Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks . |
| 2 | It may be that he just does n't feel very well , and decided to stay in bed . |
| 3 | It may be that he saw this as the best means of curtailing a war that was tearing apart Christian Spain . |
| 4 | If you think about and watch the settings of your child 's behaviour , it may be that he or she behaves in a non-compliant way , or has a tantrum on some occasions but not others ; that is , some situations seem to act as cues for him or her to behave in a particular way . |
| 5 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |
| 6 | It may be that he was influenced in his thinking yet again by the British , whose officer class cultivated the honourable wound , and whose subalterns had lately contributed in altogether disproportionate numbers to the casualties suffered by the British army in France . |
| 7 | It may be that he had quarrelled bitterly with his kin and could see no remedy for his plight . |
| 8 | It may be that he was one of the many unlearned priests forced to absent themselves for the sake of their own education , but his going to Chester seems to suggest rather that he was both able and ambitious in the new province . |
| 9 | Even though , therefore , in 691 Aethelred confirmed a grant of land by Swaefheard to Abbess Aebbe in 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , and confirmed also the successive donations to Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , it may be that he was not entirely master of the situation . |
| 10 | But he will not yet be either , since he will not , at that stage have been ‘ entered on the register ’ and , it may be that he never will be . |
| 11 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 16 | ‘ I forgot the hour , ’ he added , and when Fabia , glancing at her watch , saw that , incredibly , it was getting on for three , she realised that when Ven was working it must be that he did n't give thought to food . |
| 17 | But Meg , it might be that he had stole her cubs , was not for his surrender . |
| 18 | That is , it might be that he had fully internalized the requisite mental structure , but for some reason lacked the capacity to use it . |
| 19 | so it might be that he could come , erm , anyway I 'll give you a copy of that |
| 20 | It might be that he was speaking the truth , but before she could answer footsteps sounded along the passage , and they both faced the door as his mother came reluctantly in . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't figure out which buttons to push but it might be that he 's rather more intelligent , ’ admits Dad . |
| 22 | It could be that he 's a very poor loser . ’ |
| 23 | It could be that he too was preoccupied nearer home , for example , in wars with the Welsh and the Life of Guthlac may provide evidence of this . |
| 24 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 25 | Alex Ferguson I wonder who he wants er I I think it could be that he 's after you know . |
| 26 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 27 | He may for instance need to intervene at the modification stage of the structure plan , or it could be that he will have to deal with appeals against non-determination of applications made by prospective developers . |
| 28 | And it could be that he will be battling his old team-mates for the big prize come the New Year . |
| 29 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |