Example sentences of "[noun sg] may have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Black Prince may have been an unforeseen bonus . |
| 2 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 3 | He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day . |
| 4 | The result may have been a conflicting programme for pupils . |
| 5 | The decision to split the test may have been a political one . |
| 6 | Johnny Marr 's guitar work may have been a stable basis of listenability but it was Morrissey 's release from years of repressed loser attitudes which made The Smiths so special . |
| 7 | The absence of such courtesies during a two hour meeting suggests that the purpose of the meeting may have been the initial ‘ interrogation ’ in an accounts investigation . |
| 8 | Or the vendor may have been the second defendant , also called Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on 23 September 1988 and to which company all the assets of the U.K. Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. had , following an agreement of 26 October 1988 , been transferred . |
| 9 | Some of these were obsolete , but one has been identified as belonging to a Babylonian king , the twentieth of the Kassite dynasty , who reigned from 1381 to 1354 B.C. The suggestion has been made that the string may have been a royal gift . |
| 10 | Police believe the weapon may have been a standard cartridge shotgun , specially adapted to fire bullets . |
| 11 | Mallard may have been the fastest steam train in the world , but how many mothers must have complained about the journey ? |
| 12 | Good works sold both above and below estimate or did not sell at all , and the determining factor may have been a lone telephone bidder working against the reserve . |
| 13 | Aesthetic appearance , rarity and durability may have been the physical attributes which led particular substances to be categorized as precious , but it was the fact of being recognized as such which made them effective as symbols . |
| 14 | So , as the internal JCS ( Joint Chiefs of Staff ) history suggests , the decision to help France combat the Vietminh may have been the logical outgrowth of a reassessment of US interests in Asia as a whole ; and yet the particular origins of the US aid programme suggest something less systematic . |
| 15 | At times taxation may have been a significant factor , either because the barbarians were simply allocated revenue , or , as in the case misrecorded by Fredegar , because Romans gained tax exemption as a result of conceding land to the barbarians . |
| 16 | ‘ We suspect another man who works in that area may have been the intended target but the UFF got the location wrong . |
| 17 | Financial control may have been a vital weapon . |
| 18 | He believed now , though this belief may have been a mythic smoothing of his memory , that Val was the first person his undergraduate self had spoken to , socially that was , not officially . |
| 19 | Global warming may have been a contributory factor in the outbreak of a malaria epidemic in the highlands of Madagascar in 1988 which killed 25,000 people . |
| 20 | However , the runner-up may have been an unlucky loser as it was later discovered that he had raced with a injured heel . |
| 21 | These close contacts in urban working-class life may have been a twentieth-century creation of local authority tenure ( Anderson 1983 ) . |
| 22 | Mellor 's office in life may have been the big attraction , but it also got in the way of a good time . |
| 23 | That style may have been the only way round a corner in the days of slippy tyres , dodgy suspension and flexible chassis but modern GP machines permit a faster , more aggressive route through the turn . |
| 24 | The Pressurized Water Reactor may have been a new type of reactor to Britain , but it was , and has remained , the brand leader in most other nuclear nations . |
| 25 | The American tradition of the fine photographic print may have been an irresistible provocation — but there were plenty of precedents available for the kind of work the Starn Twins wanted to do ( notably the expansively scored and painted photographic base used by Anselm Kiefer ; Julian Schnabel 's broken plates ) . |
| 26 | Frenchman Clement Ader 's bird-winged Eole may have been the first aircraft to take off under its own power ( a 20 hp steam engine ) in 1890 , but never really flew , lacking natural stability and any control system — though Ader did invent what is still the French word for an aeroplane : avion . |
| 27 | That contentious lesbian lesson may have been a well-meant attempt to broaden minds , but I 'd like to bet that the main result was a room full of scarlet faces . |
| 28 | Left hemisphere control of sequential motor activity which lent itself readily to a symbolic gestural system may have been the evolutionary precursor to present day lateralisation of language . |
| 29 | The patients ' symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction may well have been due to benign prostatic hypertrophy and the coexistent prostatic cancer may have been an incidental finding . |
| 30 | Some may say yes and some may say no and it will have all the appearance of a decision being made , but the real structure may have been no more than the bland question/answer relationship between the teacher-in-role and the class . |