Example sentences of "may have [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some conference representatives may have been influenced by a fiercely polemical front page editorial in yesterday 's Daily Mail . |
| 2 | Countess Cassillis said she believed that the jury may have been influenced by a crucial piece of evidence which was submitted only yesterday morning after the judge had completed his summing up . |
| 3 | And Williamson suggests that this line of approach may have been influenced by an important letter sent to Baldwin , by W. Bridgeman , which stated : |
| 4 | Mr Des Wilson , the Liberal Democrat campaign manager , played down the racial element in the vote that defeated Mr Taylor , saying : ‘ We won that seat on the merits of our campaign , not because a few votes for the Tory may have been influenced by the colour of their candidate 's skin . ’ |
| 5 | This representation of Mithra appears to have been derived from Egyptian art , and it has been suggested that it may have been influenced by the bandages of mummified corpses . |
| 6 | We must constantly compare the copy with the reality shown to us by experienced paddlers and not simply look hard at a wide selection of paddlers and not simply look at our own friends and colleagues who may have been influenced by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 7 | The porch was commissioned by Bishop John Jewel , and its design may have been influenced by the neo-classical architecture to which Jewel had been exposed during his years of exile in Mary 's reign . |
| 8 | He may have been influenced by the views of the parliamentary reformer Major Cartwright who at this time was on an organisational subcommittee . |
| 9 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 10 | Judge Schucking may have been influenced by the fact that the Convention in question was the General Act of Berlin , which had been concluded by the Powers to settle issues of colonial rule in Africa , and thereby to lessen friction between them . |
| 11 | ( The pope may have been influenced by the fact that three years earlier the Spanish government had limited the right of asylum in Madrid , where it had also been quite unjustifiably extended , to the houses of foreign ambassadors . ) |
| 12 | The case for the removing of NTBs leading to a fundamental reconstruction of the economy of the EC may have been overestimated by the Cecchini Report . |
| 13 | It is regarded as the finest of the Cambridge college bridges ; an achievement to which the architect may have been spurred by the old St. John 's bridge , a masterpiece by Wren , barely 20 yards downstream . |
| 14 | New information may have been uncovered by the appraisal which alters the objectives or the ability of the parties to continue to participate . |
| 15 | They may have been corrupted by the atrocities committed against their people but , by stooping to the same level of conduct , they were corrupting their own cause . |
| 16 | Apologies to any readers who may have been misled by the original reply . |
| 17 | This impression may have been strengthened by the slow decline in the country 's commercial importance ( see pp. 90–1 ) , though this would have taken place whatever its political structure . |
| 18 | This may have been done by the surveyor to protect the building society or bank . |
| 19 | It also removes any duplicate tuples that may have been formed by the operation . |
| 20 | As most of Paterson 's book deals with the histories of Ayrshire 's leading families , his comment on the shoot may have been coloured by a desire to please the gentry involved in the Society , as by 1870 interest had declined to rock bottom with no entries for the papingo shoot . |
| 21 | Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting . |
| 22 | Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting . |
| 23 | But , although the situation may have been exploited by the Communist party , it was a purely cultural debate in which her defenders claimed , with justification , that her contribution to the promotion of music was inestimable . |
| 24 | He may have been inspired by the fact that the choristers of Magdalen College , Oxford , sing a Latin hymn at the top of the tower there to greet May Day . |
| 25 | Any legal restrictions that may have been imposed by the vendor or already have been included in earlier conveyances of the land or property can be identified . |
| 26 | The fundamental political changes of the inter-war years were probably inevitable by 1918 , though their pace may have been determined by the level of unemployment and the extent of social and economic reform . |
| 27 | His support may have been determined by the presence of Gundovald 's army in his cathedral city . |
| 28 | A notice may have been served with regard to an intention by a local authority compulsorily to purchase the property or part of it and again notices may have been received by the seller where the property is subject to occupation by a tenant . |
| 29 | But seven more victims came forward during the police investigation and ‘ as many as a hundred ’ may have been abused by the smooth-talking doctor , a senior detective admitted . |
| 30 | The inclusion of Nicholas Ferrar in the ASB may have been clinched by the popularity within the Church of T. S. Eliot 's later works , and in particular of the poem ‘ Little Gidding ’ in his Four Quartets . |