Example sentences of "may have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |
| 2 | In the case of black speakers , because LE is almost certainly their dominant language , though they may have been exposed to Creole first ; at any rate , the possibility that these occasional " Creolisms " are due to a carry-over from the " mother tongue " remains doubtful and unproven . |
| 3 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 4 | The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument . |
| 5 | At the touch of a button , the metallic strip on an identity card will surrender every scrap of information about us stored by any government department , as well as whatever ‘ confidential ’ and uncheckable information may have been collected by secret means . |
| 6 | Another possibility is that the gas density may have been overestimated for some reason . |
| 7 | Its distribution again emphasises that the dispersal of some rare imports may have been governed by social or political factors . |
| 8 | It may have been ignored since 1981 and left to make do with just two small engines ( and thus no way of cashing in on the ever-increasing popularity of the hot supermini in Britain ) but all that 's changed now . |
| 9 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 10 | It may be that the temples , through their bureaucracy , were able to set quotas on production in the rural villages ; these may have been specified taxes , or tribute , or they may have been expressed as required offerings . |
| 11 | Divisions may have been formed for administrative or historical reasons , which do not necessarily produce organizational units which are identical with SBUs . |
| 12 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 13 | Some voices of the past may have been based on shaky techniques , or their use transgressed today 's views about musical taste , but many others still shatter the sense by their beauty , magnificence and sheer character in the vocalisation . |
| 14 | His pamphlet Nothing gained by overcrowding ! ( 1912 ) may have been based on questionable statistics , but the approach and general philosophy proved increasingly acceptable to informed opinion . |
| 15 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 16 | While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems . |
| 17 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 18 | The rationale behind the exposure draft is that the auditors may be improperly pressurised into adopting the opinion the outside firm has given , and that this opinion may have been given with inadequate knowledge of the circumstances . |
| 19 | A few sinuous ridges are seen , steep on both sides , and these too may have been raised by interior contraction . |
| 20 | Spectacles or low vision aids may have been prescribed in some cases , and teachers should be informed about this . |
| 21 | Whilst some of these drugs may have been obtained by illegal means , the evidence suggests that a significant minority became addicted to opioids originating from a legal source , that is , family practitioners . |
| 22 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 23 | Many tools may have been made of organic materials but some , for instance wood-working tools , were of metal . |
| 24 | If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date . |
| 25 | The subtlety of his disagreement with the garden city lobby may have been lost on many , but the message in his final chapter was clear and unequivocal : ‘ Plan we must ’ . |
| 26 | Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after . |
| 27 | What is even worse , however , is that as the two fonts may have been prepared from different masters there could be subtle variations between them — even though they are notionally the same typeface . |
| 28 | A head-on car crash in which five women were killed may have been caused by flat tyres . |
| 29 | It was of little concern to Dan that much of the weathering may have been caused by industrial pollution — what mattered was that science had found an answer . |
| 30 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |