Example sentences of "may have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 2 | For remarkably little effort , you may have saved an endangered building . |
| 3 | TEATIME viewers to ITV 's results service last Saturday may have noticed a promising debut at the Sunderland-West Ham Cup tie . |
| 4 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
| 5 | In newly-published research , two American scientists claim the eruption of Toba in Sumatra 73,500 years ago — the largest in the last million years and five times bigger than Tambora — may have caused a global cooling of 3-5C . |
| 6 | Similarly , the increasing use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may have caused an increasing number of peptic ulcer cases in the older age groups . |
| 7 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 8 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 9 | The canonization of Becket may have made a lasting impression on the future pope Innocent , at the time a boy of twelve or thirteen . |
| 10 | The general may have made a false start , but his was a worthwhile beginning . |
| 11 | Cynics believe that the administration may have made a secret deal with Noriega , and some of the defence testimony seems to bear out this theory . |
| 12 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 13 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc , however , says it may have to do a Pentium-specific version of its Unix operating system . |
| 14 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 15 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 16 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 17 | Some well-informed people suggest that the Americans may have played a discreet role in last week 's cabinet reshuffle . |
| 18 | Mr Major may have played a clever hand over Scotland in the run-up to the election , and one which brought unexpected success . |
| 19 | Five thousand did so , and may have played a decisive part in turning a 5,060 Tory majority into a 580 Labour one . |
| 20 | The Council may have played a major role in planning the transfer of the Visigoths to Aquitaine . |
| 21 | It is evident that the larger and more popular temples may have played a considerable part in the economy of any province . |
| 22 | Roger may have played a significant part in raising funds for the enterprise . |
| 23 | Another is that it has survived this far only because of a remarkable social cohesiveness ( in which traditional fatalistic passivity may have played an important part ) . |
| 24 | The illicit trade in cattle may have played an important role in providing an economic base for certain upwardly-mobile Goyigama families . |
| 25 | A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate . |
| 26 | You or someone you look after may have suffered a recent bereavement . |
| 27 | The age range is usually 15–44 years , and the woman may have suffered a recent miscarriage or discovered she is infertile . |
| 28 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 29 | Your report ( 4 March ) regarding the proposed housing and golf course development at Archerfield , East Lothian , may have given a misleading impression of the current situation . |
| 30 | What happens next depends on the particular model : you may find that the machine goes automatically into record mode on switch-on , or you may have to press an additional button to ready it for recording . |