Example sentences of "[noun] may have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Black Prince may have been an unforeseen bonus . |
| 2 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 3 | Bram Stoker may have been a genial enough fellow externally , but he knew how to find a place which would match the chill in the soul of his novel . |
| 4 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 5 | In the first place , although non-convertible bank notes may have been a new element , many — perhaps most — commercial transactions had long depended on paper bills rather than value-for-weight coin . |
| 6 | Brampton may have been a quiet man but I can not imagine him allowing anyone to hustle him upstairs in a house full of people , tie a noose round his neck and hang him . |
| 7 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 8 | He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day . |
| 9 | Malcolm Scott may have been the only footballer/cricketer at Feethams , but MI lists nine more who played against the Quakers . |
| 10 | The result may have been a conflicting programme for pupils . |
| 11 | Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music . |
| 12 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 13 | The decision to split the test may have been a political one . |
| 14 | Johnny Marr 's guitar work may have been a stable basis of listenability but it was Morrissey 's release from years of repressed loser attitudes which made The Smiths so special . |
| 15 | Barny may have been a natural for breeding , but he was useless at actually rearing his offspring . |
| 16 | Scotland may have been a remote country . |
| 17 | The absence of such courtesies during a two hour meeting suggests that the purpose of the meeting may have been the initial ‘ interrogation ’ in an accounts investigation . |
| 18 | Or the vendor may have been the second defendant , also called Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on 23 September 1988 and to which company all the assets of the U.K. Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. had , following an agreement of 26 October 1988 , been transferred . |
| 19 | Some of these were obsolete , but one has been identified as belonging to a Babylonian king , the twentieth of the Kassite dynasty , who reigned from 1381 to 1354 B.C. The suggestion has been made that the string may have been a royal gift . |
| 20 | John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people . |
| 21 | Police believe the weapon may have been a standard cartridge shotgun , specially adapted to fire bullets . |
| 22 | Mallard may have been the fastest steam train in the world , but how many mothers must have complained about the journey ? |
| 23 | Good works sold both above and below estimate or did not sell at all , and the determining factor may have been a lone telephone bidder working against the reserve . |
| 24 | Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols . |
| 25 | So , as the internal JCS ( Joint Chiefs of Staff ) history suggests , the decision to help France combat the Vietminh may have been the logical outgrowth of a reassessment of US interests in Asia as a whole ; and yet the particular origins of the US aid programme suggest something less systematic . |
| 26 | ‘ Jesus may have been the first man who understood the power of some actions . |
| 27 | At times taxation may have been a significant factor , either because the barbarians were simply allocated revenue , or , as in the case misrecorded by Fredegar , because Romans gained tax exemption as a result of conceding land to the barbarians . |
| 28 | ‘ We suspect another man who works in that area may have been the intended target but the UFF got the location wrong . |
| 29 | Financial control may have been a vital weapon . |
| 30 | He believed now , though this belief may have been a mythic smoothing of his memory , that Val was the first person his undergraduate self had spoken to , socially that was , not officially . |