Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [adv] [be] true that " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 2 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |
| 3 | It may also be true that ‘ ease of use ’ can influence the quality of work done and the effectiveness of a GIS as a decision support system . |
| 4 | That is , it will be true , if there is no other causal circumstance for b on hand , and no alternative for a , that If B & C , even if X , still A. To speak informally , in terms of the example , the hot coffee together with other things guaranteed dissolved sugar , but it may also be true that the dissolved sugar , together with ( different ) other things , guaranteed the hot coffee . |
| 5 | It may also be true that some professional groups have had their independence and autonomy reduced . |
| 6 | It may also be true that social and market changes may " filter down " from the higher social classes ( such as the AB 's in the UK ) who are often first to perceive the need or desirability for a particular change . |
| 7 | It may well be true that there is little evidence of a widespread parochial anti-clericalism in the early sixteenth century , if by that we mean an endemic lay hostility towards the local priesthood . |
| 8 | It may well be true that Black people are inspired by the memory of their courage under slavery . |
| 9 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |
| 10 | It may nevertheless be true that such a country may have been able to establish links with either party . |
| 11 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 12 | It may perhaps be true that 79 per cent of trees cut down are cleared by people needing to plant food or gather fuel , and that , if there were fewer people , there would be less need . |