Example sentences of "may [adv] be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It may thus be possible that binding of pou[c] to this motif is mostly directed by the POU HD and perhaps further stabilized by the POU S . |
| 3 | It may already be evident that the stylistics of embellishment has much in common with the stylistics of self-reference , as both can involve the idea of deviation from some kind of standard . |
| 4 | It may nevertheless be true that such a country may have been able to establish links with either party . |
| 5 | I mean , it may just be possible that Diblo Dibala actually is the best guitarist on Earth |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | It may also be relevant that the terrorist bombing campaign appeared , for the first time for some years , to be targeting shopping areas directly , as well as widening the net outside London . |
| 8 | ( It may also be relevant that Corinth , as recent finds show , used lead for public inscriptions at early dates : Arch . |
| 9 | This evidence for weighing gold shows how the coin was not being used as currency , and it may also be significant that many of the balances date to the period when the debasement of the gold coin was at its most serious . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may also be true that some professional groups have had their independence and autonomy reduced . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may also be important that the two most impersonal writers of these three , Walter Hilton and the Cloud-author , were both almost certainly professional religious and thus already established in a tradition of self-effacement . |
| 17 | Your constituent may also be aware that the Department carried out a review into arrangements for the reporting and recording of archaeological finds and issued a consultation paper in 1988 . |
| 18 | Members may also be aware that won the small town category in the in bloom competition , which resulted in entry to the National Britain in Bloom awards . |
| 19 | In fact , we may both be surprised that Peirce held that the scientific inquirer distanced himself from all scientific results , and suspect that Quine would grant that this attitude is appropriate for a range of them . |
| 20 | We may often be sure that we can judge by the quality of the drawing or painting , but there are always at least some cases in which our uncertainty is deepened by the absence of the expected signal , that it is or is not intended to be art . |
| 21 | It may even be possible that house prices have merely adjusted upwards to meet the extra spending power of those obtaining mortgages with tax relief attached . |
| 22 | But he might get the wrong person for his needs , possibly due to vacation , sickness , or the respondent may misunderstand the question , indeed , may well be unaware that certain information actually exists . |
| 23 | He may well be disappointed that the whole thing seems likely to fizzle out as death by misadventure . ’ |
| 24 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
| 25 | With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment , he may well be right that the future looks bright . |
| 26 | Prof Smith 's comments are noteworthy : The jury may well be sure that the defendant is guilty either of theft or of handling but quite unable to decide which . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It may well be true that Black people are inspired by the memory of their courage under slavery . |
| 29 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |
| 30 | Firstly , in relation to users and carers , the practitioner may well be aware that she is identifying and discussing needs which are unlikely to be met within the current limits and range of available services . |