Example sentences of "may have [be] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There may have been no danger to you . |
| 2 | He may have been a character in Kilburn 's past , but a folklorist , N A Hudleston , suggested he was Grim , otherwise the Norse god Odin . |
| 3 | ‘ This may have been a mixture of excitement , curiosity and immaturity — and the payment of money by the accused may have had an influence , ’ he said . |
| 4 | First , there may have been a continuation of the thick-enamelled trend independently of the pongine radiation , such as is seen in Graecopithecus for instance . |
| 5 | The second alternative is that there may have been a continuation of the dryopithecin radiation . |
| 6 | When these cyclosporin specific side effects occurred , there may have been a tendency for the study drug to be disclosed . |
| 7 | Migration may have been a factor in the 1920s , though the level of net migration from Britain was somewhat less than it had been in the previous two decades . |
| 8 | The military involvement of the northern Angles against the Picts may have been a factor in the success of Wulfhere 's coup in Mercia in 658 or 659 and in the disintegration thereafter of Oswiu 's southern imperium . |
| 9 | It may have been a factor in leading a plaintiff to sue in the county court rather than the High Court when his or her claim lay within its jurisdiction . |
| 10 | A perceived lack of response may have been a factor in the withdrawal of these patients , but deterioration of eczema was the principal reason for withdrawal in only 8 patients , 7 of whom were assessed at least once on treatment . |
| 11 | They also believe that their poor accomodation may have been a factor in loosing the baby . |
| 12 | The killing of Earnwine , son of Eadwulf , in 740 may have been a prolongation of older rivalries which sparked off a new cycle of vendetta . |
| 13 | It may have been a sign of things to come that though the strike led to a long lasting respect between Havelock Wilson and Tom Mann , no such relationship developed with Ben Tillett , who in his recollections of the strike refrains from making mention of Wilson at all . |
| 14 | It may have been a stopping-place for drovers — but he could still do Dr Johnson the honour of making lemonade from fresh lemons . |
| 15 | Dana was often embarrassed by his good looks and their power over everyone who met him , so his tiny writing may have been a kind of Walserian camouflage . |
| 16 | Charlton thought it may have been a kind of store-yard where goods for the abbey were landed and deposited . |
| 17 | The Edict of Pîtres ( unlike the Statute of Labourers ) may have been a response to a situation that was only local — confined , that is , to the lower Seine valley . |
| 18 | His plea that Louis stop appointing widows as abbesses may have been a response to the installation of Judith 's mother Heilwig as abbess of Chelles . |
| 19 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 20 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 21 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 22 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 23 | Well it may have been a grunt of irritation that his lovely hire-car was steaming up with two sweaty , stinking hill-walkers who had forced their way in uninvited , but I prefer to think disbelief . |
| 24 | Suez , in 1956 , may have been a buoy in the main stream of British history , marking the end of empire and the beginning of the post-imperial era , but the course taken by Britain when rounding that buoy was based upon her experiences since the end of the Second World War . |
| 25 | It is believed the victim may have been a member of the Irish People 's Liberation organisation . |
| 26 | Elizabeth did not get one , and that may have been a tribute to her good taste ; she would have had no room in her house for such an object . |
| 27 | It may have been a trick of the light . |
| 28 | Although there may have been a settlement of Illyrian-Greeks there before the second century BC when the Roman occupation of Dalmatia began , there is little evidence of continuous use of the site until the seventh century AD . |
| 29 | There was always the possibility , of course , that his suggestion of a fortnight ago may have been a whim of the moment , and he would no longer be approving of the idea . |
| 30 | In another case there was an announcement of a General Election and in another case there was a concern that there may have been a change of government because of the opinion polls . |