Example sentences of "may [be] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bleeders , buggers and sods they may be before they arrive but , once they 're there , it 's her lap that they always land on . |
| 2 | Indeed , the most potent argument against it may be that we know only too well how protectionism contributed to the great depression of the 1930s . |
| 3 | It may be that we need to offer love , support and encouragement rather than using anger to force a child into what we believe they should or should not do . |
| 4 | It may be that we need to experiment with permanence units , some of which will specialise in achieving permanence through the return to natural families , and others in achieving permanence by placement with new families , and also having units which combine the two functions . |
| 5 | be , it may be that we need to get over to the States , to , to , erm pick up the technical vibes from there , but is the state , er our people in the States are n't in with . |
| 6 | The other development officer predicted making considerable use of volunteers as well as paid carers : ‘ it may be that we have two types of carer , an informal unpaid visiting service , and then the regular paid carers ’ . |
| 7 | It may be that we have upset someone and a rift exists . |
| 8 | In a letter to his congregation he said : ‘ It may be that we have no influence on those who plan and carry out murders in both parts of our community , but we can all help create a climate of opinion where they will be increasingly isolated and disowned . ’ |
| 9 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 10 | One reason why we find it so hard to understand the development of form may be that we do not make machines that develop : often , we understand biological phenomena only when we have invented machines with similar properties . |
| 11 | It may be that we do n't have to use all of that . |
| 12 | That is , the results shown in Fig. 5.7 may occur because rats generalize readily between stimuli that have had the same consequence in prior training ; but equally it may be that they generalize less readily between stimuli that have had differing consequences ; or both processes may be operating . |
| 13 | Lukoff and Whiteman ( 1960 ) found that blind pupils make blind friends when they have the opportunity to do so , and it may be that they need as they grow up to have some shared experience with children and young people who face similar challenges . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive . |
| 16 | It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship . |
| 17 | It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship . |
| 18 | It may be that they have been without God and alone and lost in the world and that through the preaching of the word they have become Christians . |
| 19 | It may be that they have just had their operation or they are just about to have it . ’ |
| 20 | It may be that they have found a way to train humans . |
| 21 | When archaic figures of this type first became known they were called ‘ Apollo ’ , and it may be that they have an early association with his worship , but certainly not all can represent him and the non-committal ‘ kouros ’ is preferable . |
| 22 | It may be that they have feelings stronger than law-abiding persons , which is why they have committed crimes . |
| 23 | It may be that they have discussed the matter with other witnesses , or even the opposition , and reconsidered their evidence . |
| 24 | But I 'll I 'll have to find out from them , it may be that they do n't want me to send anybody else to it because I made the initial contact with them . |
| 25 | Well it may be that they do n't know how to , or that they set out such patterns of relating together that they have n't got the means of coping with it . |
| 26 | ‘ The most obvious thing in mine may be that I like to work with numbers , but if I 've an urge to be an innovator too , I probably wo n't make a successful auditor . |
| 27 | All the events recorded in this book took place more than forty years ago and memories are apt to play tricks on us , so it may be that I have made a few mistakes . |
| 28 | ‘ It may be that I have seen this place . |
| 29 | It may be that I find a situation hard to manage because I am apparently unable to prevent myself from reacting with paralysing anger when spoken to in this way . |
| 30 | It may be that you receive praise for a piece of work well done , and suddenly you feel that you made the right decision to leave the family home and strike out on your own . |