Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may even be the school you know ? |
| 2 | It may even be the view of right hon. Gentlemen opposite in their secret hearts . |
| 3 | The right moment to begin , he wrote , is the moment when right and wrong are no longer an issue , it may even be the moment , he wrote , when the realization dawns and is at once accepted that another moment might have been equally valid , and when this no longer matters . |
| 4 | It may also be the case that reporting by Blacks of offences against Blacks was lower in the darker areas ; or that police are more inclined to ‘ cuff ’ ( i.e. not record ) Black offences in these areas , in the interests of improving race relations . |
| 5 | Yet it may also be the case that some difficult aspects of ‘ bargaining politics ’ are involved where policy success depends upon the response of other organizations . |
| 6 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 7 | Perhaps this is only a witty pleasantry ; it may also be the delight this woman takes in her young friend 's success . |
| 8 | It may also be the reason why , in its forty-year history , the Police Staff College has never achieved any real academic status ; for , as Lewis ( ibid. 183 ) also points out : |
| 9 | This difference is primarily an effect of the composition of the lava , but to a certain extent it may also be the result of the high proportion of phenocrysts present in the lava . |
| 10 | It may well be the case that an egregious idiocy has formed the basis of a political tradition — examples of this are plentiful — but ridiculing an historical phenomenon does not explain it . |
| 11 | It may well be the case that a social system organized by women would be wonderful , that there would be no war because we would n't have our children killed , that there would be communes and free child care and no VAT on sanitary protection … but how would we ever know ? |
| 12 | It may well be the case , as Struan says , that Beethoven displays more artistic merit than Struan , but if Struan 's music uses overdriven guitars , I may well prefer to listen to it . |
| 13 | Whilst there is wide agreement that investment is a necessary condition of economic growth and that within fairly wide margins higher levels of performance require higher levels of investment , the direction of this relationship can not be conclusively demonstrated ; it may well be the case that the two occur together . |
| 14 | It may well be the case , however , that to some degree fear of political change does inhibit civil servants , so that in order to ensure continuity they will only promote policies which they judge both major parties will accept . |
| 15 | It may well be the case — as some commentators have observed , perhaps unduly cynically — that the economic and political situation in 1979 was such that it mattered little what the government tried to control as long as they showed determination and resolve to control something ; the money supply happened to be both a convenient and a relevant variable at that time . |
| 16 | It may well be the case that Freud lost some of his earlier desire to see psychoanalysis help to achieve sexual reform . |
| 17 | It may well be the case that both lack of familiarity with this type of question and lack of practical experience in measurement of everyday objects are factors leading to low success rates . |
| 18 | It may well be the case that with regard to many people unlawfully at large this should be regarded as ‘ hot pursuit , ’ but the approach of the Court when faced with a patient absconder allows a choice of methods to be adopted . |
| 19 | In the result , although I have considerable sympathy with the third party in the position in which he finds himself and I think it may well be the case that the third defendant will fail to obtain contribution from him , I do not consider that this will inevitably be so . |
| 20 | It may well be the case that the very concept of adjudication as applied to disputes between private individuals will have to be modified in its application to litigation involving public bodies . |
| 21 | It may well be the case that the courts feel less inclined to intervene in relation to matters which are purely factual , but the juridical basis of intervention was never premised upon the need to distinguish between law and fact . |
| 22 | It may well be the case that we should have had more staff but I willingly accept that the tenfold increase in the number arriving has overwhelmed our resources . |
| 23 | Positive action rather than positive discrimination is the approach , and that , these are targets not erm , contracts , and if after four to eight years , it may well be the case that women have been taken on and have left and at the end of the time , that there there is no woman chartered engineer . |
| 24 | It may well be the case . |
| 25 | It may well be the case that the routine killings of the Lethal Weapon films should cause more concern than the genuinely revolting violence of The Silence of the Lambs and Reservoir Dogs . |
| 26 | The issue is not one of having to choose between a partner and a sport or hobby , but it may well be the choice between a partner and the complete freedom to please oneself . |
| 27 | If casual consumption of cocaine is down , it may well be the result of education and treatment programmes rather than criminal enforcement . |
| 28 | It may well be the reason why this motility pattern has previously attracted so little attention . |
| 29 | It 's , it 's , it 's very desperate and I 'm not saying that you would do it back because of that , but it may just be the thing that influences you to buy a particular brand , particularly the things which are heavily erm which have many alternatives to buy . |
| 30 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |