Example sentences of "but it [vb mod] [adv] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully the new home which you are now considering as a prospective purchase will be suitable for your needs in every way , but it may well be that a need for some renovation or refurbishment is indicated from the surveyor 's report or that you will wish to make improvements or alterations of your own . |
| 2 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 3 | ‘ That is strict procedure but it may well be that we need to have another look . |
| 4 | Member States would normally be given eighteen months within which to incorporate the directive objectives into their domestic laws , but it may well be that in this case a shorter period is specified . |
| 5 | But it may well be that his prolonged failure ( now happily corrected ) to achieve political success was attributable to long memories . |
| 6 | The reasons for this are difficult to establish but it may well be that the university expansion coincided with an even greater expansion of candidates with A levels , with the result that competition for university places did not ease . |
| 7 | The reason for this divergence is not known , but it may well be that the conditions used for DNaseI treatment do not allow the formation of stable complexes resistant to the action of the enzyme . |
| 8 | In what follows , the traditional view — that Molla Fenari studied under Cemaleddin Aksarayi in Aksaray in Karamanis accepted , but it may well be that " Amasya " ought to be substituted for " Karaman " in the appropriate contexts . |
| 9 | Asik Celebi says no more about Molla Fenari 's fate , but it may well be that it was alter this experience that Molla Fenari went to Karaman . |
| 10 | Now , I 'll have to talk to your mums but it may well be that I sha n't be here in a fortnight 's time so we may |
| 11 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 12 | But it may also be that in the bourgeois family the essential inegalitarianism on which capitalism rested found a necessary expression . |
| 13 | But it might well be that an associatively activated X is simply not salient enough to produce effects of a measurable size . |
| 14 | But it might just be that we ca n't have both and we ca n't ensure that people vote from the right from moral motivation rather than personal interest and we ca n't ensure vote |