Example sentences of "may [adv] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 2 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 3 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 4 | The two books may thus have been peppered with little fictions , but no sharper or livelier pictures of Mughal Delhi , with all its scandals , dramas and intrigues , have come down to us . |
| 5 | Some of those homes may already have been hocked by granny to pay for care in her declining years ; and house prices may be depressed as inheritors who already own their homes sell those they inherit . |
| 6 | The rabbits you are after may already have been bolted by natural predators such as stoats , weasels , mink and pine martens . |
| 7 | We have no means of measuring the extent to which Anselm 's outlook may already have been changed by his experiences at the papal Curia , but there are two points at which we can observe an alteration in his language during and after his stay at Lyons . |
| 8 | ( Teachers used to living in subject blinkers are sometimes startled to find that films chosen as " starters " for topic work in their subject may already have been shown by another teacher in a different context . |
| 9 | He may already have been linked by this date with Earl Richard 's son , Gilbert , eighth Earl of Gloucester [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | The judicial statistics inevitably provide an incomplete picture since the only information available relates to matters where a writ has been issued and many disputes may already have been settled by then . |
| 11 | It is quite unlike the Trojan origin which may already have been attributed to the Franks as a result of imperial diplomacy , and suggests that the Merovingian dynasty did not come to the fore as a result of its connections with Rome . |
| 12 | After all , the European Community of the 12 may already have been overtaken by the events of the past 18 months . |
| 13 | Either Frederick became ill because of their privations , or he may already have been suffering from pneumonia , which was worsened by the hard journey . |
| 14 | Also , Edmund may already have been suffering from the illness , or possibly wound , of which he was soon to die . |
| 15 | For decades after , Walsall remained the famous name in giant-killing folklore , a kind of perverse tribute to Arsenal 's greatness , but with other , more recent , spectacular Cup exits , notably that of Leeds United at the hands of Colchester in 1971 , the Walsall ghost may finally have been laid to rest . |
| 16 | ( Though you have to remember that an ‘ unsuccessful ’ medium may just have been misused in previous attempts . ) |
| 17 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |
| 18 | In some ceremonies , an attendant , often male , tore a bough from the shrine-tree to the accompaniment of gestures of lamentation from the priestess and others present ; this over wrought scene , shown on several rings , seems to have symbolized the death of the young god and may conceivably have been followed by the sacrifice of the male attendant who represented him . |
| 19 | It was all a little like Rhodes ' secret society , which was to have ‘ members placed at our universities and our schools [ to ] watch the English youth passing through their hands ’ , and may conceivably have been influenced by it . |
| 20 | The rule may once have been justified by the fear that without it an accused might be tortured into production of documents but those days are surely past and this consideration can not apply in the context of a civil action . |
| 21 | The Thalidomide drug may once have been described as God 's gift to expectant mothers . |
| 22 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Bradwardine , died of the plague in August 1349 , but none of the chief officers of state succumbed , and amongst the titled nobility only the death of the Earl of Pembroke in August 1348 may possibly have been caused by the plague . |
| 23 | The Mercians may always have been ruled by more than one king , possibly several , before the mid-seventh century , and Bede certainly thought of Penda as king at the time of his attack on the eastern Angles in the late 630s ( HE 111 , 18 ) . |
| 24 | Like other powerful English rulers , he may also have been recognised as overlord by the Welsh and Scots , and possibly some of the Irish . |
| 25 | Strictly singulares were members of governors ' personal bodyguards , drawn from auxiliary regiments , but they may also have been employed for other duties . |
| 26 | Their anger and frustration may also have been fuelled by Outram 's highhanded dismissal of their protests , evident in her exchanges with Bradwell . |
| 27 | However , the emergence of this pattern may also have been related to the growth of higher education itself , and its increasing involvement in professional fields in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ; for it was the practice element which existed first , in the form of on-the-job training , and the preparatory theoretical elements which were added subsequently , as higher education became more and more involved . |
| 28 | The rhythmic spontaneous contractions in the upper oesophagus may also have been related to acid gastro-oesophageal reflux , because sometimes the contraction sequences were preceded by increased oesophageal baseline pressure ( due to a common cavity phenomenon or inadequate clearance of the swallowed bolus ) ; moreover half of the patients had signs of reflux oesophagitis . |
| 29 | Liver biopsy showed a predominantly T cell mononuclear cell infiltrate and although the possibility of lymphoma was raised it was considered that this may also have been caused by an inflammatory process . |
| 30 | The recently written Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , may also have been intended for performance there , but none is recorded . |