Example sentences of "may [adv] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Previous development may also have left old foundations , concrete slabs and basements which must be identified and quantified for additional cost . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He may also have had expensive tools or special equipment of some kind , or a car or boat which has to be sold . |
| 9 | This growth of biological and mechanical agricultural technology may also have benefited small farmers and the landless , but only incidentally . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some of the eurypterids may even have made tentative excursions on to the land . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | AIDS may well have taught gay men how to work with , as well as benefit from , the services of lesbians . |
| 18 | In the Seine and Loire valleys , for instance , the presence of Viking warbands over fairly long periods may well have stimulated local producers and sellers of horses and weapons and , above all , food and drink . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , this attitude was probably not entirely a matter of hubris since the Treasury may well have had genuine doubts as to the potential effectiveness of planning [ Brittan , 1971 ] . |
| 20 | I may well have had holistic tendencies for I am both an artist and a writer , but all that was subconscious . |
| 21 | The Declaration was , however , drafted at the end of January at Nuremberg and the curia may well have had advance knowledge of the text . |
| 22 | Edward I may well have had similar goals for England , Aquitaine and Ponthieu ( a clearer definition of feudal obligations , a shortening of the links in the tenurial chain and a more precise knowledge of the military service owed to him ) but the means by which those ends might be attained were very different . |
| 23 | They may well have had sexual intercourse regularly before the act in question and , because a sexual relationship may involve a degree of compromise , she may sometimes have agreed only with some reluctance to such intercourse . |
| 24 | The reason why marital rape of a cohabiting spouse is not considered to be unique and grave is that the couple may well have had sexual intercourse regularly before the act in question . |
| 25 | He may well have attracted public attention initially by excelling in hurley or Gaelic football , and have achieved some prominence as a county councillor . |
| 26 | Man may well have spent large portions of the last several million years living in small kin groups . |
| 27 | Erm , you may well have got different directories , for the different years . |
| 28 | As for the certificate system whereby a parish acknowledged its responsibility to relieve holders who became chargeable while working in other parishes , that may well have helped industrial employers for they received the labour while the risk of having to relieve in cases of unemployment or sickness was underwritten by the parish of settlement . |
| 29 | These labour directors may well have initiated enlightened personnel policies , but that is a long way from real worker representation in the overall direction of the firm : |
| 30 | First , they may simply have forced collusive agreements underground . |