Example sentences of "may [adv] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler . |
| 2 | It may thus be that a client is a corporate finance client for some activities but not for others . |
| 3 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 4 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 5 | The output comparisons have to take into account social , economic and political considerations : it may just be that in Rochester the residents prefer not to have to drag their refuse up the garden path , at any price . |
| 6 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 7 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 8 | It may also be that women have a greater need of seeing some of the qualities of the future . |
| 9 | Since the social class assessment is based on husband 's occupation , it may also be that the ‘ deviants ’ are more ‘ working class ’ or ‘ middle class ’ on several important dimensions than their class-categorization itself indicates . |
| 10 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 11 | It may also be that such employers were , at least in the early 1970s , less prepared to make the organizational adjustments which make it feasible for mothers to combine paid work with responsibility for young children . |
| 12 | It may also be that policies and practices have changed since the survey was carried out , for example because of a change in political control . |
| 13 | It may also be that the aims and intentions of Penda and his allies were mixed . |
| 14 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 15 | It may also be that the limited review which the theory allows is unacceptable on policy grounds . |
| 16 | It may also be that we look for different attributes in different parts of the public service . |
| 17 | It may also be that her naughtiness is her way of telling you she 's not ready for the toddler group yet . |
| 18 | It may also be that the agent would be asked to advise on the cost , and , as with civil legislation , costs in parliamentary matters can in appropriate cases be taxed under the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act , 1847 , and the 1849 Act on similar lines for the House of Lords , the only difference in Scotland being that taxation is done by the Auditor of the Court of Session . |
| 19 | It may also be that the early returns from the voyages proved small , and that it was felt that investment in them did not provide an adequate reward for those involved . |
| 20 | But it may also be that in the bourgeois family the essential inegalitarianism on which capitalism rested found a necessary expression . |
| 21 | It may also be that where the tenant is a company an in-house surveyor may perform the role . |
| 22 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 23 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 24 | The result of such practice may often be that the actual operative working on site receives substantially less than an economic rate for individual tasks , with resultant bad feeling and possibly bad workmanship . |
| 25 | In 1944 it took courage to write so favourably about Pound ; and it may even be that Phyllis Bottome foresaw , and was trying to guard against , the peril that Pound would be in as soon as hostilities should be over . |
| 26 | It may even be that despite taking care with matching yourself to the job before making an initial application you may find out further information that will make you less enthusiastic about the job . |
| 27 | It may even be that the indiscriminacy of some of the air operations in the Second World War will come to be seen as something of a historical aberration , and a mere temporary consequence of the undeveloped state of the arts of target acquisition and guidance . |
| 28 | It may even be that some ingredients were added from outer space , brought by meteorites . |
| 29 | It may even be that the coupon helped to limit the size of the Unionist victory and to prolong the life of the Liberal Party . |
| 30 | Herbs to keep an eye on are the marjorams , of which there are at least three different kinds , tarragon ( two ) , dill and fennel , which hybridize very easily , garden mint which is often a cross with horse-mint , or may even be that species , lovage which can look like ground-elder while young , and French sorrel which is invariably confused with the inferior-tasting English sorrel . |