Example sentences of "may have been [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may have been good reasons of prudence in all this . |
| 2 | There may have been other churches of lower status on such estates as well . |
| 3 | It could well be that some of the summit surfaces of the Hercynian blocks are Eogene pediplains , while the weathering responsible for the formation of tors may have been tropical weathering of the same date . |
| 4 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 5 | Indeed , sometimes it is not very useful , as there may have been long periods without any clear artistic developments , such as the Roman empire of the fourth and fifth centuries or the early medieval period . |
| 6 | Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . |
| 7 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 8 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 9 | It is not clear how far there were similar local grievances to those of the Kentishmen in some of the other shires which were involved in the revolt , notably Sussex and Surrey , although it is probable that the resentment of the citizens of Salisbury at the powers which the bishop exercised there may have been one factor behind the murder of Ayscough ( 7 ; 147 , pp.63 , 66–8 ) . |
| 10 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 11 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 12 | These Hittites may have been early migrants from the Hittite Empire in Turkey ( founded about 1800 BC ) . |
| 13 | Patients in their study initially had no clinical or echocardiographic evidence of heart disease and they suggest that the QT interval abnormalities may have been early indicators of alcohol-induced myocardial toxicity . |
| 14 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 15 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 16 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 17 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 18 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 19 | During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas . |
| 20 | Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 21 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 22 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 23 | There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward . |
| 24 | Though there may have been some hostility between the victuallers and the non-victuallers , this can hardly have been the only factor involved . |
| 25 | Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses . |
| 26 | There may have been secret conclaves for this purpose . |
| 27 | And in 1972 the matching shoulder blades , vertebrae and pelvis of a sauropod even bigger than Brachiosaurus was dragged from the clay in Colorado : the largest vertebra was about 1.5 metres long , suggesting the animal was more than 16 metres tall , weighing over 80 tons and may have been 3 metres in length . |
| 28 | Singer ( 1958 ) , in a critique of the Boskop Skull which was discovered in 1913 on a Transvaal farm , points out that what may have been justifiable speculation at the beginning of the century is inexcusable now . |
| 29 | The dental remains indicate little more than a dependence on a hard-fruit diet , and there may have been several species with this inclination . |
| 30 | Herbs are cast into the fire by the Lady of the Flowers in lieu of what may have been gory sacrifices by our sun-worshipping ancestors . |