Example sentences of "it may be [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that it suited occasionally that the same parish priest looked after both of them . |
| 2 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 3 | Indeed , it may be that it goes further , and effectively means that the seller has not undertaken to deliver the goods at all , so that it may be argued that the seller has undertaken no obligation and , prior to delivery , there is only a unilateral contract under which the buyer is committed to pay if the seller delivers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |