Example sentences of "may have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of active swimming habits may have rendered the complex suture lines superfluous . |
| 2 | This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once . |
| 3 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 4 | ARDS may have lost the Irish Soccer Cup final to Bangor this season , but their swim minnows made sure Bangor were n't going to do a double at the Grove Pool last weekend . |
| 5 | On the other hand , small temples like the one at Gournia and those towns , like palaikastro , which apparently managed without temples , may have organized the agricultural production of their own estates near by on a scale that was commensurate with their size and rate of population growth . |
| 6 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
| 7 | The Iceni may have harried the northern boundary of the Trinovantes , with freedom to raid and loot , and the Regini provided the Roman fleet with an important haven in Bosham , from which the army launched its attack along the coast to the west . |
| 8 | For remarkably little effort , you may have saved an endangered building . |
| 9 | TEATIME viewers to ITV 's results service last Saturday may have noticed a promising debut at the Sunderland-West Ham Cup tie . |
| 10 | You may have noticed the happy ending came rather pat . |
| 11 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
| 12 | Staff of private establishments in 1990 may have overestimated the actual disability of their residents , or the methods of care in these homes may lead to increased dependency . |
| 13 | Reading Crown Court heard eccentric loner Mr Clark , of Langley , Berks , may have inflicted the fatal injuries himself . |
| 14 | Behind the scenes they may have affected the prime minister directly . |
| 15 | But all these factors may have affected the actual form of upper segments of the profile . |
| 16 | Stock exchanges and complex financial instruments may have decoupled the legal notion of ownership from this commitment , but the underlying principle endures . |
| 17 | In newly-published research , two American scientists claim the eruption of Toba in Sumatra 73,500 years ago — the largest in the last million years and five times bigger than Tambora — may have caused a global cooling of 3-5C . |
| 18 | Similarly , the increasing use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may have caused an increasing number of peptic ulcer cases in the older age groups . |
| 19 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 20 | This may have caused the general tendency for films with a large amount of fixed information to be judged as distractors and hence the overall correlation with values of B. |
| 21 | It 's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs . |
| 22 | Events of January may have caused the Scottish Office to reconsider its stance . |
| 23 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
| 24 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 25 | The canonization of Becket may have made a lasting impression on the future pope Innocent , at the time a boy of twelve or thirteen . |
| 26 | The general may have made a false start , but his was a worthwhile beginning . |
| 27 | Cynics believe that the administration may have made a secret deal with Noriega , and some of the defence testimony seems to bear out this theory . |
| 28 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 29 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc , however , says it may have to do a Pentium-specific version of its Unix operating system . |
| 30 | Vagrants from these populations may have explored the Southern Ocean and landed on some of the cool temperate islands , but there is no convincing evidence for their reaching Antarctica . |