Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] may be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this may be that the civil service 's centralized administrative structure , based on line departments , makes the task of developing an integrated strategy in the English regions exceptionally difficult to achieve . |
| 2 | A reason for this may be that R2 does not contain separate domains as lactoferrin but instead has a compact helix bundle structure . |
| 3 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the plus side of that may be that you are good at working alone without constant supervision . |
| 5 | The result of this may be that the foods they do choose to eat are very limited . |
| 6 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 7 | Indeed , the lesson of 1979 may be that a government which can not be certain of winning a vote of confidence in the Commons would be well advised to call an election . |
| 8 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |