Example sentences of "[noun sg] may have been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The division may have been the only way that Chlothild was able to ensure that part of Clovis 's realm passed to her offspring . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mallard may have been the fastest steam train in the world , but how many mothers must have complained about the journey ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We suspect another man who works in that area may have been the intended target but the UFF got the location wrong . |
| 9 | Mellor 's office in life may have been the big attraction , but it also got in the way of a good time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This may in fact may have been the prime interest of most of those gathered at Enham , who seem to have been attending something very like a French peace meeting . |