Example sentences of "it not be that " in BNC.
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1 | It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’ |
2 | Could it not be that during cleavage , when the egg divides up , each cell acquires special determinants , either cytoplasmic or nuclear , which would control the cell 's future development ? |
3 | Warlow and his supporters point to the fact that certain quasars ( highly energetic galaxies ) have jets of material emerging from their cores : could it not be that stars and big gassy planets can behave analogously ? |
4 | Might it not be that the glowing auras are in fact photographs of the soul ? |
5 | Could it not be that today 's mania for ‘ disseminating ’ and ‘ promoting ’ culture expressions which should be banned has actually caused the prevailing sterility ? |
6 | Could it not be that the same was true in quantum theory ? |
7 | May it not be that the outcome reflects the real motive — the wish to procure an external realization of a regressive , inner phantasy , that of the supreme parent of earliest childhood ? |