Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You may have noticed the happy ending came rather pat . |
| 8 | Richard Assheton may have employed the best church architects of his day because he was himself an amateur architect ( he designed a church at Flecknoe , near Daventry , south of Rugby ) and hence may have appreciated the difficulties of architectural design and the ability of talented practitioners to resolve them happily . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Reading Crown Court heard eccentric loner Mr Clark , of Langley , Berks , may have inflicted the fatal injuries himself . |
| 11 | Behind the scenes they may have affected the prime minister directly . |
| 12 | But all these factors may have affected the actual form of upper segments of the profile . |
| 13 | Stock exchanges and complex financial instruments may have decoupled the legal notion of ownership from this commitment , but the underlying principle endures . |
| 14 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | It 's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs . |
| 17 | Events of January may have caused the Scottish Office to reconsider its stance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I mean it may have pleased the Irish government a bit but it 's got implications both domestically and internationally . |
| 20 | In France and Spain , therefore , notices of medieval and Renaissance music on record are usually written by critics who may have studied the historical performance of the repertory in question less than the performers whose work is being reviewed . |
| 21 | Mr. Gardiner argued that Walton J. erred in a number of respects although he may have reached the right answer by the wrong route . |
| 22 | However much Cnut may have played the Christian king , he was , like other rulers , willing to turn a blind eye to church teaching when it suited him . |
| 23 | The Princess of Wales may have foreseen the latest controversy over her marriage in the stars . |
| 24 | Perhaps as a result of Syrian influence , companies of eunuch priests may have inhabited the Minoan temples ; in a later period , it is known that eunuch priests served Cybele and Attis in Anatolia . |
| 25 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 26 | Although there is no evidence that Horace Walpole ( who died on 2 March 1797 ) ever attended College meetings it is pleasant to think that he may have formed the undiscovered link between Lord Camden and the as yet unlocated Veterinary College . |
| 27 | In the meanwhile , the Constable bought in at Sotheby 's last month at £850,000 may have given the Principal pause for thought . |
| 28 | The solicitors for Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council , which paid out £15,000 compensation to Veronica Bland , have confirmed that reports in the media may have given the false impression that such a relationship has been established . |
| 29 | Some may have given the wrong answer for reasons other than conceptual difficulty : making a slip , an arithmetic error , misreading or not being able to read the question , not trying and so on . |
| 30 | Undoubtedly there have been numerous policy turnabouts , most noticeably at the time of the Cultural Revolution when forestry resources were misused for unsuitable land reclamation ( Gustafsson , undated ) , which in certain particularly vulnerable areas may have exacerbated the destructive floods of autumn 1981 . |