Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it may have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows from the First Premise introduced at the beginning of this chapter , that it must be an article of belief in the Created God that this first pre-life period in the story of the universe made no contribution to the creation of the God which was to be born , as was mankind , out of the life to come , except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life . |
| 2 | The origin of that primitive ‘ desire ’ is in all probability the same as the unknown origin of life , which in this book is relegated to that first pre-life period which made no contribution to the Created God except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life . |
| 3 | Further , it seems likely that although it may have been the case in the earlier nineteenth century that the proportion of the English population living in the higher-waged North increased both as a result of a higher natural rate of increase and from in-migration , in 1801 53 per cent of the population still lived south of the Severn/Wash line , while north of it counties like Herefordshire and Worcestershire were not high-waged . |
| 4 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 5 | Even the RP ‘ broad ’ [ a ] ( as in path , dance ) seems to have acquired its high evaluation only recently : Mugglestone ( 1989 ) cites evidence from the nineteenth century to the effect that it was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators : it looks as though it may have been ‘ borrowed ’ from a low-status dialect ( such as ‘ Cockney ’ ) . |
| 6 | At times it seems as though it may have been evolved to do just that . ’ |