Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He may still be that , ’ she said . |
| 2 | And it can be particularly useful to have some background in this area , as a first job may often be that of an ‘ acting ASM ’ — particularly if you join a small touring group or a Theatre in Education company . |
| 3 | It may well be that risk-taking companies are managed by risk-taking individuals with powerful personalities . |
| 4 | Means , in most of the reported cases , the naked penis although it may well be that exposure of the vagina would be within the mischief the offence is trying to prevent . |
| 5 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 6 | It may well be that , as a result of such descriptions , the researcher , or other people , develop theories about why the people concerned behave as they do . |
| 7 | It may well be that , for the Church historian of the middle of the twenty-first century , the tensions of the period of John Paul II through which we are now passing will themselves appear as but an interlude in the process initiated by the Council , and ending in a form of Catholicism still unimaginable today . |
| 8 | But it may well be that , like Whistler , Mr Rocke did not make notes but simply took a steady look and remembered . |
| 9 | It may well be that , in varieties that have supra-local functions , a high degree of complexity ( at any level ) is indeed dysfunctional . |
| 10 | ‘ It may well be that … the only absolutely sure way of ensuring that a guarantee or charge from a third party is valid is to insist on that party being independently advised . |
| 11 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 12 | Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting . |
| 13 | Indeed it may well be that power is not linked to the position of an individual within the formal structure of an organisation at all . |
| 14 | It may well be that , throughout our careers we are motivated by the desire to satisfy different needs . |
| 15 | But it may well be that , to a degree that he would never have admitted , de Gaulle the politician had shared in the optimistic illusions of the liberation . |
| 16 | It may well be that weighting needs to be applied to er er the various criteria and I think that elected members are the appropriate starting point for er applying er er applying that weighting . |
| 17 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 18 | This might be because building societies have developed some new product which personal savers prefer to National Savings certificates or it may simply be that interest rate differentials have changed in favour of the societies . |
| 19 | And for many smaller powers , the main lesson of the Gulf War may indeed be that , as a result of recent technological advances , the best value for military budgets comes from adopting defensive policies . |
| 20 | It may indeed be that for some teachers there really is no possibility of working with real integrity , and consequently no possibility of deriving any deep satisfaction from what they do . |
| 21 | It may therefore be that , if a technique were ever found to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design , it might reveal that in a number of cases such innovation had net costs , to management , rather than net benefits . |