Example sentences of "may [adv] have been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 2 | Accordingly it would catch persons who may not have been customers of the plaintiff at the time when the defendant left his employment but who had become customers subsequently . |
| 3 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 4 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 5 | But these relationships may not have been partnerships in any of the senses that the word is used today . |
| 6 | Altogether I probably interviewed about five hundred persons ( members , parents , deprogrammers , anti-cultists , media etc ) , but not all these interviews were conducted in a systematic way — that is to say , they were with people with whom I happened to make contact , and may not have been representative of the Unification population as a whole . |
| 7 | Both Edmunds may also have been members of the Spectaclemakers ' Company . |
| 8 | They are interpreted as filling volcano-tectonic faults but may also have been feeders to Kuroko-style massive sulphide deposits , though these are likely to have been removed by erosion . |
| 9 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 10 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 11 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 12 | But there may well have been situations in which the boot was on the other foot ; and in the centuries before the tenth , the centuries in which slavery was steadily declining , there is no reason to suppose that land was scarce , or that the landlords normally had the whip-hand . |
| 13 | So far as the Gospels themselves are concerned , Jesus may indeed have been King of the Jews — and/or been so regarded . |
| 14 | Many explanations are possible , but there may again have been doubts about the accuracy of the text , sufficient to halt work temporarily . |
| 15 | To suggest that Jesus may actually have been King of the Jews , is not , therefore , to stand at variance with the evidence . |