Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEATIME viewers to ITV 's results service last Saturday may have noticed a promising debut at the Sunderland-West Ham Cup tie . |
| 2 | In newly-published research , two American scientists claim the eruption of Toba in Sumatra 73,500 years ago — the largest in the last million years and five times bigger than Tambora — may have caused a global cooling of 3-5C . |
| 3 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 4 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 5 | The canonization of Becket may have made a lasting impression on the future pope Innocent , at the time a boy of twelve or thirteen . |
| 6 | The general may have made a false start , but his was a worthwhile beginning . |
| 7 | Cynics believe that the administration may have made a secret deal with Noriega , and some of the defence testimony seems to bear out this theory . |
| 8 | Some well-informed people suggest that the Americans may have played a discreet role in last week 's cabinet reshuffle . |
| 9 | Mr Major may have played a clever hand over Scotland in the run-up to the election , and one which brought unexpected success . |
| 10 | Five thousand did so , and may have played a decisive part in turning a 5,060 Tory majority into a 580 Labour one . |
| 11 | The Council may have played a major role in planning the transfer of the Visigoths to Aquitaine . |
| 12 | It is evident that the larger and more popular temples may have played a considerable part in the economy of any province . |
| 13 | Roger may have played a significant part in raising funds for the enterprise . |
| 14 | A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate . |
| 15 | You or someone you look after may have suffered a recent bereavement . |
| 16 | The age range is usually 15–44 years , and the woman may have suffered a recent miscarriage or discovered she is infertile . |
| 17 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 18 | Your report ( 4 March ) regarding the proposed housing and golf course development at Archerfield , East Lothian , may have given a misleading impression of the current situation . |
| 19 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 20 | Apart from the finds , these represent all that is left of the excavated site , and so are extremely important ; they also represent the investment in the excavation from a financial point of view , which may have cost a considerable amount of money , and it is therefore usual to duplicate them , storing one copy far away from the original records in case of accidents . |
| 21 | Make contact with the so-called " special clinic " ( department of genito-urinary medicine ) at your local hospital if you have any reason whatever to suspect that you may have contracted a venereal disease . |
| 22 | LATE-NIGHT revellers who may have seen a vicious assault have ignored police appeals to come forward . |
| 23 | Davies may have seen a close tussle between his two scrum halfs , but elsewhere in this gripping battle there was no question the Scarlets were the ones left blushing . |
| 24 | Now , if you were out and about at about ten o'clock last night you may have seen a greenish glow in the sky . |
| 25 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 26 | We may have discovered a statistical effect but do not understand how it operates ; the brute fact that people who have experienced unemployment are more rebellious in spirit does not itself explain why this occurs ( see diagram ) . |
| 27 | Changes in these practices were stimulated , in many if not all cases , by the need to respond to population pressure ; once again , the same problem may have invoked a different response in different cultural milieux . |
| 28 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 29 | There is no simple answer but I think he may have halted a destructive spiral . |
| 30 | Such patterns may have become a conventional part of the mosaicist 's repertory , indeed , the similarity of these mosaics to some in north-eastern England ( part IV ) suggests a widespread acceptance of these forms of decoration . |