Example sentences of "may be that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
| 4 | It may be that they left the gate open when they went , and Joe just trotted out . ’ |
| 5 | If the speaker is lying , for instance , it may be that what caused his utterance was something quite opposed to belief in what he meant to say , or a favourable attitude towards what his utterance was meant to commend . |
| 6 | It may be that it suited occasionally that the same parish priest looked after both of them . |
| 7 | To what extent this was the result of Jill 's campaign will probably never be known , but it may be that it coincided with and reinforced a growing feeling in the Foreign Office and elsewhere that intransigence was no longer in Britain 's interests . |
| 8 | In a rape case the typical defence argument is that the woman consented to intercourse , while in sex murder the defence may be that she provoked him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Of course it may be that she returned here with the deceased last night and he went out again on his own , but it does n't seem likely . ’ |
| 11 | If the reason you left nursing in the first place was boredom or disillusionment , it may be that you had drifted into an environment which failed to take advantage of your best qualities . |
| 12 | It may be that he had quarrelled bitterly with his kin and could see no remedy for his plight . |
| 13 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 14 | I can not quite recall what he said ; it may be that he said nothing , which , rather than utter anything trite , he sometimes preferred to do . |
| 15 | It may be that he saw this as the best means of curtailing a war that was tearing apart Christian Spain . |
| 16 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |