Example sentences of "may [be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It may be that despite what has happened , he will simply stay on in Kigali until the time he was due to fly out . |
| 2 | ‘ Is it safe to do that , knowing one outcome may be that at the end of the process we exclude sexual abuse ? |
| 3 | It may be that at a low level of a graduated test scheme teachers may wish to acknowledge a pupil 's recognition of only an equilateral or isosceles triangle as a triangle . |
| 4 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 5 | It may be that at this time he was retained also by Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , who had awarded him a money fee before 1245 . |
| 6 | Modem linkage for Dawyck will be needed within the next five years , and it may be that at that point we could decide to install a multiplexor to deal with all of our external computer links — use of local EUCS services , JANET , PSS , Royline and others . |
| 7 | It may be that at various stages the teacher will rearrange the room . |
| 8 | Deep down inside , our belief may be that on the whole we 're a bad lot . |
| 9 | Indeed , it may be that on occasion physical ill-treatment is a consequence of the tension this sort of situation produces . |
| 10 | The Pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth , and it may be that on the basis of Freud 's analysis there is an important difference between those who are loved by the Pope as well as , and on behalf of , Christ , and those who are not loved by the Pope , and may indeed be actively hostile to him or his representatives . |
| 11 | It may be that on such a consultation the Lord Chief Justice will take a different view from that of the trial judge , but under the present procedure the prisoner will be unaware of any variation of the trial judge 's original advice . |
| 12 | It may be that on the facts of our problem the death of the leader is certain , hot merely probable , if the rope is not cut . |
| 13 | Erm now it may be that on a particular site erm conditions could be laid down to ensure and secure that there were significant employment benefits accruing from the development of that site . |
| 14 | It may be that by now his authority is too weak to hold up his end of a coalition bargain . |
| 15 | It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men . |
| 16 | Even so it may be that regarding each individual , he is less likely successfully to follow right reasons which apply to him anyway if left to himself than if he always obeys the directives of a just government including those which are morally reprehensible . |
| 17 | It may be that in the protestant — loyalist case this ethnic tendency may have priority over the British component of identity or be in conflict with it . |
| 18 | It may be that in your hallway is my second image of prayer , the telephone , that irritating friend whose shrill cry has to be answered . |
| 19 | The truth may be that in the long run , as Lincoln thought , people are not fooled . |
| 20 | But it may be that in the morning he will be better . |
| 21 | It may be that in order to combat a particular problem , a different bit might help . |
| 22 | It may be that in various painful and other unpleasant conditions animals deal with them by an increased usage of endogenous opioids . |
| 23 | It may be that in rivers there are times when two or even more shoals rendezvous at a point along a shared beat and pass each other — whether travelling in the same direction or not — by swimming over the top of whoever has arrived first . |
| 24 | It may be that in revitalising or developing a talent such as painting , sculpture , macrame , embroidery , carpentry or toy-making you can actually start to earn a living out if it , particularly if what 's on offer has an original slant . |
| 25 | It may be that in the past he has been humbled and had to change his thinking . |
| 26 | On the other hand , it may be that in practice a court would not refuse judicial review in a case of seriously illegal action even if an alternative remedy was available . |
| 27 | It may be that in attempting to start team teaching without the experience of preliminary resource-based and other approaches and without a great deal of shared discussion and curriculum planning some schools have plunged their staffs into an experience for which they were by no means ready . |
| 28 | We could perhaps speak of coming to ‘ know ’ being , but it may be that in this case ‘ knowledge ’ is itself a metaphor . |
| 29 | It may be that in New South Wales , Category 3 , which carries the seven-year penalty , has been constructed too broadly and that some conduct which it covers should have been placed within the more serious categories . |
| 30 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |