Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of active swimming habits may have rendered the complex suture lines superfluous . |
| 2 | This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once . |
| 3 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 4 | ARDS may have lost the Irish Soccer Cup final to Bangor this season , but their swim minnows made sure Bangor were n't going to do a double at the Grove Pool last weekend . |
| 5 | On the other hand , small temples like the one at Gournia and those towns , like palaikastro , which apparently managed without temples , may have organized the agricultural production of their own estates near by on a scale that was commensurate with their size and rate of population growth . |
| 6 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
| 7 | The Iceni may have harried the northern boundary of the Trinovantes , with freedom to raid and loot , and the Regini provided the Roman fleet with an important haven in Bosham , from which the army launched its attack along the coast to the west . |
| 8 | For remarkably little effort , you may have saved an endangered building . |
| 9 | TEATIME viewers to ITV 's results service last Saturday may have noticed a promising debut at the Sunderland-West Ham Cup tie . |
| 10 | You may have noticed the happy ending came rather pat . |
| 11 | Staff of private establishments in 1990 may have overestimated the actual disability of their residents , or the methods of care in these homes may lead to increased dependency . |
| 12 | Reading Crown Court heard eccentric loner Mr Clark , of Langley , Berks , may have inflicted the fatal injuries himself . |
| 13 | Behind the scenes they may have affected the prime minister directly . |
| 14 | But all these factors may have affected the actual form of upper segments of the profile . |
| 15 | Stock exchanges and complex financial instruments may have decoupled the legal notion of ownership from this commitment , but the underlying principle endures . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 19 | This may have caused the general tendency for films with a large amount of fixed information to be judged as distractors and hence the overall correlation with values of B. |
| 20 | It 's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs . |
| 21 | Events of January may have caused the Scottish Office to reconsider its stance . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 24 | The canonization of Becket may have made a lasting impression on the future pope Innocent , at the time a boy of twelve or thirteen . |
| 25 | The general may have made a false start , but his was a worthwhile beginning . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 28 | Vagrants from these populations may have explored the Southern Ocean and landed on some of the cool temperate islands , but there is no convincing evidence for their reaching Antarctica . |
| 29 | I mean it may have pleased the Irish government a bit but it 's got implications both domestically and internationally . |
| 30 | 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 . |