Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [be] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |
| 2 | Or , perhaps , it may have been that she had married him . |
| 3 | Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships . |
| 4 | Er it may have been but you ca n't we have n't got much evidence for that . |
| 5 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 6 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 7 | it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement |
| 8 | This may have been because he was ignorant or stupid but , reading between the lines of Heinz 's file , it is more likely that the foreman had taken against his young charge who was ‘ very intelligent and conceited ’ . |
| 9 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 10 | They may write is for his , or Inglish for English , because that 's the way it sounds when people say it . |