Example sentences of "may [adv] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The perspective may not have developed antagonistic elements to the extent to which , at a generalised level , it could have been a genuine challenge to extant political power , but the populism did articulate working-class interests and demands assertively and independently . |
| 2 | This may or may not have involved departmental heads in planning induction sessions with year or house heads for in-coming pupils . |
| 3 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |
| 4 | A company doing business overseas may not have made proper allowances for the high cost of inducing people to work overseas . |
| 5 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 6 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 7 | More than one treaty is known to have been made with the Burgundians , although some may not have had imperial approval . |
| 8 | In the absence of such a general right many multilateral treaties have accession clauses to encourage wide participation ( especially from among States which may not have had treaty-making capacity at the time of the treaty 's conclusion ) . |
| 9 | Some parishes contained chapelries or chapels-of-ease , which may or may not have had independent rights to perform baptism , marriage and burial ceremonies . |
| 10 | Bolton may not have enjoyed outstanding success as an architect but he was greatly respected ; it was as a scholar that he excelled . |
| 11 | Among the western Saxons Ine may not have acquired royal power until the following year ; he abdicated in 726 and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List gives him a reign of thirty-seven years which implies an accession in 689 , not 688 . |
| 12 | The historian of these events believes that the CNAA may not have shown sufficient flexibility : ‘ if the same attitude as was adopted in the early 1970s by its new Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , had been taken , amalgamation might have occurred sooner ’ . |
| 13 | Interestingly 20 of 23 severe oesophagitis patients smoked or drank heavily and of those who claimed no such history one had scleroderma and another may not have disclosed full details . |
| 14 | However , the company 's activities may already have done irreversible damage to the park , which has been identified as the second most important in the world for bird life , with 10 per cent of all species . |
| 15 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 16 | In dismissing [ h ] -loss in the manner described , however , scholars may also have dismissed important evidence for the study of how linguistic changes are implemented and diffused . |
| 17 | Given that Mr Slade 's and Mr Kempton 's salaries were identical , the inspector formed the view that Mr Kempton may also have received undisclosed amounts from the company . |
| 18 | However , developments in computer technology ( eg microcomputers linked to a larger central computer or networked micros ) may also have made decentralised management control easier and cheaper . |
| 19 | Previous development may also have left old foundations , concrete slabs and basements which must be identified and quantified for additional cost . |
| 20 | Modern scientific medicine has of course dispensed with such speculative constructs , but thereby it may also have sacrificed therapeutic insights available to our renaissance predecessors . |
| 21 | He may also have had expensive tools or special equipment of some kind , or a car or boat which has to be sold . |
| 22 | This growth of biological and mechanical agricultural technology may also have benefited small farmers and the landless , but only incidentally . |
| 23 | Amongst Unitarian abolitionists an emotional quality in antislavery commitment was also present but it may often have had different origins from the antislavery of Evangelicals and Quakers . |
| 24 | Some of the eurypterids may even have made tentative excursions on to the land . |
| 25 | At the highest level of society there were the names given to the great tenants-in-chief who held their estates directly of the Conqueror , and it must be remembered that if these magnates were already powerful in their own country they may even have brought locative bynames with them , as was the case of William de Moyon already mentioned . |
| 26 | This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune . |
| 27 | In this case a driver may well have exercised due care and attention but the offence of driving without reasonable consideration may still be committed . |
| 28 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 29 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |
| 30 | AIDS may well have taught gay men how to work with , as well as benefit from , the services of lesbians . |