Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are . |
| 2 | It may be they 've bitten off more than they can chew . |
| 3 | So if you can get the balance and you can get all four also what 's interesting as well is if you 've got a very low score at something , it may be they think well perhaps I need to develop that , if I do n't apparently learn a lot from getting and having a go , perhaps I 'd actually learn more if I can develop that more enjoyment from that and I can see the benefit from it . |
| 4 | It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are . |
| 5 | We do not innovate ; it may be we renovate what was customary with those same ancients , but with you has disappeared in novelties . ’ |
| 6 | When we are passive , and the ethereal medium which is the keeper of such images , not broken up by thought , is like clear glass or calm water , then there is often a glowing of colour and form upon it , and there is what may be a reflection from some earth memory connected with the place we move in or it may be we have direct vision of that memory … |
| 7 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 8 | It may be something to do with Dawn leaving the practice , and I ca n't say that 's terribly interesting . ’ |
| 9 | It may be you see that the manufacturing flavour of the past two years was to do with the pre er Common Market period getting inside the European Union ring fence with the manufacturing plant and there is speculation as to whether that will now change that the Common Market is now established and that that window of opportunity for manufacturing has tended to recede suggesting that it may be erm administrative er er services service sector that erm these international companies would now want inside the Union . |
| 10 | It may be you have n't got time , energy , effort , manpower to do more than one press release . |
| 11 | ‘ The trouble is there is just one female wallaby in his compound so it may be he has followed his natural instinct to go in search of more , ’ Mr Hutchinson said after a day-long search . |
| 12 | Both men were silent for a moment then , clutching at a straw , Herr Nordern said , ‘ It must be something to do with you . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it must be something to do with the pickled cabbage . |
| 14 | Then there will be some days when nothing seems to resolve and so I always forget those days and do something else completely — I am sure it must be something to do with electricity in the air . ’ |
| 15 | It must be something to do with being an anthropologist , she decided . |
| 16 | It must be something to do , he decided , with her lack of a formal education . |
| 17 | They 're l lead men you know and he has er painted this and it must be something to do with these men but these drawings now , I 've never seen drawings like them |
| 18 | It must be something to do with you . |
| 19 | I have nothing here , but I mean you said Ukraine already to buy it , they 're not allowed calls , telephone calls , not out , not in , closed postage as well so it must be something stuck in there |
| 20 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 21 | It must be this new dish that 's changed , it must be I du n no . |
| 22 | They suffered from bronchial diseases — even the children — and Jane made herself unpopular by suggesting it might be something to do with the ubiquitous air conditioning . |
| 23 | It might be something to do with the weather or with the experiences of travelling to the meeting . |
| 24 | It might be something to do with the two four foot tanks in his hallway or the huge 6′ × 2′ × 2′ Tanganyikan set-up in his lounge , housing among others , some fine Frontosas . |
| 25 | Oh , it might be something to do with the . |
| 26 | We did actually have er , it 's a , I think what it might be we had a lady who came to brought her son , mind , her son 's thirty odd and they did the singing for us . |
| 27 | minus one , it might be you know erm for example that might be . |
| 28 | I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something |
| 29 | Och it might be I du n no it might be with you bending it that there 's a bump on that string . |
| 30 | it might be I 've got eleven |