Example sentences of "[noun] may have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 2 | Filling in the details on the marriage certificate may have proved a problem for Benjamin : his mother was now past hope in the workhouse , and his father had died when he himself was less than two years old . |
| 3 | If this interpretation is correct , then evolutionism may have played a role in promoting a greater awareness of environmental fragility mainly through its Lamarckian rather than its Darwinian version . |
| 4 | That two of his sons had fought for Parliament may have played a part in this transfer of loyalty . |
| 5 | Such patterns may have become a conventional part of the mosaicist 's repertory , indeed , the similarity of these mosaics to some in north-eastern England ( part IV ) suggests a widespread acceptance of these forms of decoration . |
| 6 | For these countries , the scale of expansion was not affected by the dollar crisis ( although the form may have been — the ‘ automatic ’ nature of the monetary expansion generated by dollar inflows may have bred a more monetary , and less fiscal , policy mixture than would otherwise have been adopted , and thus contributed to the easy money regime ) . |
| 7 | Many schemes are funded for three to five years and , although some tapering mechanisms may allow continued but limited funding thereafter , in the long run local authorities may have to bear a larger proportion of total expenditure if schemes are to continue . |
| 8 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 9 | Roger may have played a significant part in raising funds for the enterprise . |
| 10 | Here , with my seal-profile friend Fairfax , in the sight of the Mountain of God , I see that Victoria may have had a point . |
| 11 | Even so , Warner may have made a ‘ profit ’ out of the film after all , by charging itself a huge distribution fee . |
| 12 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 13 | Baseball may have become a parks game in Britian in recent years but now in Gloucestershire there 's a new name to put alongside the Chicago Whitesox and the Los Angeles Dodgers … the name on the shirt is the Gloster Meteors . |
| 14 | Sheriff Robert Younger told him : ‘ You are a first offender and perhaps your alcoholism may have played a part in these offences . |
| 15 | If they cause very high casualties the enemy units may have to take a panic test in the same way as for missile casualties . |
| 16 | It 's believed a man who answered the advert may have aranged a meeting and then strangled her . |
| 17 | Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded . |
| 18 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 19 | Cynics believe that the administration may have made a secret deal with Noriega , and some of the defence testimony seems to bear out this theory . |
| 20 | RESEARCHERS in Texas may have found a way of reducing brain damage in road accident victims who have been drinking excessively . |
| 21 | Again David may have learnt a valuable lesson — children need to learn how to select friends who are good for them . |
| 22 | Even the landscapes , birds and animals may have had a religious significance ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 23 | football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now … |
| 24 | TEATIME viewers to ITV 's results service last Saturday may have noticed a promising debut at the Sunderland-West Ham Cup tie . |
| 25 | While IBM Espana SA may have had a ‘ rather complicated ’ year , unlike the rest of the company , it at least managed to make a profit . |
| 26 | And talking about that — some readers may have encountered a research questionnaire in some copies of PFK recently . |
| 27 | As it happened a political upheaval in Indonesia in 1965 – 66 ( in which American contacts with the military in Indonesia may have played a part ) brought an unexpectedly early end to the confrontation with Britain . |
| 28 | But Somalia 's refugees may have suffered a less appalling fate than the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian refugees in Somalia , who have existed in desolate camps for nearly 10 years . |
| 29 | Sealstones and frescoes often depict cult scenes ; stone vessels were often intended for cult use ; the finest faience figurines were idols ; the metal and clay figurines and miniature double-axes were intended as offerings to deities ; the recurring marine motif on the pottery and in frescoes may have had a cult association with the worship of Poseidon . |
| 30 | The access road , however , may not actually reach the boundary of the site and the original developer may have retained a strip as narrow as 1 m . |