Example sentences of "[noun pl] may have [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 1.27 In any case involving serious and lasting injury , the plaintiff 's solicitors may have to instruct an accountant to calculate past and future pecuniary loss .
2 And , to mix a metaphor , France 's lame ducks may have become an albatross around his neck .
3 The pair produced two eggs in their eyrie in Haweswater , Cumbria , but experts fear twitchers may have breached an exclusion zone set up by the RSPB .
4 Spokesman Andrew Davis said : ‘ We believe freak weather conditions may have caused an inversion , but it is difficult to be certain at this stage .
5 Some patients may have recorded an episode of faecal incontinence as a bowel movement , before the beginning of retraining .
6 There is a suggestion that S & N directors were unhappy with the standard of diesel cars for senior executives , and the fact there are no diesel Jaguars may have had an influence .
7 Drugs may have had an effect .
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