Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that to choose is to distort so protean an entity . |
| 2 | It may be that , even if the final stages of bringing the marriage about had temporarily overshadowed the making of the First Band , the Protestant threat thus created had sufficiently alarmed Mary of Guise and Hamilton into reacting with swift and exemplary violence once Mary was safely married . |
| 3 | It may be that August 1 would now have to be a more realistic target date . |
| 4 | While small farmers and part-time farmers have to adapt to a changing agriculture , in exactly the same way as large farming businesses , their options for coping with changed circumstances are fewer and it may be that training and the development of new skills and the reinforcement of old skills are important elements in widening their range of options . |
| 5 | There is a general rule that the holder may disclose information held in confidence if necessary to protect his own interests , and it may be that disclosure is justified if needed to protect someone from harm . |
| 6 | ‘ It may be that for a very few the search itself is a necessity . ’ |
| 7 | It may be that with a patient who is terminally ill or aged , the doctor 's obligation does not extend to anything more than the relief of pain and making the patient comfortable . |
| 8 | It may be that , as more scientific information is gathered on fish physiology , the evidence for believing that fish feel pain might become overwhelming and the Society may have to come out firmly against this sport . |
| 9 | It may be that with greater equality and emancipation the proportion of female criminals will rise . |
| 10 | It may be that , for them , a warm glow of public-spirited righteousness or a curriculum with work-experience , injected like silicone into a misshapen body , are sufficient reward . |
| 11 | It may be that , over time , education can take a long term view of itself through the medium of the successful business . |
| 12 | It may be that osteopathy or chiropractic could help ; and both osteopaths and chiropractors have had a long training which includes medical education and qualifies them to give valuable help with backache . |
| 13 | It may be that fascination with the problems of why palatable insects are brightly coloured has caused us to overlook Darwin 's problems of why unpalatable insects are brightly coloured in the first place . |
| 14 | It may be that gluten is important , but only in a fairly small proportion of schizophrenia cases . |
| 15 | If there is none , it may be that work-place chemicals , or generalized exposures ( eg air pollution ) are the problem . |
| 16 | It may be that Coilus was , in fact . |
| 17 | For instance it may be that , viewed at this point , the woman has a quality of cautious practicality and by comparison the man seems a reckless dreamer , which is hard to see as anything but a weakness . |
| 18 | This may be because low staff turnover creates less need for induction and job training and more need for development training or it may be that job training is more likely to be taken for granted . |
| 19 | It may be that , in some areas , registration officers were less than assiduous in chasing up the laggards . |
| 20 | It may be that , in his desire to show how little support his findings give for the Blauner and Mallet theses about the determining influence of technology , Gallie underplays the role technology can play . |
| 21 | That is to say , given people 's general reluctance to owe money , it may be that the ‘ old ’ balance of choice between not buying . |
| 22 | If the answer is ‘ no ’ then it may be that counselling has not yet reached a sufficiently advanced stage in the process , and we may have to return to earlier stages . |
| 23 | Some thought has to be given to what is possible and it may be that time out can not be used . |
| 24 | It may be that with adequate supervision and a period of reorientation it will not take very long to prepare yourself for a new role , but do take care to acknowledge your limitations , and to make known to your manager how these are likely to affect the care you give . |
| 25 | Although they have managed without financial support from us in the past , things are getting progressively difficult and it may be that should we help them financially as well as with manpower . |
| 26 | It may be that bargaining structures and processes can be more usefully approached within a broader framework as secondary , or intervening , variables which are themselves dependent upon more basic socio-economic forces within modern industrial societies ( Shalev , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | It may be that for the public gallery , media ‘ reality ’ is political reality . |
| 28 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Alternatively , it may be that Sivapithecus precedes the splitting of the great apes , so that the combination of cranial characters shared by it and the orang-utan must have arisen independently . |
| 30 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |