Example sentences of "may [verb] been [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 2 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 3 | It is possible that some of the high recorded reflectance values from the East Midlands Platform and Cleveland High areas may have been enhanced by such effects . |
| 4 | In fact , I may have been lulled by that into an unwise bravado . |
| 5 | They hide in situations of complexity , in which effects may have been produced by several different causes acting together . |
| 6 | The answer to this puzzle may have been provided by some research carried out by American engineers on another large white mammal of very cold regions , the polar bear . |
| 7 | May own efforts at making custard , on what I think was called a Hydra Burner , may have been forgotten by those who subsequently had to eat the awful stuff , but I am not likely to forget the watery culinary disaster ! |
| 8 | The larger part at the front often opens directly onto the street , but may have been protected by some form of veranda . |
| 9 | The central tower at Wells , in its original form closely resembling the tower of Witney church , probably owed its design to Master Thomas , but may have been detailed by another hand ( R. K. Morris in a paper delivered to the British Archaeological Association 's conference in Exeter , 1986 ) . |