Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't think it 'll be once they put the money |
| 2 | It may be that they left the gate open when they went , and Joe just trotted out . ’ |
| 3 | My reading of these figures would be that they reflect a surging interest and are not quite as unpopular as you would indicate . |
| 4 | In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but … |
| 5 | It might be that they lead the opinions of a group of three people , ten people or thirty , but those opinion-makers are the key . |
| 6 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 7 | Assuming that all the materials you have are equally suitable for your students , the main distinguishing feature of the video materials is likely to be that they provide the most realistic examples of the language in use . |
| 8 | Whilst it is conceivable that some of these jobs will be craft based and thus provide an outlet for some initiative and self activism , the significant reality will be that they have no economic power and no industrial muscle . |
| 9 | When archaic figures of this type first became known they were called ‘ Apollo ’ , and it may be that they have an early association with his worship , but certainly not all can represent him and the non-committal ‘ kouros ’ is preferable . |
| 10 | If a secretarial assistant does not wish to accept the invitation with its terms , we would not press the matter but the policy should be that we appoint no more off-the-payroll secretarial assistants and that the whole arrangement ends by April 1993 . |
| 11 | But may be that we had a description , want to get the description out to as many people as possible , to see if anybody recognizes the person described , er then we 'd come to you there , give you the description of the |
| 12 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 13 | In a letter to his congregation he said : ‘ It may be that we have no influence on those who plan and carry out murders in both parts of our community , but we can all help create a climate of opinion where they will be increasingly isolated and disowned . ’ |
| 14 | The problem will be that we have no great tacklers in the midfield without Batts . |
| 15 | If I had any criticism of our organisation it would be that we have a tendency to hide our light under a bushel . |
| 16 | The Marxist ethical imperative seems to be that whatever advances the cause of the proletariat or the advent of communism is ‘ ideologically correct ’ . |
| 17 | With stress on ‘ comes ’ , could it be that she gets a lift back ? |
| 18 | It may be that she commissioned the piece under the influence of the Norman history written for her brother Duke Richard II by Dudo of St Quentin , while some have thought it political propaganda intended to influence events after Cnut 's death . |
| 19 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
| 20 | So severe does Naylor believe this question of interdependency to be that he devotes the whole of his 1986 study to an attempt to develop an alternative to the portfolio matrix . |
| 21 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 22 | The result will often be that he wins the race . |
| 23 | Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east . |
| 24 | His problem seemed to be that he believed a Government could do exactly as it liked without taking public opinion into account . |
| 25 | An appropriate valedictory comment on W. C. T. might be that he underwent a dramatic rags-to-riches transformation , conveniently abandoning the Dissenting zeal of his ancestors in the process . |
| 26 | Could it be that someone had an interest in keeping it alive ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Now you may as a manager think well you do n't have to do it all yourself , you can use senior people within your section who have the knowledge or you can use training officers or you can use people like ourselves at the training centre or the C B T or the I Vs or it could be that you bring the marketing department to help you out . |
| 29 | It may be that you have a form of postnatal depression that needs treatment . |
| 30 | It ca n't be that you have no principles . |