Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hostility of his reception may have daunted other administrators from recruiting black players , but there was a gradual incursion of blacks into baseball in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 2 | The reader may be familiar with aspects of the individualistic account sketched in Table 1.1 : in particular , you may have noticed similar explanations of poverty or industrial conflict in the press or on television . |
| 3 | However , a combination of zidovudine with interferon alpha may have increased beneficial effects in KS . |
| 4 | It has also been reported that diabetics may have increased vascular sensitivity to angiotensin II ( Christlieb , 1976 ; Weidmann et al , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 6 | TIM EGGAR , the Energy Minister , may have caused mild panic among oil industry investors at a London conference last week when he spoke about the UK sector of the North Sea during the last two years having a ‘ strike ’ rate higher than ever before . |
| 7 | All these species have been affected by oil pollution which , while not always severe , is nearly always present and may have caused marked declines of some species in recent years . |
| 8 | ‘ He felt that if he went there it may have generated extra publicity through TV and radio interviews which might do some good in tracing the girls , ’ said Simon . |
| 9 | By contrast , seemingly secure elders may have made inauthentic adaptations to life which are disguised by the routines and objects of daily living . |
| 10 | Moreover , Purefoy may have made unreasonable demands on those who worked for him . |
| 11 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 12 | Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution . |
| 13 | Some estates may have received new owners with little change , or they could have been divided and redistributed ; others may have been enlarged with the addition of adjacent lands or groups of estates under a single owner . |
| 14 | Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship . |
| 15 | It may have damaged rubber seals on the equipment , rendering them unsafe . |
| 16 | Occasional large individuals within otherwise " normal " European populations may have suffered parasitic castration by cercaria ( Cercaria purpurae ) of the digenean fluke Parorchis acanthus . |
| 17 | Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety , poverty , chronic illness , multiple losses and death . |
| 18 | It is also possible that cultural adaptations during this phase may have selected genetic bases for behaviour in ways that ensured the development of social strategies designed to ensure that individuals fitted well into the existing social structure . |
| 19 | Though 21 of 52 ( 40% ) of these referrals were not made by participating general practitioners and a proportion may have constituted unnecessary duplication of care , most were referred appropriately as part of the shared care arrangements . |
| 20 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 21 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 22 | Darlington police want to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious activity around the health authority offices at the estimated time of the incident . |
| 23 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 24 | ‘ Defence sources in Britain say the man may have done incalculable damage to the NATO alliance before his exposure last week , ’ Loretta read . |
| 25 | One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour . |
| 26 | Some teachers may specialize in certain sports , while others may have had experience of a particular instrument , such as the flute or violin , and therefore may have had similar problems as yourself . |
| 27 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |
| 28 | Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on . |
| 29 | by no means all the composers were Protestants ; Senfl , Arnold von Bruck , Mahu , and Hellinck were not , although they may have had secret leanings to Protestantism ; but Rhaw also published Latin church music , while Catholics all over Europe enjoyed vernacular Calvinist psalms . |
| 30 | Other parents , however , may want their child to attend a special school and may have had positive information about children with visual handicap who have been happy and successful in these schools . |