Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the plus side of that may be that you are good at working alone without constant supervision . |
| 2 | Well again that may be that erm the evidence will be such that I think that I ought to erm give the decision on it . |
| 3 | I admit that I prefer the longer film , but that may be because I saw it first . |
| 4 | It did n't make that much difference — but that may be because my hair is untreated . ’ |
| 5 | They do n't have the time or the resources , and that may be because they do n't have enough people at partner level to cope with the organisation that training involves . ’ |
| 6 | That may be because people have got so used to killings : after the murder of Lalith Athulathmudali , one of Sri Lanka 's two main opposition leaders , on April 23rd , the assassination of the president who some suspected of involvement in his rival 's killing was no great surprise . |
| 7 | That may be because the guerrillas see a political prize ahead |
| 8 | It 's quite hard work for some of us to take this seriously , but that may be because we are not very good at loving ourselves or trusting life . |
| 9 | Erm i if I 'm honest I think I found Holly 's easier to understand on a first reading but that may be because I think perhaps read it . |
| 10 | W three , no I , I think that , that , that must be cos they 've got the same G here |
| 11 | No that must be because it 's |
| 12 | I do n't know quite why that should be except that in the Fifties all my peers were fascinated by the industrialised , consumer society of which the USA was the supreme example . |
| 13 | Why that should be when we know change is inevitable is something I shall have to ask my daughter . |
| 14 | I agree with what has been put on the agenda of our last meeting and that should be and that should be and that is fate , you can not alter that unless you do something about it . |
| 15 | I agree with what has been put on the agenda of our last meeting and that should be and that should be and that is fate , you can not alter that unless you do something about it . |
| 16 | Sometimes , this may be whether to save the life of the child or the mother . |
| 17 | The result of this may be that the foods they do choose to eat are very limited . |
| 18 | One reason for this may be that the civil service 's centralized administrative structure , based on line departments , makes the task of developing an integrated strategy in the English regions exceptionally difficult to achieve . |
| 19 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 20 | A reason for this may be that R2 does not contain separate domains as lactoferrin but instead has a compact helix bundle structure . |
| 21 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 22 | The reasons for doing this may be that the animal maximises its chances of mating with somebody with whom it can have offspring while at the same time minimising the ill-effects of inbreeding . |
| 23 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 24 | This may be when settlement patterns began to stabilise . |
| 25 | By the end of it all the mind-body problem will loom large — but this may be because we are now a little closer to it . |
| 26 | This may be because the ‘ classic ’ factories of the twentieth century tend to be low-rise , usually single-storey structures , built to very broad plans from cheap and impermanent materials . |
| 27 | But LFF evidence tends to corroborate suggestions that this may be because such film-making is just not very good at the moment . |
| 28 | This may be because nobody under 18 can own unit trusts in their own names . |
| 29 | This may be because nobody under 18 can own unit trusts in their own names . |
| 30 | This may be because nobody under 18 can own unit trusts in their own names . |