Example sentences of "may [vb infin] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem that you may meet is that on some boards , the Dabs board is one , both processor and coprocessor sockets are identical . |
| 2 | What may happen is that the returning reflected stress waves repeatedly meet the outgoing ones at some critical or unlucky point and thus the stress may pile up at this point until fracture occurs . |
| 3 | It may have been that the editor did n't know how to cut a scene , or that the financiers called in a hack to re-edit the picture . |
| 4 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 5 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |
| 6 | It may have been that its conflicts with the communists exaggerated its importance . |
| 7 | It may have been that Harvey enjoyed such seniority in the Church that in his case such deviation was permitted , but given that two or three other committed Free Presbyterians have been active in the Official Unionist Party ( in 1985 there were two Free Presbyterians in local government as Official Unionist councillors ) , it is more likely that the Church leadership was genuinely able to maintain some distance from Paisley 's politics . |
| 8 | It follows , then , that an evolutionary argument must attempt to establish exactly what the continuity may have been that led from the level of the higher animals to that of Man . |
| 9 | Why this large size evolved is something of a mystery : it may have been that larger gliders cruise at slower speeds without ‘ stalling ’ . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that the reason for this choice may have been that the longer of the two annual intervals between successive zenith-transits of the sun in the neighbourhood of Copan ( one of the most important Maya cities ) at latitude 15 degrees north is 260 days . |
| 11 | The reason why Hope should advocate Scott in particular , when a limited competition might give the ecclesiologically sounder Street the work , may have been that Scott was more likely to carry out the work successfully . |
| 12 | Or , simply , it may have been that his feet were bad . |
| 13 | Often in such circumstances , it may have been that the dog was teased in the past , by a stranger who encouraged it to bark by tapping repeatedly on the window , for example . |
| 14 | One reason for this may have been the conventional wisdom that secularisation had made the subject well nigh irrelevant , another reason may have been that there are few areas in which the methodological problems are as acute as they are in the investigation of people 's beliefs and/or the assessment of the effect that these have upon the rest of society . |
| 15 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 16 | Or it may have been that the shares were not purchased but were subscribed for and were issued to the investors by Euramco . |
| 17 | It may have been that writers felt that every variation in their particular game had been played , but recognised that a public appetite for detection had been created and would repay feeding . |
| 18 | Finally , it may have been that before the Pleistocene , with its powerful glacial and periglacial denudation , the amount of gravel transferred to the sea by the rivers was much less , so that there was far less material from which the sea could build beaches . |
| 19 | Or , perhaps , it may have been that she had married him . |
| 20 | It may have been that Morse had smiled a little at the question . |
| 21 | It may have been that the Palaeoindians moving through America from |
| 22 | I , I think erm I think it may have been that er you , they assumed you 're lacking confidence because you were laughing at yourself so much when you were asking the questions . |
| 23 | The first point we may note is that the coefficient of variation of lifetime consumption is ( where finite ) an increasing function of the extent of inheritance . |
| 24 | One problem which such an approach may pose is that there may be nothing left for special treatment . |