Example sentences of "maybe it [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kilts and togas and hearth rugs were flicked up to reveal Y-fronts and boxer shorts in red , white and blue stripes ; green and yellow spots ; black and white snatches of music , ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and ‘ Maybe it 's because I 'm a Londoner ’ ; and was n't that young Burt the body-builder with his packed lunch in a posing-pouch ? |
| 2 | Maybe it 's because my two Toy Poodles were horribly upset one cold day . |
| 3 | Maybe it 's because she has the most substantial female role in any of Stone 's films to date — or maybe it 's because her character suffered the saddest fate in the backsweep of Jim Morrison 's downfall . |
| 4 | Maybe it 's because she has the most substantial female role in any of Stone 's films to date — or maybe it 's because her character suffered the saddest fate in the backsweep of Jim Morrison 's downfall . |
| 5 | Arsenal , for example , sing ‘ Maybe it 's Because I 'm a Londoner , and Leeds United chant ‘ York-shire ’ , with both sets of supporters mimicking the other 's accents . |
| 6 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 7 | Maybe it 's because they sound like a goat rammed down a foghorn . |
| 8 | If Lotus has shown a total lack of imagination in developing 1-2-3 for Windows , maybe it 's because all its innovative effort has been poured into Improv . |
| 9 | But maybe it 's because I 'm Irish , and there 's always been a lot of sadness in Irish poetry . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe it 's because he 's a man . ’ |
| 11 | Or maybe it 's because golf is n't the be-all and end-all to him . |
| 12 | Maybe it 's because we have a major problem with superfluous hair . |
| 13 | Maybe it 's because their queues are so much more miserable that the waiting seems so long |
| 14 | I do n't think it 's a er maybe it 's because the background , I think , I 'm just trying to make up my mind why it loses a bit of interest , and I think what happens is , that the background being , having all this foliage which is lots of light pouring on er , all this sort of twiggery round here is er picking up lots of highlights and that tends to detract from the fairly plain shapes and smooth surfaces of the gourds . |
| 15 | And yet does n't Shetland does n't seem so difficult to un maybe it 's because we 're Orcadian but Shetland does n't seem to be so difficult to understand for somebody outside than Orcadian is I wonder why ? |
| 16 | Well maybe , maybe it 's because the person that 's been dealing with is not sufficiently au fait with Peterborough |
| 17 | I , I just do n't know what he 's , he 's , he 's , he 's , he 's seeing his future as being and erm maybe cos we have n't got , maybe erm it 's because of the generation gap , maybe it 's because of communication problems either between me and him or the young and old or whatever but , you know , he just does n't seem to have anything to volunteer er other than ah well I 'll try and get a job or ah well I 'll try and get some more qualifications or whatever . |
| 18 | Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's |
| 19 | Er and it 's one of these things where thinking about y your average heterosexual bloke they may respond angrily but there 's a suspicion that maybe it 's because they 're feeling rather threatened underneath sort of thing . |
| 20 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 21 | Maybe it is because they do n't want to fulfil their financial commitments . |
| 22 | Or maybe it was that the defiance had turned . |
| 23 | Maybe it was that that precarious balance in her nature — that he loved . |
| 24 | Maybe it was because I 'd seen Ronnie Lane of The Faces — who was my hero at that age — wearing a pair on TV . |
| 25 | Maybe it was because of the snow or maybe he was getting fed up with me . |
| 26 | Maybe it was because he was close to God that the others respected him . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’ |
| 28 | Maybe it was because boxing is an enclosed network , you work in teams as amateurs . |
| 29 | Maybe it was because they thought it was dangerous to stand out in any way from the crowd , in case fate was tempted to drop a crate on their heads . |
| 30 | Maybe it was because he had gone to a private high school . |