Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [adv] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That may just be Cos you 've got good circulation , in fact , down here . |
| 3 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 4 | Well that should n't be when it 's his cheque should it . |
| 5 | This may simply be because subjects assumed that the current study was essentially about risk and expected to encounter some particularly dangerous situations . |
| 6 | This may also be because those subjects appear to offer fewer possible problems with regard to reconciling our behaviour , or everyday life , our origins perhaps , with other beliefs . |
| 7 | This may either be because of ‘ backsliding ’ — a reversion to a previous state of interlanguage — or it may be that the increased transferability of knowledge , which must to some degree involve analysis , calls for the recurrent dismantling and reassembling of linguistic forms which the learner may have internalized as complete formulaic units . |
| 8 | The reason for this may well be that the hospital consultant is reluctant to let go medical responsibility for former patients and thrust them on to a local GP , but he is not normally easily available when off duty or working in a clinic many miles away . |
| 9 | It is true that removal of radiocaesium by clinoptilolite seems to be less effective than by bentonite or a hexacyanoferrate II but this may well be because a zeolitised tuff has been used ( 40–60 per cent zeolite content ) , or that the clinoptilolite used is potassium rich . |
| 10 | This may well be because our western-type chairs have been introduced into their culture . |
| 11 | As suggested , this may often be because the borrower anticipated refusal , so does not even apply . |
| 12 | This must obviously be because of MOD publicity restrictions . |
| 13 | If you have entered many competitions and never won a thing , this might not be because your work is poor . |
| 14 | This could also be because women with unexplained lower abdominal pain are often referred in the first instance to gynaecologists , who may not consider an intestinal cause until they have removed the pelvic organs . |
| 15 | This could not be as our drug supplies were not coming through so well . |
| 16 | Clearly the abundances of these materials at the surface exceeds those of the Moon as a whole and this could either be because of upward differentiation or because such materials were added late in the formation of the Moon . |
| 17 | He assumed that this could only be because he was one of the possibles . |
| 18 | This could perhaps be that the new doctor 's surgery is nearer , or easier for her to get to , has less steps to climb to the front door , or that she has a neighbour on his list who would accompany her to the surgery . |
| 19 | Of course , a rule permitting the directors to defend the company from a poorly-managed predator would be perfectly coherent ( and might be desirable ) , but this would not be because the entity has an intrinsic significance that merits protection , but rather because the rule would serve the rational purpose of protecting the interests of groups other than the shareholders who would be adversely affected by a change in control . |
| 20 | They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit : he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze ; he will discard it when , and only when , he wills to do so , and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone . |
| 21 | It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed . |
| 22 | And all of this can only be because you are very wicked indeed . |
| 23 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |
| 24 | Finally , if a comparison is possible at all , this can only be because ultimately we have non-comparative knowledge of the two things compared . |
| 25 | " This can only be because operators think that levels of toxic waste imports will go on increasing " . |
| 26 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 27 | These will normally be as follows : ( 1 ) To your client , to acknowledge his instructions . |
| 28 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 29 | The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first . |
| 30 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |