Example sentences of "may have [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities there was a massive 37.5 per cent increase in rent arrears in the six months immediately following the benefit changes in April 1988.37 Other benefit changes may have contributed to this increase in arrears : the change from supplementary benefit to income support ; the insistence that everyone should be required to pay at least 20 per cent of their rates ( community charge ) and all of their water rates ; and the replacement of urgent needs payments by social fund loans . |
| 2 | It is uncertain to what extent British nuclear technology may have contributed to this process . |
| 3 | We apologise for any misunderstanding which may have arisen from this error . |
| 4 | I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify any uncertainty that may have resulted from this case , the specific circumstances which lay behind it and the way in which it had to be decided . |
| 5 | For example , there will be some pupils who may have arrived in this country only shortly before the assessment time at one of the key ages . |
| 6 | It goes on to Culworth , where it meets Banbury Lane , and may have proceeded along this Lane to the great markets of Northampton , where the cattle were sold in large numbers for fattening on the rich Midland pastures . |
| 7 | Kinnock may have failed in this election ultimately because he could not convince the country that he would be a truly national leader . |
| 8 | In the course of writing this , we have realised that it would be helpful to ask Mbuna keepers ( past and present ) to let us have details of any females they have owned , that may have behaved in this way . |
| 9 | Glory may have departed from this earth , but faint traces or soft echoes of it persist in the unlikeliest recesses of mind and landscape . |
| 10 | The Bill aims to close gaps in existing law on fraud and allow courts in England and Wales to try cases of fraud and similar offences , where much of the criminal activity may have occurred in this country but where the final act happened overseas . |
| 11 | 7.7.6 to give notice to the Landlord immediately upon the happening of any event which might affect any insurance policy on or relating to the Premises or upon the happening of any event against which the Landlord may have insured under this Lease The following amendment should be considered : … immediately upon becoming aware of the happening of any event … 7.7.7 immediately to inform the Landlord in writing of any conviction judgment or finding of any court or tribunal relating to the Tenant ( or any director other officer or major shareholder of the Tenant ) of such a nature as to be likely to affect the decision of any insurer or underwriter to grant or to continue any such insurance The requirement to notify the landlord in respect of convictions should be deleted for the reason stated above . |
| 12 | How relationships may have changed by this time ! |
| 13 | He may have acted in this way because the dog was worrying sheep , or because he wanted to annoy the dog 's owner , or simply because he despises all alsatians . |
| 14 | He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad . |