Example sentences of "may be [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it took so long for Dobson finally to take over in Macclesfield , it may be either that he returned to Stockport as Master from some period or that the Goldsmiths forgot that they had appointed Escolmbe , or that Escolmbe himself never took up his duties . |
| 2 | It may be however that this will be your first contact with us . |
| 3 | That seems unusual , but it may be just that the home warren attracted more elil than other places . |
| 4 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |
| 5 | We have already seen that failure satisfactorily to surmount the Oedipus complex results in pre-Oedipal fixations , notably at the anal and oral stages , and it may be here that we can find the primitive , rudimentary superego elements which can , and indeed must , remain when the mature superego does not develop . |
| 6 | It may be simply that no document has survived in which Aethelberht was required to acknowledge Aethelbald as his overlord , but so far as can be seen there was no restriction on the power of the Kentish king to grant land to whomsoever he wished . |
| 7 | This may be entirely proper for the evolution of knowledge in a particular field ; or it may be simply that the researcher has developed a tunnel vision , and is unable to see beyond a very narrow focus . |
| 8 | In political terms , the worry in carrying out free market reform may be less that the reform fails than that it might succeed . |
| 9 | It is very important that all of us learn what our individual specific response to stress may be so that we might learn to respond to this signal early on . |