Example sentences of "[adj] may have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 2 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 3 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 4 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 5 | This may have masked further treatment benefits of NIPPV . |
| 6 | It also seems probable that cells from inflamed epithelium ( colitis ) will be more prone to toxicity from cytokines than will cells from control tissue and this may have introduced artefactual abnormalities in dispersed colitic cells . |
| 7 | Jenner wondered if the unanaesthetised de-clawing may have had some effect on this , and he offered the theory that an alternative source of pain might cause a distraction from the tail-crushing effects of caudate stimulation . |
| 8 | The few references and scraps of information we have about the very early recruits suggests that these may have included more girls of middle-class origin and certainly some from orphanages and boarding-schools — girls sometimes from middle-class families fallen on hard times . |
| 9 | All may have emulated some actions of previous British governments . |
| 10 | A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades . |
| 11 | For example , in the various stages of pre-trial procedure the party who is ultimately successful may have caused undue delay or not followed the proper procedure and been penalised at that time by the award of costs against him or her in respect of a particular hearing . |
| 12 | In London and Birmingham particularly , regional policy since 1945 may have hastened this decentralization of industry as industrial-development certificates were required from central government before larger manufacturing developments could be implemented . |
| 13 | The events in Beijing during early June 1989 may have changed this situation in a number of important ways , as will be discussed in the final chapter . |
| 14 | Though the two may have isolated similar problems , the political and intellectual context of their work was by no means the same . |
| 15 | Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership . |