Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We do it when we decide that the sibling rule — that a child can attend the same school as a brother or sister — does not apply ( the assumption here must surely be that siblings can belong to different species ) .
2 It may or may not be that decisions and the like are in fact standard effects .
3 It may also be that women have a greater need of seeing some of the qualities of the future .
4 It may also be that policies and practices have changed since the survey was carried out , for example because of a change in political control .
5 I think what those statistics indicate is that more people are being notified to the Home Office and that may well be that doctors are more aware of the need to notify .
6 With NCA 's expertise on the type , it may well be that operators around the world may have finally found a real replacement for the DC-3 !
7 It may well be that factors other than orthofunction are producing these improvements ; factors such as better resourcing , a purposeful environment , the amount of time spent in active learning each day , or the one-to-one relationship with conductors , may be equally or more important than the specific application of the technique of orthofunction itself .
8 It may well be that children younger than nine years have difficulty picking up information about intentions from pictures .
9 They came to the conclusion that trusts offered a significant advantage only in their Republican days ; in that period it may well be that peregrines and other disadvantaged classes made good use of them .
10 A relativist will deny that there is a unique category , ‘ science ’ , that is intrinsically superior to other forms of knowledge , although it may well be that individuals or communities place a high value on what is usually referred to as science .
11 It may well be that arguments could be made that this sense of unreasonableness should be the only mechanism for controlling discretion .
12 It may well be that events can be causes in virtue of satisfying criteria about their being required or alternatively required for effects which are different from the mentioned two .
13 The high correlation between accident estimate and risk rating observed , r(46)=0.75 , p<0.01 , may reflect the objective correlation that should exist between these measures or it may simply be that subjects were not completely successful in dissociating the two scales .
14 The first may simply be that pupils have not mastered the skills necessary to pursue effective project work .
15 Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants .
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