Example sentences of "that may [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be Morrissey ridiculing the entire music business , cheapening it even , but , in doing so , he was merely ridiculing himself . |
| 2 | Further investigation suggests that while that may be part of the story it is almost certainly not all of it . |
| 3 | That may be part of her gutteral language : it is certainly not part of mine . |
| 4 | That may be part of some bigger game going on about busting unions in Germany , we 're not green about that , but again the same question arises in the interrogation . |
| 5 | If more red than green members of a species of moth living on green foliage are being killed by predators , that may be selection ; but only if the predators are not colour-blind ; if they are it is random sampling error . |
| 6 | So , too , if you shift my bicycle from a public stand in order to get at your own , and forget to replace mine so that it is stolen by someone , that may be trespass , but it is not conversion . |
| 7 | They even say there is protein , but that may be propaganda . ’ |
| 8 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |