Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler . |
| 2 | It may thus be that a client is a corporate finance client for some activities but not for others . |
| 3 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 4 | Since the social class assessment is based on husband 's occupation , it may also be that the ‘ deviants ’ are more ‘ working class ’ or ‘ middle class ’ on several important dimensions than their class-categorization itself indicates . |
| 5 | It may also be that the aims and intentions of Penda and his allies were mixed . |
| 6 | It may also be that the limited review which the theory allows is unacceptable on policy grounds . |
| 7 | It may also be that the agent would be asked to advise on the cost , and , as with civil legislation , costs in parliamentary matters can in appropriate cases be taxed under the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act , 1847 , and the 1849 Act on similar lines for the House of Lords , the only difference in Scotland being that taxation is done by the Auditor of the Court of Session . |
| 8 | It may also be that the early returns from the voyages proved small , and that it was felt that investment in them did not provide an adequate reward for those involved . |
| 9 | The result of such practice may often be that the actual operative working on site receives substantially less than an economic rate for individual tasks , with resultant bad feeling and possibly bad workmanship . |
| 10 | It may even be that the indiscriminacy of some of the air operations in the Second World War will come to be seen as something of a historical aberration , and a mere temporary consequence of the undeveloped state of the arts of target acquisition and guidance . |
| 11 | It may even be that the coupon helped to limit the size of the Unionist victory and to prolong the life of the Liberal Party . |
| 12 | It may even be that the Eadwulf who challenged the accession of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in 704 , and whose son was with Wilfrid at Ripon at the time ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 59 ) ( see below , p. 146 ) , was of royal Deiran extraction . |
| 13 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 14 | Hopefully the new home which you are now considering as a prospective purchase will be suitable for your needs in every way , but it may well be that a need for some renovation or refurbishment is indicated from the surveyor 's report or that you will wish to make improvements or alterations of your own . |
| 15 | It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle . |
| 16 | It may well be that a particular piece of research needs to focus on selected people for information , and the information gained from them will be fitted together into a coherent and consistent pattern with virtually no percentages and significance tests at all . |
| 17 | Indeed it may well be that a claim for contribution in respect of exemplary damages is not within section 1(1) on the facts of this case , so that one never gets to section 2 in relation to such a claim . |
| 18 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 19 | It may well pass an act against it soon , it may well be that a lot of people from over there will get elected and you 'll get your bill , but then again it may not . |
| 20 | So , despite his presentation of sceptical arguments against knowledge of the nature of things , Gassendi does , nevertheless , hint that ‘ it may well be that the basis for knowledge does exist ’ ; even though this will be ‘ a knowledge of experience and , I may say , of appearances ’ . |
| 21 | Corn was shipped along the Stroudwater canal to Oil Mill , although it may well be that the last half mile or so of the Painswick Stream was once navigable . |
| 22 | It may well be that the smaller powers benefit first from the new defensive technologies . |
| 23 | It may well be that the main cross-talk between cells involves specifying position . |
| 24 | It may well be that the rate will slip further with so many children failing to receive regular schooling . |
| 25 | It may well be that the ‘ ideal-type ’ , far from being ideally typical , actually represents very abnormal and atypical political conditions . |
| 26 | UNDER the improbable aegis of Ronald Reagan , who has never found occasion to say much good or bad about science during his long public career , it may well be that the American scientific community is headed for an economic boom . |
| 27 | It was some time after the construction of the capital 's tramway system , and it may well be that the true origins of the tale lay in a superstitious dread of this foreign technology . |
| 28 | It may well be that the sons of barons and knights jostled with Sceva and Ollo in the markets of the twelfth century ; and it is likely enough that there were more rich men 's sons than poor men 's sons wearing the alderman 's robes . |
| 29 | It may well be that the costs of change were underestimated or , indeed , left out of account altogether . |
| 30 | In the future , it may well be that the western interventionist-imperialists will be on the liberal-left , not the laissez-faire right . |