Example sentences of "[modal v] it [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 2 | But why should it be that Peggy gets a lift from knowing that she has ‘ beaten ’ Boris ? |
| 3 | Where , why might it be that if , if we 're actually talking about this mutation and things have changed it ? |
| 4 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 5 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |
| 6 | Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ? |
| 7 | Could it be that you are just a little bit jealous of The Great White North — a society , after all , rather less divisive and certainly more prosperous than decaying , decadent Britain ? |
| 8 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 9 | Could it be that he had invented the entire tableau , he wondered ? |
| 10 | There is one astounding omission from this list — could it be that Glyndebourne forgot the anniversary ? |
| 11 | Could it be that the Prime Minister did n't want to admit to a U-turn , to reneging on a commitment to European partners , ‘ some of those European Commissioners ’ , ‘ the mining areas ’ and ‘ the people of Britain ’ ? |
| 12 | Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ? |
| 13 | Or could it be that you are deft and capable in practical ways ( needed by a care assistant in social service , or as a nursing aide ) ? |
| 14 | Could it be that Albert 's eyes dulled a little ? |
| 15 | Could it be that the decision was taken in a temporary depression from drugs ? |
| 16 | How could it be that the cells that will form the gut and the bones and muscles are on the outside of the early embryo , yet they will form structures that are clearly on the inside of the animal ? |
| 17 | Could it be that the cytoplasm completely controls gene action ? |
| 18 | Could it be that a degree of PMS ( I do not mean suicidal or murderous tendencies ) is a perfectly reasonable response by a healthy reproductive system to the unnatural state of non-pregnancy ? |
| 19 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parlay an admission of poor husbandry into a public relations campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 20 | Could it be that the bureaucrats of primate research saw a way to parley an admission of poor husbandry into a public campaign for the primate centres ? |
| 21 | Could it be that the fusion community is trying to solve this problem early on ? |
| 22 | Or could it be that the front-runner in the fusion race does not look very promising as the basis of a reactor ? |
| 23 | Could it be that Octel 's handsomely presented claim that without lead alkyls the roads of ‘ most of the world would be very empty ’ has had the intended effect on one of our more propaganda resistant MPs ? |
| 24 | Could it be that the sponsor of the competition — Lloyds Bank — expects to revolutionise its money sorting system ? |
| 25 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 26 | Could it be that Sweezy and Rosdolsky were correct ? |
| 27 | Could it be that the natural wealth visible throughout the land is just too much to ignore ? |
| 28 | Could it be that they are discriminating unfairly against a gipsy family ? |
| 29 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 30 | Could it be that the calories supplied by a diet high in natural fibre were being digested and utilized in a different way by the human body ? |