Example sentences of "[noun sg] may have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 2 | Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution . |
| 3 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 4 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 5 | Other businesses may obtain their terms from a trade association or similar organisation , in which case the association may have taken legal advice in the preparation of the terms . |
| 6 | ‘ It is possible the killer may have had local knowledge , ’ said Det Supt Cole . |
| 7 | Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship . |
| 8 | The high rate of diagnostic revision ( 25% ) based on this independent , blind histopathological review may have overdiagnosed definite Crohn 's disease but in many the final diagnosis was uncertain and labelled as indeterminate colitis . |
| 9 | The body politic may have undergone radical surgery and it may have aged considerably , but it has continued to endure . |
| 10 | But some of the alleged failures may turn out to be actual failures , and the Institute may have to take disciplinary action against the firms in question . |
| 11 | Though 21 of 52 ( 40% ) of these referrals were not made by participating general practitioners and a proportion may have constituted unnecessary duplication of care , most were referred appropriately as part of the shared care arrangements . |
| 12 | Changes in the transactions costs incurred on investment in the UK provide a second means by which financial deregulation may have influenced inward investment . |
| 13 | For example , the vendor may have used separate management companies within its group for owning properties , employing staff and maintaining insurance . |
| 14 | The project starts from the basic hypothesis that modernisation of agricultural and industrial regions was extremely uneven during the period of time here considered , and that this uneven development may have had important consequences for the development of the internal market for both agricultural and industrial products , even to some degree determining the structure and efficiency of production . |
| 15 | Furthermore , he was informed that the water may have had medicinal properties . |
| 16 | At least three pitched stone supports along the inside may have supported engaged pilasters or a bench . |
| 17 | However , a combination of zidovudine with interferon alpha may have increased beneficial effects in KS . |
| 18 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 19 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 20 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 21 | The student may have submitted written work or completed work sheets while on the ward , and these should be marked and returned . |
| 22 | Self-evidently these texts are strikingly different from original materials issued by the SI in the sense that they have the status of copyrighted property and have been funded by organisations which in the past may have supported progressive art but which do not sound like the champions of revolutionary causes . |
| 23 | New land-working agreements frequently had to be negotiated , and enclosure into small fields for peasant cultivation may have replaced open land and the strip system of some villages on the coastal plain . |
| 24 | Gillray may have formulated new images , and new arguments , to deal with the changed situation , but his novelty was not constructed from a sudden conversion . |
| 25 | The US Army may have dumped radioactive waste from nuclear bomb programmes in Love Canal , many years before it became the site for disposal of toxic chemicals by a commercial concern . |
| 26 | ‘ Defence sources in Britain say the man may have done incalculable damage to the NATO alliance before his exposure last week , ’ Loretta read . |
| 27 | Man may have reached coastal New Guinea as long ago as 50 000 BP and penetrated to the Highlands there by 26 000 BP . |
| 28 | It is also possible that cultural adaptations during this phase may have selected genetic bases for behaviour in ways that ensured the development of social strategies designed to ensure that individuals fitted well into the existing social structure . |
| 29 | Conclusions must be drawn carefully since the timing of the change may be coincidental , but it is tempting to conclude that the increased competitive pressures following liberalisation may have put small practices at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 30 | Two particular features of the system of office-holding may have eroded royal control . |