Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This former hot-spring activity at high elevations on the volcanoes could indicate that the region was more geothermally active in the past ; the activity may have declined as a result of waning heat sources . |
| 3 | ‘ Northern Ireland may have faded as a football force since the break-up of the 1986 World Cup finals side — and the rebuilding process has been painful . |
| 4 | Explain the reasons for any misunderstandings which may have arisen as a result of the management 's proposal . |
| 5 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 6 | For each live animal you see in the pet shop many others may have died as a result of capture |
| 7 | Two of her books were educational , suggesting that she may have worked as a teacher . |
| 8 | The changes we observed may have occurred as a result of an increased absorption of secondary bile acids , previously shown in patients with large and severely dysplastic polyps . |
| 9 | Their heavy armour-plating may have originated as a way of disposing of the salts derived from their food which accumulated in their bodies . |
| 10 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 11 | It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ . |
| 12 | The honour may have come as a surprise to some , but England 's second city has never played second fiddle in the music business , spawning such performers as The Moody Blues , The Spencer Davis group , Black Sabbath , ELO , Duran Duran and UB40 . |
| 13 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |
| 14 | The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection . |