Example sentences of "may have [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard that Mr White may have lost control of the motorbike because of his guilt over the accident that killed his friend . |
| 2 | Training may have to take place at the principal 's manufacturing plant and such training should form a compulsory part of any agreement . |
| 3 | Television may have made inroads on the number of live spectators but , if anything , it has encouraged a greater degree of participation in a far wider range of activities . |
| 4 | London itself , however , may have furnished encouragement for the lines Eliot 's thought was taking . |
| 5 | The poor thing cant walk properly anymore and may have to wear nappies for the rest of its life . ’ |
| 6 | The lifting of a kettle lid by the steam from boiling water may have led Watt to the discovery of steam power . |
| 7 | A tract entitled The Manner of Passing Bills in Parliament , published in 1685 , may have formed part of the same work . |
| 8 | While this may have formed part of the rationale for the application of natural justice , the major reason for the development of the doctrine was the protection of property rights and interests akin thereto . |
| 9 | The eruption which probably had the most far reaching effect on civilization was that of Santorin ( Thera ) in the Aegean , in about 1470 B.C. This abruptly extinguished the highly-developed Minoan culture centred on Crete , and , because the eruption caused the submergence beneath the sea of a large part of the island of Santorin , it may have given rise to the age-old legends of Atlantis , the ‘ lost ’ or ‘ drowned ’ continent . |
| 10 | Some instinctive appreciation of this fact may have given rise to the mystique which surrounded £40 a year in contemporary culture . |
| 11 | When this happens , it is vital that the conflict be resolved and that broken or strained relationships which may have given rise to the problem be repaired . |
| 12 | This in turn may have given rise to the high temperature metamorphism and calc-alkaline intrusions of the southern part of the Scottish Highlands and their prolongation in Ireland . |
| 13 | The outcome in this patient suggests that the delay in diagnosis and hence starting effective antibiotic treatment may have given rise to the abnormality in both the humoral response and T cell function , which on this occasion may have contributed to the development of an associated extraintestinal lymphoma . |
| 14 | This is in order to try to avoid the effects of subrogation , viz where the insurer pays out money to the landlord under an insurance policy he will be subrogated to any rights the landlord may have against the tenant for breaches of covenant which may have given rise to the damage or destruction . |
| 15 | The names in lights will include Arnold Schwarzenegger in Carolco 's ‘ Terminator 2 ’ , which may have cost $90m by the time it hits the screen ; Kevin Costner as Robin Hood ; and Julia Roberts in ‘ Dying Young ’ , a Fox weepie . |
| 16 | In the first chapter we discussed the problems of the application backlog , where user departments may have to wait years for the implementation of systems . |
| 17 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 18 | Thus the anti-aristocratic debate , in so far as it was not a literary fashion , was a polemical weapon in a struggle within the nobility between the nobility nobility allow it trained golillas ( pen-men , usually of modest noble origin ) and the ‘ military ’ aristocracy , who may have regarded office as the reward of rank . |
| 19 | EMPLOYEES MAY have seen stories in the press recently about how much local government is going to cost but may not be aware the Council staff provided information which was quoted in the controversy . |
| 20 | Some of you may have seen leaflets about the knitting competition which is being run on behalf of the Stroke Association . |
| 21 | Windows and its applications are notorious for the creation of temporary files — if you 've ever crashed out of Windows you may have seen files with the extension . |
| 22 | Or perhaps Gloucester had simply discovered that Hastings ' distaste for Woodville authority would not , after all , extend to the deposition of Edward V. Mancini , as well as later sources , has references to Gloucester sounding out the loyalty of Hastings and others , and a clumsy enquiry may have alerted Hastings to the duke 's intentions as well as warning Gloucester that Hastings would not co-operate . |
| 23 | Or perhaps Gloucester had simply discovered that Hastings ' distaste for Woodville authority would not , after all , extend to the deposition of Edward V. Mancini , as well as later sources , has references to Gloucester sounding out the loyalty of Hastings and others , and a clumsy enquiry may have alerted Hastings to the duke 's intentions as well as warning Gloucester that Hastings would not co-operate . |
| 24 | The departure of a ‘ special ’ child may be particularly problematic because he or she may have invoked part of the parents ' own history , or because the child performed a vital role in the family such as ‘ go-between ’ or communicator . |
| 25 | Because had we had them any other way , you may have fallen into the dilemma as you 've suggested , that the shop stewards may have become part of the management . |
| 26 | They may have noted gaps in the company 's roster of artists which need to be filled . |
| 27 | We postulated that hypothermia may have reduced formation of the toxic reactive intermediates produced by metabolism of paracetamol , and so prevented the development of hepatitis in this high risk case . |
| 28 | There is no reason to believe that the incomers brought any large amount of capital with them , although some may have had help at the start from their families . |
| 29 | There are many places which may have had galleries in the past , but without reliable references , Deeds , an old painting or some remains of original woodwork they have not been included , tempting though this would have been . |
| 30 | As a secular leader , the king may have had charge of the army , although this may have been only a ceremonial role , since the tablets seem to tell us that there were generals . |