Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb mod] [be] that " in BNC.

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1 This may be coincidence , or it may be that the star system in French intellectual culture requires its major performers to be visibly on stage .
2 as at present there are three 2.5 litre turbo diesel engines in use — the VM in the Range Rover , the 200 TDi in the Discovery and the 2.5 in the Defender — or it may be that the Land Rover unit is not as reliable as other Land Rovers have been and Land Rover Ltd have realised this . ?
3 Or it may be that the formal resource is just not perceived to be of all that much importance .
4 Or it may be that one of them alone is , after all , the true explanation of the vivid coat of stripes .
5 Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual .
6 This may either be because of ‘ backsliding ’ — a reversion to a previous state of interlanguage — or it may be that the increased transferability of knowledge , which must to some degree involve analysis , calls for the recurrent dismantling and reassembling of linguistic forms which the learner may have internalized as complete formulaic units .
7 It may prompt further , more wide-ranging research , providing ideas to be followed up later , or it may be that some broad generalization is brought to life by a case-study .
8 It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for .
9 Or it may be that the internal organization of the firm is such that it replicates a capital market so that middle managers are obliged to profit-maximize .
10 This may reflect King Henry 's more immediate concern with rebels whose main fortress was only fifteen miles south-west of Poitiers , or it may be that Count William of Angoulême was overshadowed by the more vigorous personality of the new head of the house of Lusignan , Geoffrey de Lusignan .
11 He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else .
12 Employees may feel a sense of powerlessness in taking on a large organization or it may be that advisers are more reluctant to take on large organizations .
13 Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate .
14 Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch .
15 Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier .
16 It may be that you are investigating these evil people on behalf of your government , or it may be that you are ordered to co-operate with them .
17 It may be that the effect of diagnosis is real and that duodenal ulcer is more persistent than gastric ulcer , or it may be that a higher proportion of gastric ulcer patients have been operated upon in the time between the two periods of registrations of drug use .
18 Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises .
19 If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two .
20 They may need to reorganize because of demography — that 's the number of pupils that are in a particular area , where you 've got too many schools , or it may be that they want to change the type of offer , such as some of us want to do in the City of Oxford .
21 Or it might be that you have to learn to give yourself credit for what you are able to achieve .
22 We must , in , be constantly aware that correlation , a systematic relationship between two variables X and Y , does not imply causation ; it may be that a change in a characteristic or variable X causes a change in another variable Y , it might be that a change in Y causes a change in X , it might be that they both affect each other , or it might be that neither affects the other , but that a change in a further variable , Z , is responsible for the changes in both X and Y.
23 It might be that there really is nothing else of importance , or it might be that I just do n't want to make the whole of me available .
24 Or it might be that you do n't want to talk about her because there is something to hide ?
25 It could be that you were suddenly changing your motion , or it might be that an extra force of gravity had been switched on .
26 Or it might be that she would have to barricade the windows against the revenants , against all the figures from the history books who had once had a lease on life and property and wanted their rights back .
27 Or it could be that the writer believes that he has adequately represented the sound of sh by using the s ; in which case , his auditory analysis is poor .
28 Perhaps she was not feeling well , or it could be that she resented Lissa 's intrusion into the office .
29 Now you may as a manager think well you do n't have to do it all yourself , you can use senior people within your section who have the knowledge or you can use training officers or you can use people like ourselves at the training centre or the C B T or the I Vs or it could be that you bring the marketing department to help you out .
30 It could be that you 're giving them some stuff that we already know or it could be that you 're giving them some stuff which is far too advanced for them , they do n't have the basics there .
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