Example sentences of "[noun] may have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 2 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 3 | If so , Cnut 's attack on Ely may have been after 1016 . |
| 4 | However widespread such an attitude may have been in popular piety ( and perhaps it has been widespread ) , and though it may be thinkable to a Latin American theologian today , it is hardly orthodox . |
| 5 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 6 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 7 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 8 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 9 | Braque may have been at first bewildered by the Demoiselles d'Avignon , but he nevertheless responded to its stimulus , most immediately perhaps in the pen and ink drawing of three nudes published in 1910 as La Femme : the central figure , seated on her haunches , is a clear reference to the squatting Demoiselle , although the composition as a whole curiously anticipates that of Picasso 's Three Women . |
| 10 | But Presley points out : ‘ With the discovery that a membrane bone can totally mimic a basic cartilaginous constituent of the developing skull , we have to ask ourselves how widespread such a phenomenon may have been in vertebrate evolution . ’ |
| 11 | I have been most concerned by reports that some students may have been in temporary difficulty at the start of the current term because their grant cheques have not arrived from certain authorities . |
| 12 | Their interest may have been in Sardinian copper or Etruscan tin ; the Minoans needed tin to make bronze , and the sources of their raw materials are unknown . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems the continental disease may have been in this country for some time , ’ Dr Tapper says , ‘ but we do n't believe hare populations are in serious danger . ’ |
| 14 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
| 15 | But press officer for Jet , John Maple , who belongs to the same union as Mr Keeping , says that there are statutory reasons why this morning 's protest may have been in vain . |