Example sentences of "may have been [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 2 | Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . |
| 3 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 4 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 5 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 6 | Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 7 | Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses . |
| 8 | And in 1972 the matching shoulder blades , vertebrae and pelvis of a sauropod even bigger than Brachiosaurus was dragged from the clay in Colorado : the largest vertebra was about 1.5 metres long , suggesting the animal was more than 16 metres tall , weighing over 80 tons and may have been 3 metres in length . |