Example sentences of "may have [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the answer is ‘ no ’ then it may be that counselling has not yet reached a sufficiently advanced stage in the process , and we may have to return to earlier stages . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This may have led to some confusion and may explain why the condition , though acknowledged to be common , is not widely recognised . |
| 4 | For example , H pylori is implicated in the pathogenesis of atrophic gastritis , which may have led to decreased acid secretion through loss of parietal cells in groups of chronically infected subjects in some studies . |
| 5 | In fact , the more economical methods may have led to stronger liquors being discharged because the water has been the vehicle by which unwanted impurities have been removed from the textiles and put down the drain . |
| 6 | In the two cases of reobstruction , the pattern mimicked the previous stricture , suggesting that the radial force exerted by the mesh on the wall may have led to deeper embedding of the mesh where the stricture was tight or may have provoked more important hyperplasia , or both . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is uncertain to what extent British nuclear technology may have contributed to this process . |
| 9 | The extent to which wild type 1 and 3 infections may have contributed to rapid increases in seroprevalences in OPV recipients between 4–6 weeks and 13–17 months after vaccination is uncertain , since clinical and virological surveillance for poliomyelitis was not done in Abidjan during the study . |
| 10 | Abnormal hormone secretion in active coeliac disease may have contributed to these changes . |
| 11 | They face the prospect of having to accept unskilled jobs at lower wages or of retraining , in either event , they may have to move to another part of the country . |
| 12 | PS John Pemberton was a right-back in his days at Palace though he may have moved to central defence . |
| 13 | However comprehensive the pre-planning of such a situation , it could be anticipated that preliminary reconnaissance , the dispositioning of appliances , the gaining of access by the very limited facilities which such premises can offer and the initiation of a co-ordinated attack of conventional equipment would take even longer and that a fire may have developed to unmanageable proportions by the time such an attack could be mounted . |
| 14 | With no help around , you may have to resort to another tactic — a risky one : going to ground . |
| 15 | If all this fails , you may have to resort to another tactic . |
| 16 | In the road haulage industry the trade union representative may have to travel to other regions in the country to coordinate practice and policy and should advise his employer of the importance of this type of work to avoid misunderstandings . |
| 17 | Most of Wordsworth 's readers who have left us their opinions were middle-class , but we must remember that he addressed his poetry to readers of all classes and we do not know how much the choice of natural subject matter may have meant to urban dwellers who lived out of sight of flowers and trees . |
| 18 | Germany 's offer may have appealed to anti-Russian prejudice , but then the Polish state had fought and beaten the Soviets once , and compared to that Hitler 's offer sounded to Lipski like the opportunity to become a mere German satellite . |
| 19 | In eighteenth-century England , for example , the practical sciences may have appealed to some dissenters because they were denied access to other professions . |
| 20 | 7.6.6.1 the Term will absolutely cease but without prejudice to any rights or remedies that may have accrued to either party against the other including ( without prejudice to the generality of the above ) any right that the Tenant might have against the Landlord for a breach of the Landlord 's covenants set out in clauses 7.6.1 and 7.6.2 |
| 21 | The cancer growth may be removed from their breasts , but there 's always the chance it may have spread to other parts of the body . |
| 22 | It may have occurred to some readers already . |
| 23 | Transmission of infection is occurring both among the young , who may not have been fully exposed to the health education of the mid-1980s , and in older age groups , who may have changed to unsafe sex practices after previously heeding health advice . |
| 24 | 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 . |