Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 2 | As you may have noticed other debates have attracted rather more publicity this week , but the theme of our congress is jobs and recovery because jobs and recovery is the most important issue for our members and for Britain . |
| 3 | The reader may be familiar with aspects of the individualistic account sketched in Table 1.1 : in particular , you may have noticed similar explanations of poverty or industrial conflict in the press or on television . |
| 4 | In a good year you may have done unnecessary work ; in a bad one the harvest could be safe whilst others are still struggling with their expensive machinery . |
| 5 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 6 | The first comment may mean that the child has no experience of seeing rusted metal , or she may have seen rusty objects but not connected them in any way with exposure to air and moisture . |
| 7 | She may have had other reasons . |
| 8 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 9 | The ability to learn such social skills may come slowly , but can in most cases be taught so that the child learns to behave in a socially acceptable fashion even though they may have limited academic ability . |
| 10 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 11 | One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour . |
| 12 | Their spouses may not have been able to save much during their lives ; they may have had low-paid jobs . |
| 13 | by no means all the composers were Protestants ; Senfl , Arnold von Bruck , Mahu , and Hellinck were not , although they may have had secret leanings to Protestantism ; but Rhaw also published Latin church music , while Catholics all over Europe enjoyed vernacular Calvinist psalms . |
| 14 | Users in this group were not known to be taking any drug other than cannabis ( though , like any drug user , they may have taken other drugs without official knowledge of this ) . |
| 15 | ‘ He felt that if he went there it may have generated extra publicity through TV and radio interviews which might do some good in tracing the girls , ’ said Simon . |
| 16 | It may have damaged rubber seals on the equipment , rendering them unsafe . |
| 17 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 18 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 19 | For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated . |
| 20 | More importantly , it may have cooled Eastern Canada by 10-15C , triggering off the massive movement of Ice across the Earth . |
| 21 | The actual reasons for the popularity ( albeit relatively short-lived ) of the high-rise phase are many : it was architecturally fashionable ; it may have suited municipal prestige ; it answered immediate problems of increasing density as the big cities ran out of building land within their own boundaries ; and it met the spurious argument about saving agricultural land ( mounted by the farming lobby and the Conservative-dominated shire counties ) . |
| 22 | Gundobad fled to Avignon , where he may have received Visigothic support . |
| 23 | Accordingly , it is not clear what rights are accepted by the transferee ; he may have accepted non-existing rights relying upon fraudulent information in a receipt message transmitted to him by someone pretending to be the carrier . |
| 24 | Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 26 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |