Example sentences of "[pron] may have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , together with an appreciation of the steeper slopes , soil erosion and the local changes in level and aspect , make for a finer assessment of the subtler aspects which may have been of great significance to the original selector 's choice of site for the particular settlement under study . |
| 2 | But most importantly , no information was given on the location of recurrence of the disease which may have been of prognostic importance . |
| 3 | The third wing , which united the other two , possessed heated rooms which may have been in common use . |
| 4 | However much ignorant opposition there may have been at first to women taking part in public life , there are comparatively few cooperative men or women who would now oppose women being poor law guardians or members of educational communities . |
| 5 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 6 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 7 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 8 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 9 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 10 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 11 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 12 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 13 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 14 | One must appreciate that with the passing of time all things progress ; what may have been of considerable interest to one generation may not be to the next . |