Example sentences of "this may be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of this may be that the foods they do choose to eat are very limited . |
| 2 | One reason for this may be that the civil service 's centralized administrative structure , based on line departments , makes the task of developing an integrated strategy in the English regions exceptionally difficult to achieve . |
| 3 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 4 | A reason for this may be that R2 does not contain separate domains as lactoferrin but instead has a compact helix bundle structure . |
| 5 | One reason for this may be that it was overtaken — and , perhaps , undermined — by political developments . |
| 6 | The reasons for doing this may be that the animal maximises its chances of mating with somebody with whom it can have offspring while at the same time minimising the ill-effects of inbreeding . |
| 7 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |