Example sentences of "that this [noun] may [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that this increase may have been , on the one hand , indicative of a greater frequency of homosexual activity ‘ in public ’ and , hence , of a degree of ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 2 | Finally , while Chomsky assumed that without a priori knowledge , a distributional analysis of a naturally occurring language sample would inevitably fail to identify correspondences between words and their respective lexical roles , more recent studies have suggested that this view may have been unduly pessimistic ( Maratsos 1983 ) . |
| 3 | The possibility that this accident may have been caused by vandals . |
| 4 | The rationale behind the exposure draft is that the auditors may be improperly pressurised into adopting the opinion the outside firm has given , and that this opinion may have been given with inadequate knowledge of the circumstances . |
| 5 | The indications are that this site may have been exploited for at least a year . |
| 6 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |