Example sentences of "or it may 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 . |