Example sentences of "may have [been] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demonstrations that followed Kolbin 's appointment may have been covertly encouraged by Kunaev 's clients ; there was certainly no doubt that , as Literaturnaya gazeta reported in early 1987 , the news provoked ‘ inexperienced and politically illiterate youths ’ to take to the streets , later to be joined by ‘ hooligans , drunks and other anti-social types ’ . |
| 2 | The sauropods have relatively long , pillar-like legs , resembling those of the elephant , the largest living land animal , and may have been well adapted for supporting the huge bulk of the animal . |
| 3 | The former was one of the women most admired by Gregory , and as a sometime wife of Chlothar she may have been well informed about his children . |
| 4 | Influences were mutual , and Philip the Fair 's cult of the sainted kingship of Louis IX may have been partly inspired by Henry III 's and Edward I 's promotion of Edward the Confessor . |
| 5 | If one remembers that the rebels had sympathizers in London , although these may have been partly alienated from them by the disorders , it is all the more remarkable how quickly the city authorities reasserted their control and obtained substantial support . |
| 6 | His devastation of Kent in 676 , in the course of which Rochester was ransacked ( HE IV , 12 ) , may have been partly designed at least to deter the Kentish king from attempting to repossess Surrey . |
| 7 | The headmaster may if he think proper read each day on the opening of school such prayers as may have been previously approved of by the Governors , but no sectarian comments nor any doctrinal teaching may be allowed in the school . " |
| 8 | It may have been clearly stated at the previous meeting that the date of the next meeting would be so-and-so , but this will not prevent people from forgetting all about it . |
| 9 | A possible short term reduction of microalbuminuria due to hydrochlorothiazide 's hypotensive effect may have been progressively counterbalanced by the effective renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system stimulation provoked by the same drug . |
| 10 | At first the native community of the Weald may have been little affected by the expansion of the iron industry . |
| 11 | The rumours must have reached Richard 's ears — indeed they may have been primarily intended for him . |
| 12 | In conclusion , our findings suggest that H pylori infection may have been predominantly acquired at a young age in the past . |
| 13 | But though others may have been fundamentally changed by such sudden acclaim , little Loris knows full well that the challenge of the 1991 season is a much tougher one . |
| 14 | Similarly , if the terrace is a river form , its original sharp front edge ( XUY ) may have been considerably altered by erosion . |
| 15 | AN INVESTIGATION into allegations that dozens of black and Asian children may have been wrongly sent to special schools in Strathclyde region has been initiated by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 16 | The prospect that perhaps hundreds of black and Asian children may have been wrongly consigned to special schools because of a failure properly to understand their needs is one which education authorities have been reluctant to confront . |
| 17 | The first of the preliminary sketches for the Demoiselles , on the other hand , suggest that at first Picasso may have been more drawn to Cézanne 's earlier , more romantic figure pieces . |
| 18 | The propensity of these birds to fly off with any attractive object , is so well known to the natives , that they always search the runs for any small missing article that may have been accidentally dropped in the bush . |
| 19 | The Chinese may have been cavalierly treated since then . |
| 20 | And whatever may have been socially expected of them , some grandfathers evidently helped in a similar way . |
| 21 | Some initiatives may have been initially funded through Urban Programme expenditure : the enveloping of the external fabric of older dwellings and managed workshops ( discussed in Chapter 7 ) were initiated using the Urban Programme , but it would be difficult to argue that these would not have occurred if Urban Programme funds had not been available . |
| 22 | An important aspect of transmammary infection is that disease may occur in suckled pups reared in a clean environment and nursed by a bitch which may have been recently treated with an anthelmintic and has a negative faecal egg count . |
| 23 | This may have been quickly followed by the capture and ransom of the latter , by Northmen if we believe Thietmar of Merseburg , by Slavs according to Adam . |