Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most obvious thing in mine may be that I like to work with numbers , but if I 've an urge to be an innovator too , I probably wo n't make a successful auditor . |
| 2 | It may be that I ca n't help , but … ’ |
| 3 | All the events recorded in this book took place more than forty years ago and memories are apt to play tricks on us , so it may be that I have made a few mistakes . |
| 4 | It may be that I wo n't , but I like to keep that option . ’ |
| 5 | It may be that I find a situation hard to manage because I am apparently unable to prevent myself from reacting with paralysing anger when spoken to in this way . |
| 6 | It may be that I 'm asking too much of Bill Forsyth . |
| 7 | ‘ But they have long since vanished from Ireland , Fergus , and it may be that I will be the last Queen to have seen them and heard them . |
| 8 | ‘ It may be that I have seen this place . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if you report all to me it may be that I shall give you money . |
| 10 | I can hardly forebear , I 'm sorry for , if it 's er , a bad pun , but er , I can hardly forbear to say that it may be that I , that diocese can do with what one might describe as a dash of the Robin Hood 's , which I think Alan may er , bring to it . |
| 11 | I do n't know it may be that I 'll be the only member er that talks in terms of a specific Euro seat er in any detail but it does matter in our area and we have a long history of arguing that case . |
| 12 | It might be that I ca n't be objective about my own songs , ’ he told City Limits . |
| 13 | It might be that there really is nothing else of importance , or it might be that I just do n't want to make the whole of me available . |
| 14 | ‘ It could be that I have had some new shafts put in my clubs ’ , Woosnam pondered , ‘ and they are too stiff . |
| 15 | It could be that I will wait until the summer and weigh things up . ’ |
| 16 | I wondered how it could be that I was going to marry Syl . |
| 17 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |