Example sentences of "it could [adv] be that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could even be that we are moving into a hitherto unknown dimension with the next steps in IT . |
| 2 | It could even be that you need to change job altogether . |
| 3 | Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or |
| 4 | It could just be that you are the indirect cause of the complaint and the action you take has a consequential impact on the customer . |
| 5 | It could just be that you 're the person in your family who knows what 's on all those video tapes that nobody 's labelled up . |
| 6 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 7 | It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist . |
| 8 | If there were any genuine cultural universals it could well be that they are universal because they are " natural " , i.e. a part of our genetic endowment . |
| 9 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 10 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 11 | It could well be that you have agoraphobia or some kind of depression . |
| 12 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 13 | If indeed this was how he happened upon verre anglais , it could well be that it was in England , not Spain , that Dom Pérignon rediscovered the cork . |
| 14 | It could well be that it will take more than the measures that the Government have introduced to strip the glamour from smoking , notwithstanding the 115,000 smoking-related deaths per year in Britain alone . |
| 15 | Ordinary domestic horses always suffered greatly in tropical Africa , and it could simply be that they attract more insects than zebras . |
| 16 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |