Example sentences of "[pron] may have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 2 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 3 | Confounding variables which may have affected urinary albumin excretion were similar within and between our two groups — that is , glycaemic control , weight , and protein intake ( as reflected by urinary urea excretion ) . |
| 4 | This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds . |
| 5 | Darlington police want to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious activity around the health authority offices at the estimated time of the incident . |
| 6 | Editor 's Note : I would welcome letters from any other juniors who may have experienced similar problems to Tom . |
| 7 | In the past many health authorities discriminated unfairly by not employing those who may have had domestic responsibilities . |
| 8 | You may have to organize different kinds of help in the home , if the patient has been doing tasks and housework . |
| 9 | As you may have noticed other debates have attracted rather more publicity this week , but the theme of our congress is jobs and recovery because jobs and recovery is the most important issue for our members and for Britain . |
| 10 | The reader may be familiar with aspects of the individualistic account sketched in Table 1.1 : in particular , you may have noticed similar explanations of poverty or industrial conflict in the press or on television . |
| 11 | You may have to give accurate instructions about how to assemble do-it-yourself furniture . |
| 12 | If your dog persists in misbehaving when the doorbell is rung , then you may have to take alternative action . |
| 13 | Note that if these DCs reference more than one module , you may have to create new DCs to perform the work in different packages . |
| 14 | In a good year you may have done unnecessary work ; in a bad one the harvest could be safe whilst others are still struggling with their expensive machinery . |
| 15 | If it is not in your library you may have to use inter-library loan , if this service is available to you . |
| 16 | You may have to use live Guppies and Goldfish before weaning onto dead foods . |
| 17 | With second-hand bricks you may have to accept variable quality . |
| 18 | When choosing this item bear in mind that you may have to walk long distances , so check the padding on the harnesses and straps for comfort . |
| 19 | This may be a matter for personal negotiation between yourself , your flatmates , friends , family and so on , and you may have to forego other pursuits for a while in order to establish a good study habit . |
| 20 | For example , you may have to make special provision for Christmas week or holidays . |
| 21 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 22 | You must follow these to the letter or you may have to pay private charges . |
| 23 | Likewise , you may have to pay other people to do some of the jobs , such as the decorating , that you previously managed yourself . |
| 24 | Having support of close friends , family and workmates can be really important , but you may have to consider negative reactions . |
| 25 | The first comment may mean that the child has no experience of seeing rusted metal , or she may have seen rusty objects but not connected them in any way with exposure to air and moisture . |
| 26 | She may have had other reasons . |
| 27 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 28 | Right , if we want to increase the long run output we may have to reduce short run output . |
| 29 | Some fairways are so narrow , we may have to walk single file , ’ joked one young American visitor on the eve of this 22 nation classic . |
| 30 | If it turns out that this is not the case , if it is discovered that the prohibition denies the would-be rapists more of a chance to pursue the good life than it gives their possible victims , then one may have to adjust other features of the political framework to make sure that this does not result in inequality of ability to pursue one 's conception of the good . |