Example sentences of "may be [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that greater understanding of homosexuals is called for and that all measures aimed at countering misunderstanding should be welcomed . |
| 2 | It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation . |
| 3 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 4 | The outcome of such competition may be that one firm emerges as the ‘ winner ’ , able to dominate the market and earn monopoly rents ( Gilbert and Newbury , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | It may be that one strand of his personality has not yet matured , and even if it never does , that does not mean that he does not love you . |
| 6 | It may be that one cell which habitually fed by flowing round other particles , took some bacteria and blue-greens within it and these , instead of being digested , survived to collaborate in a communal life of hitherto unparalleled intimacy . |
| 7 | There are slight stylistic differences in the execution of the relief work , and it may be that one cup is an exotic , a Minoan import , and the other was made by a Mycenean craftsman to make a pair ; on balance , I think it more likely that both are Minoan ( Figure 31 ) . |
| 8 | It may be that one partner is so involved with their own painful feelings during the experiences of midlife , that there is no room for the other 's needs . |
| 9 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 10 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 11 | A further complication may be that any sideslipping to correct for drift may cause the ASI to under-read so that the speed may have to be judged . |
| 12 | For instance , it may be that some craft workers , particularly those working very close to the temple , were operating under temple jurisdiction and supervision , whilst others were free to work independently . |
| 13 | Hence in such cases we can not expect the twin goals to be met ; in fact it may be that some compromise position has to be reached . |
| 14 | It may be that these West Saxon kings were obliged to join the Mercian ruler on occasion at least in his military campaigns , as indeed earlier kings had assisted Penda and Wulfhere . |
| 15 | This situation is common in many academic areas , as I have discovered talking to colleagues , and it may be that this state of inflation and over-production is economically unavoidable , that many inferior books have to be published in order to let the good ones appear . |
| 16 | As offending during the currency of a community order will not necessarily be a ground under Criminal Justice Act 1991 for re-sentencing an offender who is subject to a community order , and failure to respond to a community order must be disregarded when considering whether an offence is sufficiently serious to justify a custodial sentence ( s.29(1) ) , it may be that this decision will become particularly important under the new legislation . |
| 17 | It may be that this goddess was worshipped at the peak sanctuaries , where it is known that pyres were lit ; the later Artemis cult also involved mountain-top bonfires . |
| 18 | Mr Lambert said : ‘ It may be that this man was hitch-hiking or waiting for a lift . ’ |
| 19 | It may be that this analysis could show universities those regions where particular methodologies , previously untried , may yield useful new information . |
| 20 | Amis also likes to write , as Larkin liked to write , about the fear of death , and it may be that this fear can be detected in the failure to notice here that both sorts of people are subject to it , as to other unavoidable misfortunes , and that both sorts die . |
| 21 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 22 | It may be that this prophecy lies behind the account of the expulsion from the Temple of those who bought and sold . |
| 23 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |
| 24 | Well we do n't have a definite answer erm Gill but we think it may have experienced a shock of some sort during that season and of course when this happens to fruit trees they can go into bi-annual cropping and then they come back again , it may be that this horse chestnut 's experienced something very similar . |
| 25 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 26 | But LFF evidence tends to corroborate suggestions that this may be because such film-making is just not very good at the moment . |
| 27 | This may be because more land was brought into agricultural use as a result of remembrement ( see p. 46 ) and re-use of the communal high pastures — the estives — in the mountain areas . |
| 28 | The transient nature of the binding may be because this sequence is recognized on account of its structure without additional hydrogen bonding contacts . |