Example sentences of "may have [verb] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belief in the cyclical nature of the universe found its apotheosis in the concept of the Great Year , which the Greeks may have inherited from the Babylonians . |
| 2 | It is possible to speculate that John 's anger may have stemmed from the student turning his attention to the mother ; but whatever the explanation , John responded and reacted to the student . |
| 3 | The evidence actually tends to be ambiguous ( West 1969 ; Jones 1979b ) as indications of timberwork at the lip of the pit may be connected with the superstructure and planking in the base may have fallen from the walls or roof lining . |
| 4 | According to Gregory , Chlodomer 's kingdom was divided equally between Childebert and Chlothar , but in so far as this division can be reconstructed it appears not to have been confined to the two brothers ; there are grounds for thinking that Theuderic also may have profited from the murders . |
| 5 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 6 | The Institution regrets any misunderstanding which may have arisen from the article and apologises for any offence or inconvenience caused to G.L. Watson and Company and Mr J Allen McLachlan . |
| 7 | That much the reader may have gathered from the argument so far . |
| 8 | Reputedly the smallest of England 's parish churches , it may have developed from an anchorite 's cell in the eleventh or twelfth century , and since that time had drawn many pilgrims to its almost inaccessible woodland site . |
| 9 | She may have emerged from the burrow system unnoticed and either slipped away under cover or escaped into an adjoining burrow system . |
| 10 | As described in the previous section , this may have resulted from a decrease in the number of elderly people using buses following the introduction in September 1991 of fares for concessionary travel . |
| 11 | This may have resulted from a number of factors : progressive stripping of the upper soil horizons , gullying or the introduction of plough agriculture . |
| 12 | Deformation of the weak Tibetan crust and flow in the upper mantle may have resulted from the north-south squeezing generated by plate convergence . |
| 13 | Present-day stateless societies are not necessarily representative of all , or even most , of the earliest human communities , many of which may have had from the beginning some differentiation of political functions based upon age or gender ; and in any event enquiry into such questions remains largely speculative . |
| 14 | It is best known for persecuting Indian peasants , especially the lower castes or ‘ Untouchables ’ , who may have stolen from a neighbour or have demonstrated dirty habits . |
| 15 | Although the bird was native to America , its name may have evolved from the days when turkey was first distributed in England by Turkish merchants . |
| 16 | However , notwithstanding that registration has not occurred , the beneficial interest in the shares may have passed from the transferor to the transferee . |
| 17 | Keep your interview file together with your post-interview checklist and any comments you may have gleaned from the interviewer or Personnel Department through your follow-up call . |
| 18 | In your mind you may have to start from the beginning of the paradigm and go down until you arrive at the form you need at the moment . |
| 19 | The acid rain problem may have disappeared from the headlines but it is far from being solved . |
| 20 | It 's thought he may have collapsed from the shock of the burglary . |
| 21 | Such new , articulate expression may have derived from the fact that older people in the late 1930s comprised the first fully literate generation and were also members of a cohort which had ‘ acquired trade union habits and organisation ’ . |
| 22 | Compound documents of this type are traditionally assembled by layout artists from the various elements which may have come from a typesetting house , design studio , photographer or elsewhere . |
| 23 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 24 | A plain black obsidian which the Minoan craftsmen tried may have come from the Siftlik area of Cappadocia . |
| 25 | There was ‘ vague information ’ that the person concerned might have eaten an egg which may have come from the monastery , Mother Catherine said . |
| 26 | A gold-mounted disc of amber found at Knossos may have come from the Wessex culture of southern England . |
| 27 | He was a wealthy man , and although some of his wealth may have come from the profits of war , he benefited substantially from Edward 's patronage . |