Example sentences of "[num] may have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 2 | A prime motive in the purchase of the Grand Union by the Grand Junction in 1894 may have been the improved water supply for the main system which it represented . |
| 3 | Previous popes had been in France , and the teaching of the school of St Victor in Paris and of Peter Abelard was known to them , but Innocent III may have been the first pope to have studied at the Paris schools . |
| 4 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
| 5 | One of the features of the years 765–85 may have been a closer involvement on Offa 's part with the kingdom of the East Angles . |