Example sentences of "[noun pl] may have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 2 | A spokesman admitted some personnel may have been unhappy with a process of ‘ radical ’ change , but insisted : ‘ The vast majority of people would not have recognised the description in that article . ’ |
| 3 | The initiating event in these three cases may have been technical , but the persistent fistulas are probably related to underlying Crohn 's disease . |
| 4 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 5 | Before the amendments made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 , there was no such provision although the courts may have been prepared to imply an appropriate term into a software licence where the making of a back-up copy was reasonably necessary to the use of the program in question . |
| 6 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 7 | Some faint impressions on the inside of the dermal skeleton suggest that at least paired nasal sacs may have been present ( unlike in modern hagfishes ) . |
| 8 | Although family health services authorities may have been oblivious to these activities , this does not indicate their absence . |
| 9 | Burgundians may have been involved in the crossing of the Rhine in 406 . |
| 10 | Such phenomena may have been present in three of our patints , in whom a slight bile acid malabsorption was found with the SeHCAT test , but in whom there was no increase in bile acid synthesis by the liver . |
| 11 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 12 | It appears that the scent of these oils can affect the etheric body , perhaps creating the right atmosphere for particular states of consciousness , and ancient peoples may have been aware of this . |
| 13 | Such looms may have been present in every household . |
| 14 | Fleischmann and Pons , who did not realise that they had measured their neutron signal incorrectly , thought that their cell was producing 10 000 neutrons per cm 3 of palladium each second ( in fact the totality of neutrons from cosmic rays , from the concrete in the laboratory , from radon and other gases seeping through the air vents may have been responsible for almost all of these and the fusion neutrons , if there were any , were far fewer ) , and so Jones ' data did n't appear very impressive . |
| 15 | ‘ Some of their success in attracting savings may have been due to people 's desire to save rather than spend and they are well placed to fund mortgages for those now planning to buy homes . ’ |
| 16 | Some readers may have been shocked that one professor of English should thus refer to another , but these are robust times . |
| 17 | Some of your readers may have been confused by a report of our work in Aberdeen University on oilseed rape allergies , and subsequent letters from a farmer and an anti-allergy campaigner . |
| 18 | Preliminary observations on Harris ( Birks , unpublished ) suggest that local glaciers may have been present during the stadial in some of the valleys around Clisham , Ullaval , Tirga Mor , and Uisgnaval More . |
| 19 | These Hittites may have been early migrants from the Hittite Empire in Turkey ( founded about 1800 BC ) . |
| 20 | Equally , while the procedure which produced the Enham texts may have been similar to those responsible for some of Æthelstan 's codes and I Edmund , the promulgation of archiepiscopal admonitions as royal decrees is also reminiscent of those issued by Henry II after the synod of Dortmund in 1005 . |
| 21 | For example , while some companies may have been able to ignore the social protest of individuals who suffered the effects of industrial pollution , they found it more difficult to resist organized groups of citizens whose opposition accompanied a marked decline in support for the LDP . |
| 22 | Although the quantities are different , the source , fall-off curves and distribution of greywacké whetstones ( black dots ) and the neolithic axes are very similar , emphasising how the source of stone for the whetstones may have been glacial erratics . |
| 23 | Systems comparable to this operated in the east , in Ugarit and the land of the Hatti , where ‘ guilds ’ of artisans were able to pursue their various callings in the town bazaars , and some development along these lines may have been possible in Minoan Crete . |
| 24 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 25 | Such attacks may have been counterproductive . |
| 26 | It is true that the early coastal attacks may have been difficult to counter because of uncertainty about where they would occur , and that interception at sea depended on the availability of reliable intelligence . |
| 27 | The decline in gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted diseases in the mid-1980s may have been due to safer sex practices after health education through the mass media and various other local activities . |
| 28 | There seem to have been relatively few trading links with Attica , which is surprising , although a scatter of finds at Thorikos suggests that the Minoans may have been interested in the silver ores there ; if so , the island of Kea could have been used as a trading station for their transfer to Crete . |
| 29 | The swords may have been ceremonial , or they may have been used in an acrobatic ritual sword dance . |
| 30 | Robert Olivier suggests that the first tame elephants may have been orphaned calves reared as pets . |