Example sentences of "may [adv] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first they saw of the village may thus have been the dilapidated thatched cottage called Gilberts or Gilbards , which , improbable as it would have seemed to Coleridge in the fever of Pantisocracy , was to have so important a place in his later history . |
| 2 | In North Worcestershire also industrial growth made little or no visible impact on the structure of wealth , possibly because a man 's position in the rural hierarchy determined his choice of trade , In Yardley tile making had evolved as a major activity early in the fifteenth century ; along with tanning , which may still have been the principal industry in nearby Birmingham , it was practised by farmer-craftsmen , who mostly had well under £20 in goods , the £3 — £9 range forming a good two-thirds of the list : Thomas Walton , whose £11 was the highest assessment , made tiles and practised cooperage in winter . |
| 3 | Another significant factor working in the same direction towards decentralised negotiations in many European countries may also have been the increased importance of foreign-owned firms , particularly US multinationals ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 4 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 5 | Triton , the largest satellite of Neptune , goes round the planet in the opposite direction to Neptune 's other moons , and may originally have been a small planet in its own right which was captured by Neptune 's gravity . |
| 6 | Churchmen must always have been aware of family loyalties , and when these became involved in politics there may often have been a strong temptation to give active support . |
| 7 | There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked : |
| 8 | In the last decade , as we have seen , conventional retail credit has kept more or less in line with changes in the volume of consumer spending ; there may even have been a slight decline . |
| 9 | There may even have been a whole series of such usurpations , but the original replication process must have been sufficiently simple to have come about through what I have dubbed ‘ single-step selection ’ . |
| 10 | From its size , the knife must have had a very specific use and may even have been a surgical instrument . |
| 11 | This may well have been a contributory factor in the prevalence of death in child-birth . |
| 12 | Poseidon 's power was at this early time far greater than that of Velchanos : he received large-scale sacrificial offerings at Pylos , and may well have been a major deity on Minoan Crete too . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Meyer 's stalking-horse challenge in 1989 may well have been a necessary prerequisite for the substantive challenge in 1990 because it broke the psychological barrier against mounting a challenge when the party was in office . |
| 14 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 15 | As we have already noted , he may well have been a militant nationalist who did not shrink from violence . |
| 16 | The support of 90% of blacks for Carter , even though he was a white Southerner , may well have been the crucial factor in his victory . |
| 17 | Now I know it was likely the alcohol was causing his depression and may well have been the major influence on the poor family relationships involved . |
| 18 | There could be no doubt that the Burgundian was the leading ruler in Gaul between 511 and 516 , and he may well have been the barbarian king most favoured by the court of Constantinople . |
| 19 | It is almost certain that both forms of the disease were present in late-fourteenth-century England , and it may well have been the pneumonic form , the more lethal of the two , which was responsible for the scale of the mortality in 1348–49 ( 53 , pp.172–3 ) . |
| 20 | A striking record of Elizabethan Christmas anthems by Red Byrd and the Rose Consort of Viols explores what may well have been the raw sonorities of Tudor vocal timbre ( Amon Ra CD-SAR 46 ) . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement . |
| 22 | This may indeed have been an underlying cause of the revival of Baldwin 's own fortunes . |
| 23 | Sex may therefore have been a necessary prelude to the evolution of multicellular organisms . |