Example sentences of "may be [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one good effect of the poll tax may be that it forces the sale of these empty properties to people who will breathe new life into half-dead communities . |
| 2 | It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions . |
| 3 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 4 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 5 | Where soil is being removed slowly it may be that it has built up in layers and a ‘ case hardening ’ effect is experienced . |
| 6 | Rather than enticing your man , its real value may be that it makes you feel sexier and therefore more likely to initiate or respond to his overtures . |
| 7 | It may be that it suited occasionally that the same parish priest looked after both of them . |
| 8 | A member of our research team will show a tape of one of the programmes and hopefully that will persuade whoever it may be that it might not be such a bad thing to appear on it . |
| 9 | It may be that it is those least disposed to commit suicide who join the cult in the first place , but at least the systematic comparison of variables has led to the question being raised . |
| 10 | In that case the reason the whole has a value other than the sum of the values of its parts , considered as capable of existing unaltered in other wholes , may be that it is a radical mistake to think of them as capable of so doing . |
| 11 | It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for . |
| 12 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 13 | It may be that it is a price which none of us will pay . |
| 14 | An initial diagnosis of the Gettier counter-examples may be that it is just luck that Henry 's justified belief is true . |
| 15 | One reason for this lack of success may be that it is unlikely that individuals will make public , in a regular meeting , what is on their left-hand columns . |
| 16 | There can , after all , be more than one possible explanation why a witness may retract evidence given by him on a previous occasion ; and , as must have been contemplated in Reg. v. Donat , 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , one possibility may be that it is the later retraction , rather than the earlier evidence , which is not worthy of belief . |
| 17 | Another related reason may be that it is not at all clear what it is that is transmitted during inter-hemispheric transfer . |
| 18 | To what extent this was the result of Jill 's campaign will probably never be known , but it may be that it coincided with and reinforced a growing feeling in the Foreign Office and elsewhere that intransigence was no longer in Britain 's interests . |
| 19 | It may be that it was the removal of Oswine which enabled Oswiu and Penda to treat on these equal terms . |
| 20 | Among the West Saxons it may be that it was Aethelbald 's support which enabled Aethelheard to defeat the aetheling , Oswald , and that this established both Aethelheard and his brother , Cuthred , who subsequently succeeded Aethelheard in 739 , as Aethelbald 's dependants or at least obliged them to make territorial concessions . |
| 21 | It may be that it was because he was so secure in East Anglia that Offa was subsequently able to involve himself so much more forcefully in the south-east . |
| 22 | The disadvantages of market-orientation may be that it requires special leadership ( a ‘ bureaucratic ’ management would fail to achieve the required inter-relationships between the organisation and its customers ) and is likely to be costly in terms of staffing and other overheads . |
| 23 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 24 | When pecuniary losses are added the outcome of an assessment of the plaintiff 's damage may be that it is worth , say , between £8,000 and £10,500 . |
| 25 | The way in which this is worked out in law may be that it would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow the creditor under such circumstances to sue , or it may be , and I prefer that view , that there is an extinction of the debt ; but , whichever way it is put , it comes to the same thing , namely that , after acceptance by the creditor of a sum offered by a third party in settlement of the claim against the debtor , the creditor can not maintain an action for the balance … . |
| 26 | It may be that it 's time to look again , even though this new rule has been enforced for only these elections , at this particular method of positive discrimination . |
| 27 | I , I mean it may not be right , but it , I mean as I think you can see it has a kind of logic about it , erm and , and i it may be that it , it 's not the right explanation , but the very fact that erm we 're suggesting it , I think shows that erm again it 's naive to think that motherhood is a kind of er is a one-sided affair where you know mothers sacrifice themselves er for their offspring , because nature demands it . |
| 28 | Erm we have put forward an alternative er mechanism for environmental discounts and er I can say by at this stage , by reference to the erm critique that has taken place of that of those environmental discounts in N Y eleven , that erm , while we would n't go along with making anywhere near the the additions that are suggested there , erm it may be that it would be sensible to make a further discount in respect of the heritage coast . |
| 29 | The answer may be that it was the later decision . ) |
| 30 | It may be that it exists essentially for the purpose of meshing sentence-construction with pragmatic principles ; for example , for " foregrounding " and " backgrounding " informational content ( or , in the terms preferred in this book , for eliciting certain pragmatic implications ) . |