Example sentences of "may [vb infin] be [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been that its conflicts with the communists exaggerated its importance . |
| 2 | One reason for this may have been the conventional wisdom that secularisation had made the subject well nigh irrelevant , another reason may have been that there are few areas in which the methodological problems are as acute as they are in the investigation of people 's beliefs and/or the assessment of the effect that these have upon the rest of society . |
| 3 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |
| 4 | Or , simply , it may have been that his feet were bad . |
| 5 | Or , perhaps , it may have been that she had married him . |
| 6 | Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships . |
| 7 | Er it may have been but you ca n't we have n't got much evidence for that . |
| 8 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 9 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 10 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 11 | it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement |
| 12 | This may have been because he was ignorant or stupid but , reading between the lines of Heinz 's file , it is more likely that the foreman had taken against his young charge who was ‘ very intelligent and conceited ’ . |
| 13 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 14 | This may have been because my hopes were raised when mention was made of the need to consider ‘ the environmental effect of each stage leading to an alternative energy system ’ . |
| 15 | They may write is for his , or Inglish for English , because that 's the way it sounds when people say it . |
| 16 | One problem which such an approach may pose is that there may be nothing left for special treatment . |