Example sentences of "this may [vb infin] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been because my hopes were raised when mention was made of the need to consider ‘ the environmental effect of each stage leading to an alternative energy system ’ . |
| 2 | In part this may have been because the trend towards larger-scale workplaces meant children were less likely to see them working ; but there is also evidence of the now growing pressure to retire . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | This may have been because , according to Jones , he attracted most of the blame . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This may have been because the lands of Ruthven were divided between two sons in 1480 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Although the previous studies have not demonstrated any simple relationship between previous knowledge of junctions and memory performance , this may have been because multiple exemplars of each junction were presented in the recognition studies . |
| 9 | Karen fears this may have been because of the news coverage the triplets had when they were born . |