Example sentences of "may [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions . |
| 33 | The only gain from what at times were acrimonious exchanges may be that the British Boxing Board of Control will renew its vigilance in the protection of its licensed boxers , before a campaign to stop boxing takes on a more menacing shape for those involved in the business . |
| 34 | The argument will be harsh , and if the threat of disaster is vivid enough to bring about agreement , it may be that nations will find that , in the interest of common purpose , they are little by little surrendering the sovereignty of which Sir Ian Lloyd spoke . |
| 35 | It may be that they are in fact onycophorans , a group of arthropods now represented by caterpillar-like velvet worms that burrow through dead wood in Australia . |
| 36 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 37 | It may be that by now his authority is too weak to hold up his end of a coalition bargain . |
| 38 | It may be that the gap between Mr Yeltsin 's policies and Mr Gorbachev 's is too great . |
| 39 | The only difference with hostile takeovers may be that the prices are higher . |
| 40 | If the wife can so easily dispose of this property , it may be that her husband will coax or bully her into parting with it to him or to his creditors , and so it allows her a privilege which no other grown-up person of sound mind in the country can enjoy . |
| 41 | In none of these cases do we think of the owner as having parted with the right of ownership , though it may be that the contract between the parties creates rights in favour of the bailee which the owner can not use his right of ownership to override . |
| 42 | It may be that in your hallway is my second image of prayer , the telephone , that irritating friend whose shrill cry has to be answered . |
| 43 | It may be that Dickens was a better psychologist than some of his critics . |
| 44 | The truth may be that in the long run , as Lincoln thought , people are not fooled . |
| 45 | The result of this may be that the foods they do choose to eat are very limited . |
| 46 | It may be that this will gradually work through and become apparent in the activists in about five years . |
| 47 | But a person going about it seriously has to discount his own personal opinion , which may be that all coloured people should — um — be expelled from the country , and decide what is in the best interests of the country as a whole , given that there is a large — er — ethnic problem . |
| 48 | In the second example it may be that the person has to deal with the surrounding bereavements before she can clear the ground enough to look at what was probably the major one . |
| 49 | It may be that friends and relatives who are less affected by the death of the family member , could give some special attention to the children who are wanting to be comforted and to be told what is going on . |
| 50 | Rather than sending the children out when the adults want to talk , it may be that a neighbour could make sure to include them in an outing to give the child time to talk to them . |
| 51 | The main difference for the very old , then , may be that whereas when they were younger it would have been possible to work through the effects of multiple grief and achieve some new balance in life , forming new relationships and so on , in old age this is less likely . |
| 52 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
| 53 | It may be that the Protestants of Northern Ireland would acquiesce in the new kingly order . |
| 54 | It may be that Somerset was as much in the grip of the obsession to unite England and Scotland as ever Edward I or Henry VIII had been , while like them asserting English power in France ; for he continued Henry 's policy of war on two fronts , at enormous financial expense , and ultimately at the cost of his own position in England . |
| 55 | One reason why we find it so hard to understand the development of form may be that we do not make machines that develop : often , we understand biological phenomena only when we have invented machines with similar properties . |
| 56 | Donald thinks otherwise — and the upshot may be that he will sue . |
| 57 | The truth may be that her stoical-witty-rueful literary persona may even steer the writer towards the sort of life that ensures her material does n't dry up . |
| 58 | It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness . |
| 59 | It may be that some wavering ex-Tory voters , worried by the imminent prospect of a Labour government , have responded to the Tory Party 's warnings that a vote for Paddy Ashdown would be ‘ a vote to let Labour in ’ . |
| 60 | ‘ I know that no harm was intended and it may be that no harm was done . |