Example sentences of "may have [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 2 | At this stage you may also be in contact with the social services who may have been supporting the new client for some time . |
| 3 | Some fruit may have been given an artificial protective coating , so it 's best to wash them in warm soapy water and rinse them well before use . |
| 4 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 5 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 6 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 7 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 8 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 9 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 10 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 11 | But he may have been observing the traditional superstition that it is unlucky for the bridegroom to see the bride on the eve of her wedding . |
| 12 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 13 | Dr Jaeger may have been considered an eccentric , but the Rational Dress Society , which won so many adherents at the International Health Exhibition in 1884 , continued the battle on broader lines . |
| 14 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |