Example sentences of "but it may [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
| 2 | Obviously , that was not the case but it may be that Viola was so used to people thinking like that about her that she felt a need to assert herself as well . |
| 3 | But it may be that in the morning he will be better . |
| 4 | The court does not offer any criteria of awfulness ; but it may be that the law will reflect those factors involved in the analysis of the circumstances in which treatment is considered to be ethically not indicated . |
| 5 | But it may be that God 's primordial action occurs in the previous verse : And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters . |
| 6 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 7 | Boys appear to outnumber girls by about five to one , but it may be that girls with the problem are less overtly hyperactive , and tend to display more subtle symptoms , such as inattention , speech disorders and mood changes , which may not always be identified as hyperkinetic syndrome . |
| 8 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 9 | There is a lot to be learnt from standing back and observing the way a child plays with shape and form , but it may be that the child will want to talk about it afterwards , or ask for help to find particular shape materials as he works . |
| 10 | This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour . |
| 11 | Example 4 still remains a problem , but it may be that books could be suggested as more likely than boots from semantic co-occurrence information , or from frequency of use from a corpus ( books is five times more likely to occur than boots ) , especially if weighted from a count of occurrence in the script recognised so far . |
| 12 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 13 | But it may be that the company is producing a range of products and has set up separate units or subsidiaries to exploit each product market . |
| 14 | You 're doing all the right things but it may be that the source of the irritation is from within your vagina rather than just on the outer labia . |
| 15 | Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to . |
| 16 | We could perhaps speak of coming to ‘ know ’ being , but it may be that in this case ‘ knowledge ’ is itself a metaphor . |
| 17 | There can be a vital need for the encouragement of this type of activity , but it may be that a more conscious and directed effort by Dupont would have led to an earlier breakthrough and increased profitability from the work . |
| 18 | ‘ If this [ the limitation to the relationship of master and servant ] is so , it is unfortunate ; but it may be that the provision is not so severely limited . |
| 19 | To what extent this was the result of Jill 's campaign will probably never be known , but it may be that it coincided with and reinforced a growing feeling in the Foreign Office and elsewhere that intransigence was no longer in Britain 's interests . |
| 20 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 21 | But it may be that there is a lesson here for the West as well . |
| 22 | The underlying assumption is that this age gap between pupils in the same class is not important , but it may be that younger children are at a disadvantage educationally . |
| 23 | But it may be that what we do is is as you say that we Does that guidance thing give general broad headings ? |
| 24 | There were many highlights in her career as a campaigner for women 's rights , but it may be that her greatest contribution was the way she inspired others . |
| 25 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
| 26 | But it may be that an unusual boost at A level could place students in situations where they find themselves uncomfortably out-performanced by their peers . |
| 27 | But it may be that the way forward is to look at secondment ( from the Dublin office has been seconded to Sri Lanka for several months . |
| 28 | This is the kind of matter upon which historians will forever disagree , but it may be that Swegen did have his position in Denmark threatened by Swedes and Slavs at some time in the 990s . |
| 29 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 30 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |