Example sentences of "may have been [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
2 | These conclusions are probably most valid for the female Type 2 diabetic subject , in whom it is interesting to speculate that serum lipid levels may have been towards the upper end of the normal distribution even in adolescence . |
3 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
4 | It is not at all unlikely that some pressure was put on women in these two key firms , but it may have been of a persuasive rather than an intimidating kind . |
5 | Alhred 's power-base may have been in the lower Tyne , for the body of his son , Osred , was carried to Tynemouth to be buried in the monastery there . |
6 | It may have been in the early 630s , when Oswiu was in his late teens , that he married Riemmelth , granddaughter of Rhun ( HB ch. 57 ) , for he had a son , Ealhfrith , and a daughter , Ealhflaed , old enough to be married c. 650 ( HE 111 , 21 ) . |
7 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
8 | However successful these policies may have been in the fifties we have , I believe , convincing evidence that they have failed since the world-wide inflation which started with the mismanagement of the finances raised to pay for the Vietnam War . |
9 | Pursuing this laissez-faire policy may have been in the national interest , but it did n't seem to be in John 's or that of the other hostages . |
10 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |
11 | The stress may have been in the wrong place . |
12 | We are all aware that streams dry up , valleys fill with silt ( Fig. 3 ) , and that changes can occur along the coast , but we perhaps underestimate how great these changes may have been in the last 1000 years . |
13 | They also look at wider issues such as their own up-bringing which may have been in an addictive family and may have led to many grief or abuse or other issues that may still need to be processed with a sponsor or a professional counsellor if there is to be further progress in recovery . |
14 | The aqueous micelles comprising droplets of 1-octanol stabilised by octanoate ( surfactant is generated upon addition of sodium permanganate , which oxidises the alcohol to give the salt ) , could have biological relevance , because these may have been among the first prebiotic structures able to self-replicate . |
15 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |