Example sentences of "they may have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since his privateering interests encouraged him to favour the continuance of war , they may have balanced the pension from Spain in forming his attitude to the peace negotiations .
2 They may have to ask the Hong Kong Union for financial assistance in order to summon a replacement from home .
3 Erm I do n't know if if I 'm right in saying , but I think they may have given a tip to other people like er the chore boy , there used to be a chore boy .
4 The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves .
5 They may have sacked the Chancellor but they 're still committed to capitalism and economic policy which is diametrically opposed to any form of such a justice .
6 They may have felt a degree of excitement as they turned their cameras on a train arriving at a station , waves crashing on the beach , or a group of workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory , but these early pieces of reportage were seen as nothing more than ‘ animated photographs ’ , a further step in the development of photography .
7 Yet they may have made no effort to give her anywhere she can go to , having allocated a large bedroom to one of their small children and relegated her to the tiniest bedroom in the house , to which she can never withdraw unless she actually gets into bed .
8 They realize they may have missed an event .
9 He may well have been scorned , he may well have lost his job bad word may have got back to Rome , they may have sent the telegrams back to Caesar telling him all about Pilate , but it was n't sufficient reason for him rejecting Christ .
10 That is still the government 's public view , but it is understood that privately ministers have conceded they may have to change the law in three or four years .
11 They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom .
12 They were sometimes the heads of administrative units known as hundreds — hundredal manors with some of the characteristics of a town , and they may have had the minster church , upon which the churches elsewhere on the estate were dependent .
13 So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on .
14 But they may have to face the fact that their own view of his department 's policy needs are irrelevant to the main problem being tackled within it , or even that their own commitments lead in quite opposite directions to the ones being taken by those concerned with policy innovation in the department .
15 Er , if they say that er , they should be er , a balance or reserve put in by constituent authorities then we will have the money available to do that , if we did n't then they may have frozen the reserves that are already there and asked us to put some more money in as well .
16 They may have got a number one , but it cost them !
17 I 'd written to them , and I feel they may have got the letter in time . ’
18 Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major .
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