Example sentences of "may have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One main street , set roughly at right angles , ran north and south from it ; its northern arm , possibly Flavian in date , aimed at the southern end of the modern High Street where the south gate of the fortified centre was probably later established ; a slight shift towards the west in its alignment in the late second century may have coincided with the construction of the first defences . |
| 2 | Unsettled conditions among the western Saxons , therefore , may have prevailed in the aftermath of Caedwalla 's abdication . |
| 3 | At least , he may have begun in a monastery , but in the event he took orders and was for years a junior pastor somewhere in Worcestershire . |
| 4 | Later the patient recalled that her spells may have begun after a head injury in childhood . |
| 5 | Again , a company may have complained to the Commission that the conduct of a business competitor amounted to a breach of Article 85 or 86 . |
| 6 | Film critics may have disagreed on the merits of Batman Returns , but they did seem to reach a consensus on at least one thing . |
| 7 | Belief in the cyclical nature of the universe found its apotheosis in the concept of the Great Year , which the Greeks may have inherited from the Babylonians . |
| 8 | If the company had been solvent and considering a civil action against the Bank , it would not be allowed to take pretrial depositions from those who may have participated in the fraud . |
| 9 | A British historian writing in 1900 may have written under the influence of a glorious Empire , or ardent early socialism . |
| 10 | Yes , the missus did the child you may have noticed in the sitting-room at ‘ La Felicità ’ … |
| 11 | This would account for the singular lack of internal buildings , even though a civilian element may have remained among the population as the sharp distinction between fort and town became increasingly blurred in the fourth century . |
| 12 | They may have risen through the ranks of secretarial work or come from journalism . |
| 13 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 14 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 15 | ‘ He tells me he may have to go into a rest home . |
| 16 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 17 | ‘ I may have to go to a meeting . |
| 18 | Oh I think I may have to go to the toilet before I go home . |
| 19 | The restructuring borrower may have to go to the bank for more money to pay out other creditors , but these pay-outs themselves could be preferences , and thereby voidable , so selective payment of creditors can be dangerous . |
| 20 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed it may have increased as a result of the general tendency to centralize health , educational and welfare services and even shops in key villages or other local centres . |
| 22 | It is possible to speculate that John 's anger may have stemmed from the student turning his attention to the mother ; but whatever the explanation , John responded and reacted to the student . |
| 23 | At times the manager of nurses may have to object to the fact that the nursing consequences of such moves is unsupportable . |
| 24 | It is only the company itself which can take action against the auditors to remedy any damage which auditors ' negligence may have caused to the stakeholders . |
| 25 | We will need to disclose your report to our opponents , and so please include in a covering letter any comments you may have about any contribution our client may have made to the accident as these do not necessarily have to be disclosed . |
| 26 | For my part , I conclude that the life prisoner should be informed of the judge 's advice on tariff , together with any comments the judges , or either of them , may have made about the responsibility of the prisoner for the crime compared with that of any co-defendant tried with him . |
| 27 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 28 | They may have to turn to the courts for satisfaction . |
| 29 | They may have to turn to the courts for satisfaction . |
| 30 | Because had we had them any other way , you may have fallen into the dilemma as you 've suggested , that the shop stewards may have become part of the management . |