Example sentences of "he may have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have been a character in Kilburn 's past , but a folklorist , N A Hudleston , suggested he was Grim , otherwise the Norse god Odin . |
| 2 | He may have been a Londoner , brought up in the Newcastle coal trade . |
| 3 | ‘ He may have been a fool , but I do n't think that was an accident . ’ |
| 4 | He may have been a time-server as his attitude about the Pole Nicolaus Copernicus suggests . |
| 5 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 6 | He may have been a manager or even an owner before becoming a business valuer . |
| 7 | He may have been a fellow of Merton College , Oxford , c .1270 , and was certainly a member of the Dominican convent in Oxford , perhaps by c .1282 . |
| 8 | He may have been the second , or a younger , son . |
| 9 | He may have been the author of a memorandum written between 1289 and 1307 concerning plans for a new crusade . |
| 10 | His predominant mode , in the Clarendon Building and All Souls designs and at Queen 's , as well as in other works , such as the Christ Church buttery ( 1722 ) and his Durham quadrangle range at Trinity College ( 1728 ) , was a simplified version of the baroque of Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh [ q.v. ] ; but the fellows ' building at Corpus Christi College , of which he may have been the designer as well as the builder , was close to the proto-Palladian manner of the Peckwater quadrangle , while his Radcliffe quadrangle at University College ( 1717–19 ) — again devised under Clarke 's direction — and his additions at Oriel College ( 1719–20 ) were faithful copies of the traditional Jacobean style of the adjoining buildings , the former including a skilfully executed Gothic vault . |