Example sentences of "may have be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It may have been that its conflicts with the communists exaggerated its importance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Why this large size evolved is something of a mystery : it may have been that larger gliders cruise at slower speeds without ‘ stalling ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or , simply , it may have been that his feet were bad . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Or it may have been that the shares were not purchased but were subscribed for and were issued to the investors by Euramco . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Or , perhaps , it may have been that she had married him . |
| 18 | It may have been that Morse had smiled a little at the question . |
| 19 | It may have been that the Palaeoindians moving through America from |
| 20 | 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 . |