Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 2 | It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation . |
| 3 | And it may be that that 's the way they work , I 'm not quite sure what you 're supposed to do on this one . |
| 4 | It may be that all the sporting rights are held by the landowner , that the landowner is the occupier , or that the tenant has all the rights . |
| 5 | Given Nicolae 's peculiar lack of empathy with other people , it may be that all his human emotions were concentrated on her , and on getting and keeping power of course . |
| 6 | It may be that all that is required is a little lateral thinking . |
| 7 | Not all summons forms can be used as addresses ( e.g. hey you in ( 47 ) can not occur in the slot occupied by Madam in ( 48 ) ) , although it may be that all addresses can be used as summonses ( Zwicky , 1974 : 791 ) . |
| 8 | In another area it may be that all the fast food shops are all close to each other and so there is bound to be a congestion when the pubs empty . |
| 9 | It may be that such moves towards a willingness to detach comment from political allegiance and dogma is a passing fad but it does also suggest that many journalists are uneasy about blind , albeit volunteered , political commitment . |
| 10 | It may be that such historical exemplars , rather like foreign comparisons , are largely used to legitimate a particular contemporary point of view , rather than constituting a real and unbroken tradition . |
| 11 | It may be that such an individual has created an overseas trust or is the beneficiary under an overseas trust and the income is taken out from the trust and used to pay the interest on the overseas loan outside the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | ‘ It may be that many employed people preserve themselves from anxiety and insight into their real selves by contemplating themselves at work ’ |
| 13 | It may be that many children will live for years with only episodes of severe illness . |
| 14 | It may be that few people in Japan have yet made this connection , or realise the sheer scale of the catastrophe in Africa . |
| 15 | If someone has learned how to operate a word-processor or complete an accurate and intelligible technical drawing then it may be that these are skills he can build upon and will not have to relearn . |
| 16 | And it may be that these disadvantages help to cause parental difficulties , and hamper good parenting . |
| 17 | Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area . |
| 18 | It may be that these serve in some way as an indication of the quality of the male to the female . |
| 19 | It may be that these ways of speaking can be explicated at bottom only by way or the idea of necessitation . |
| 20 | On the contrary , it is a matter of great urgency that the mother 's case should be heard because , at the end of the day , it may be that these children should live in the future with their mother . |
| 21 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 22 | It may be that these West Saxon kings were obliged to join the Mercian ruler on occasion at least in his military campaigns , as indeed earlier kings had assisted Penda and Wulfhere . |
| 23 | Or it may be that these animals somehow embody that peculiar quality of untamed wildness that readers admire and appreciate . |
| 24 | If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism . |
| 25 | It may be that these portfolios both have the same level of expected return but the APT points out they are subject to very different types of risk . |
| 26 | It may be that these differences in proliferative organisation between the skin and oesophagus explain why metaplasia and cancer are relatively rare in response to contact carcinogens in the former but common in the latter epithelium . |
| 27 | It may be that these cases are an authorial slip ; but the point seems to be that Lok is shown painfully developing analytic skills . |
| 28 | It may be that both cases are standard , pre-wired back-up ploys : differentiating tripped from untripped flowers could simply be a far more precise use of the associative learning program , while chewing through may be a strategy normally held in reserve for robbing flowers too small to enter . |
| 29 | At the present time , it is not possible to distinguish between the other alternative explanations , though it may be that both factors operate to modulate the pattern of frequencies recorded at the body surface . |
| 30 | It may be that most managers decide job evaluation is very difficult , extremely time-consuming , and too expensive . |