Example sentences of "the [noun] may be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a rape case the typical defence argument is that the woman consented to intercourse , while in sex murder the defence may be that she provoked him . |
| 2 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 3 | Although this may be unwelcome , particularly if you are very fond of the place in which you live , the alternative may be that you spend the next few years in a state of anxiety and misery because of money worries . |
| 4 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 5 | Yet as we noted in our tenth report : ‘ The price that some children may pay for demanding little of the teacher may be that they are given work which demands little of them ’ ( Alexander et al . |
| 6 | Given this variation in language forms and use , the danger may be that teachers do not realise the extent of the variation , or that they regard the creole language forms as haphazard . |
| 7 | Donald thinks otherwise — and the upshot may be that he will sue . |
| 8 | The truth may be that in the long run , as Lincoln thought , people are not fooled . |
| 9 | The truth may be that her stoical-witty-rueful literary persona may even steer the writer towards the sort of life that ensures her material does n't dry up . |
| 10 | If that is so , then the reason Papinian admits the daughter may be that he is inclined to favour the immediate family . |
| 11 | One of the messages from the Bill may be that bringing in those schemes and making them work is one way in which the engineers can show that they have as much to contribute in cutting the number of casualties as those who deal with the behavioural side of driving and those who build the bypasses that take traffic away from towns and villages . |
| 12 | The answer may be that some sorts of postmodernist de-differentiation are implicitly ‘ reactionary ’ , and other sorts potentially integral to a reconstructed left political culture , and still other sorts can politically cut either way . |
| 13 | The answer may be that it was the later decision . ) |
| 14 | The explanation may be that Richard Baxter still clung on to his vision for a united national church . |
| 15 | The explanation may be that the figurines were not intended for use as ornaments but were votives to he left in shrines : they had a symbolic , not an aesthetic , role to play . |
| 16 | The explanation may be that older women who had often completed their families were recruited to the study . |
| 17 | The reason may be that all who knew the deceased are thus reminded of him and are invited to pray for his repose ( through St Theresa or otherwise ) . |
| 18 | If in some of these instances the writer appears to be trying to get more out of a rendering than a rendering will reasonably yield , the reason may be that in Horace 's line there is a fortuitous convergence , a hovering ambivalence , of two possible constructions : , " the celestial losses of the moon " , i.e. the moon 's waning , and , " swift — i.e. quickly returning — moons " . |
| 19 | But in reality there is no such thing as a wholly insulated variety : however strong the links may be that bind a population together , there will always be some consciousness of external norms , and this will have two kinds of effect on in-group behaviour . |
| 20 | The down-side may be that you now see without any shadow of doubt that you can not exist in an emotional or sexual wilderness indefinitely . |
| 21 | Part of the problem may be that the Labour government of 1974–79 was unduly protecting jobs in northern nationalized industries , but Labour was then criticized for halting the growth of public-sector services . |