Example sentences of "may have [been] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some conference representatives may have been influenced by a fiercely polemical front page editorial in yesterday 's Daily Mail . |
| 2 | Countess Cassillis said she believed that the jury may have been influenced by a crucial piece of evidence which was submitted only yesterday morning after the judge had completed his summing up . |
| 3 | And Williamson suggests that this line of approach may have been influenced by an important letter sent to Baldwin , by W. Bridgeman , which stated : |
| 4 | As most of Paterson 's book deals with the histories of Ayrshire 's leading families , his comment on the shoot may have been coloured by a desire to please the gentry involved in the Society , as by 1870 interest had declined to rock bottom with no entries for the papingo shoot . |
| 5 | THE cache of Semtex explosive and suspected bomb making equipment discovered on Hampstead Heath in London may have been hidden by an IRA cell for a bombing attack , it emerged yesterday , writes Terry Kirby . |
| 6 | You may have been instructed by a superior in your organisation to solve a problem by writing a report on it . |
| 7 | In the 1989 case , magma was forced into two arms of an underground fissure network ( northeast and south-southeast of the southeast crater ) but may have been stopped by a structural boundary ( the caldera del Piano ) seen on the surface as a break in slope and encompassing the southeast crater and stations Belvedere and TDF ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 8 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 9 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
| 10 | It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system . |
| 11 | It 's thought the blaze may have been caused by a spark from a firework used in a stage act getting into the air heating system . |
| 12 | Sources close to the ministry said later that early indications suggested the deaths may have been caused by a fault with a stove in the tent . |
| 13 | ANYONE who may have been disturbed by a recent Monitor report on the threat of cancer lurking in normal cells ( New Scientist , 3 March , p 583 ) , can sleep easy again , at least for the time being . |
| 14 | On the one hand , arrest may have been followed by a term of remand and then imprisonment . |
| 15 | It is very important that credit is given for any UK tax which may have been borne by an overseas trust . |
| 16 | This may have been characterised by a mystic other-worldliness which had little time for the concerns of this world , and the working out of faith in relation to the everyday challenges of life . |
| 17 | Even the first printed edition of a text may have been altered by an editor , printer or typesetter . |
| 18 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 19 | For instance , the ground you are netting may have been worked by a fox , cat or dog just before your arrival on the scene and the rabbits sent scurrying for home . |
| 20 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 21 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 22 | A year earlier Matisse had show his painting Le Bonheur de Vivre ( Barnes Foundation , Merrion , Penn. ) at the Salon des Indépendants , where it had received a great deal of attention , and during the winter of 1907 Derain was engaged in painting a canvas of bathers ( Museum of Modern Art , New York ) which he intended to show at the Indépendants of 1907 , so that it is possible that the Demoiselles may have been prompted by a spirit of rivalry . |
| 23 | Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England . |
| 24 | It 's badly bruised — it may have been knocked by a car . |
| 25 | I agree with you , the pointed base does suggest that it may have been used by a travelling craftsman . |
| 26 | The knife handle was found in Colchester and may have been used by a legionary . |
| 27 | Some of the patterns shown are so elaborate that it seems doubtful that they were woven : some may have been printed with blocks , while others may have been produced by a mixed-medium method , combining printing , embroidery , and appliqué work . |
| 28 | A further means , in hard cases , of avoiding the formalities required by s. 2 , Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 , and s. 52(1) , Law of Property Act 1925 , may have been provided by a recent Court of Appeal decision on the doctrine of donatio mortis causa , which enables a person , in contemplation of their death , to make a gift without formalities . |
| 29 | For instance , the child may have been stigmatised by a physical handicap and rejected by peers for a number of years . |
| 30 | A ward at Guy 's Hospital in London has been closed following the deaths of two babies who may have been infected by a bug there . |