Example sentences of "may have been [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get to 50°C energy may have been transferred to the system-assuming that it was previously at a lower temperature . |
| 2 | It is thought that the work may have been presented to the Queen by her Privy Councillor and Ambassador , Sir James Melville ( whose signature appears on the title-page ) , perhaps following a visit he made to Italy . |
| 3 | It may have been presented to the Queen in order to show her something of the impact that Protestantism had made in Italy . |
| 4 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 5 | Normally , any limiting adjustment which may have been made to the amount of positive pitch available will be overridden by this control . |
| 6 | Souness may have been banished to the stands , but it did not stop his side from assaulting the Russian goal as early as the second minute when Don Hutchison drove Steve McManaman 's cross over . |
| 7 | The apparent lack of benefit of early angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor treatment in the CONSENSUS II trial may have been related to the design or to theoretical issues . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the group did not define fetal distress , and the increased incidence may have been related to the higher rate of meconium staining of the amniotic fluid in spontaneous labours , which is to be expected at a later gestation . |
| 9 | Most often , though , lamas were stylistically portrayed as winged hybrid creatures and may have been linked to the later goddess-spirit who presided over the home and heart , Lamaria . |
| 10 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 11 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 12 | It can not therefore have failed to become an important centre in its own right after the administrative changes introduced in the fourth century and it may have been promoted to the rank of civitas capital , although there is no evidence for the civitas over which it would have ruled . |
| 13 | As the royal separation was announced , Camilla may have been glued to the TV in the fusty drawing-room of 18th-century Middlewick House in Corsham . |
| 14 | This was mainly due to demobilization , but others may have been attracted to the region due to the fact that through the expropriation of landowners , the area held by peasants had gone up by 65 per cent since 1917 . |
| 15 | Detectives believe the victim may have been attracted to the area by the arrival of foreign ships . |
| 16 | Only part of the duplicated region may have been transposed to the other chromosome arm . |
| 17 | It can be speculated that the informants recruited in Operation Ward may have been known to the IRA for months or even years . |
| 18 | After the ( assumed ) conquest of Crete by the Myceneans , large quantities of Minoan artworks may have been transported to the mainland . |
| 19 | Precise figures for this trend are difficuIt to obtain , but one estimate suggests that around 300 000 jobs may have been added to the service sector in the first half of the 1980s ( Rajan , 1987 ) . |