manuscript . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It may be that the only times the parents show joint concern is when the child misbehaves and so the child continues to be difficult as it keeps the family together . |
| 5 | If there is another rights issue , a possible result may be that the major shareholders will decide to take out the minority interest . |
| 6 | It may be that the weathered materials from which it is built are particularly attractive and there is something about the building that is pleasing to the eye — soft red brick or golden stone , patterned brickwork or decorative ironwork . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 9 | It may be that the cited deviations from price flexibility are empirically unimportant ; that is , they do not significantly affect the ‘ average ’ behaviour of prices . |
| 10 | As the negative findings were obtained in studies of the effects of circumscribed missile wounds of the brain it may be that the positive findings are related to diffuse cerebral damage encroaching more frequently on the language areas of the brain . |
| 11 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 12 | It may be that the same forces impelled the Slavs which affected the Asiatic peoples who moved into Europe from the east during the period of folk migrations which accompanied and contributed to the fall of the Roman empire . |
| 13 | As the dynamic environment unfolds and the planning process responds to change , it may be that the original goals are fundamentally altered . |
| 14 | One reason to think it may is that the new agreements have turned national tariff-cutting programmes into international commitments . |