Example sentences of "[Wh det] may have been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further explanation could be that rats have a small ductular component of bile secretion which may have been the primary target of the observed response , as evidenced by the increase in biliary bicarbonate output observed in the canine studies . |
| 2 | Whatever may have been the original rationale of this form of liability , it was certainly not the same as that of scienter , for agricultural animals present no peculiar risk . |
| 3 | However , as I have said , by the time the case was before us W. 's condition had changed so drastically that , whatever may have been the previous position , the court would have been in dereliction of its duty had it not overridden W. 's wishes and effectively confirmed the order made by Thorpe J. that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit . |
| 4 | Although , as we shall see , many varied and lengthy accounts of what may have been the distinguishing characteristics of the fabliaux have been produced , the short definition given by Bédier in 1893 still attracts support : the fabliaux , he declared , are " " contes à rire en vers " " . |
| 5 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |