Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 2 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 3 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 4 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 5 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 6 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 7 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 8 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |