Example sentences of "[adv] it may [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps it may regretfully be time to demolish our bothies — their unique charm and tradition destroyed by the greedy — another casualty like that on the consciences of the cairnbuilding , memorial erecting , road bulldozing and ‘ 100 best walks ’ brigade . |
| 2 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 3 | So it may well be that indirectly , whether consciously or unconsciously Trivers ' own thinking was influenced by Freudian findings erm , I do n't know , I 'm pursuing that possibility . |
| 4 | So it may just be a seasonal thing . |
| 5 | I mean , the one is just , so it may not be any great compliment to say that the cow has an equal chance erm but , but I , I actually do n't know the answer to that one , whether thought that |
| 6 | So it may not be a problem with room bookings it 's probably a problem with Jo . |
| 7 | I think we have to say that er I would imagine that plans are well advanced for the nineteen ninety/ninety one/ninety two settlement , er so it may not be immediately that er we will get the benefit of what we said to him . |
| 8 | A lot of them send stuff that might be the greatest thing they 've ever produced , but looked at objectively it may not be up to much . |
| 9 | Thus it may well be that the numerous nobles of Aquitaine who went on pilgrimage in the summer of 1179 did so as a penance imposed by the church . |
| 10 | Thus it may well be that French Canadian is derived historically by the addition of an adjectival sufffix to the geographical term French Canada , but it is clear that in the mind of most users the adjective is used to take a subset out of the larger class of things or people Canadian , as shown , for instance , by the general refusal in Canada to use the historically natural opposite term English Canadian otherwise than for those descended from inhabitants of Great Britain and in particular England ( see Orkin , 1971 ) . |
| 11 | Thus it may not be only the antibiotics which are associated with long-term disadvantages but the great majority of the synthetic pharmaceutical drugs upon which modern medicine relies . |
| 12 | Moreover it may sometimes be the case that the acoustic input is simply insufficient to discriminate between hypotheses . |
| 13 | There is clearly some element of doubling-up of protection , but equally in the interests of a deal being completed quickly it may not be desirable to encourage the seller to produce vast amounts of disclosure against very detailed warranties . |
| 14 | In this case if our 50-year-old reduced his weight by a stone or so and maintained it indefinitely it may well be enough to control the diabetes . |
| 15 | Later it may possibly be used in ordinary conversation , but again quiet circumstances avoid interference from the background noise . |
| 16 | Now it may well be that privileged social groups tend to be advantaged in all three areas , while subordinate groups normally enjoy poor life-chances , low status and little political influence . |
| 17 | Now it may well be that er that may well be the the position in the south west in in respect of of of that particular criteria , but we would need to see , er how a location in that area , met the other eleven criteria . |
| 18 | Now it may well be that er the Federation of Hambleton disagree about what the importance of of that landscape assessment is precisely . |
| 19 | Now it may well be that the whole balance of things is that we 're generally okay for the moment but it seems to me that as time goes on and there 's a need to review plans and there 's a need to make further provision that it would be very very difficult indeed against a blanket policy as opposed to individual justifications around ind er individual settlements . |
| 20 | Now it may well be that that is actually looking into a slightly longer term . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 23 | Today it may not be the right way forward because it 's probably much cheaper to buy a hotel , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Yeah well it may well be |
| 25 | Well it may not be their story but that 's the fact . |
| 26 | Well it may not be providing we can actually pull out some still |
| 27 | but , yeah well it may not be , you know |
| 28 | And if it 's not referenced here it may not be referenced anywhere else . |
| 29 | Nowadays it may well be world history , deeply simplified . |
| 30 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |