Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
| 2 | Staff may have noticed some new faces and new uniforms in the reception areas of Stamford and Rennie Houses . |
| 3 | Adjustments to incorporate various factors which may have affected this annual prevalence figure ( over 200 cases lacking an identity code , low response rates from GPs and social workers ) suggest a possible range of 1,550 to 1,850 individual problem drug users in Wirral during 1984–5 . |
| 4 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 5 | Frequent house moves caused by a partner 's promotion may have made any long-term employment unviable . |
| 6 | We have received no formal approaches of this sort although we believe some organisations may have expressed some informal interest to DTI . |
| 7 | Check with your language helper next session , for you may have missed some phonetic detail which could be important . |
| 8 | Enterprising landowners may have developed such valuable assets and erected health resorts similar to establishments of recent centuries . |
| 9 | Although the Labour Left may have considered this official conversion to Socialism somewhat belated , it was attracted to the Peace Alliance only in so far as it represented a continuation of previous Unity campaigns . |
| 10 | Early life on Earth may have had many false starts — as many as ten — with each based on a different biochemistry . |
| 11 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 12 | They included weapons , jewellery , and objects which may have had some symbolic significance , whether religious or royal . |
| 13 | She may have had some outdoor work as well , such as feeding poultry . |
| 14 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 15 | The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters . |
| 16 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 17 | It is also worth checking the text itself as the change of display may have forced some unexpected re-composition . |
| 18 | Travel back into those mists of time and you will meet many who have gone before and who also may have experienced these sudden sea frets , for that is what these mists are . |
| 19 | Objects frequently provide a link with very ordinary people in the past , the sort of people who may have left few other records of themselves ( see Box 7 ) . |
| 20 | Even when there have been tensions and problems , we may have spent many out-of-work hours caring for parents , and there may be deep-rooted feelings of loss . |
| 21 | I remember a , I remember er an A H T came out with some figures five years ago which may have prompted some early retirements then . |
| 22 | It may have disappointed many fearless patriots like John Wayne , who presided over the fragrantly entitled ‘ Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals ’ . |
| 23 | Even though the vendor may have taken this basic protection , the vendor should be aware of the decision of the Chancery Division in Goff v Gauthier 62 P & CR [ 1991 ] 388 . |