Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 2 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 3 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 4 | I may have been absent or something . |
| 5 | ‘ I may have been over-enthusiastic . |
| 6 | I may have been wrong proportionately as many times as the result of an amniocentesis turns out to have been wrong : that is , being wrong in both cases amounts to a hypothetical possibility , but is not normal . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , I may have been angry when I found out but … ’ |
| 8 | I 'll admit I may have been naïve … ’ |
| 9 | If , like me , you have learned that a certain amount of filamentous algae is an inevitable fact of modern pondkeeping , you may have been tolerant of its growth during the summer months . |
| 10 | You may have been single-minded about racing , but I was also tied into my work . |
| 11 | If you have ever looked at the ingredients list on your bag of Koi pellets , you may have been puzzled by the high ash content . |
| 12 | And dispersing the audience 's attention among nine separate TV sets is a sure way of dispersing any atmosphere you may have been lucky enough to set up . |
| 13 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 14 | She may have been one of the Bristol Seekers from whom many Quakers at this time were recruited . |
| 15 | she may have been unconmscious before she went into the water . |
| 16 | Inwardly she may have been nervous , outwardly she appeared calm , relaxed and ready to have fun . |
| 17 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 18 | She may have been happier , |
| 19 | By allowing Tepilit to engage in the formalities of gift exchange , she may have been able to observe at close quarters how it worked , but she was also entering into the drama . |
| 20 | We may have been poor and ignorant in Glasgow but ratting on our friends was something we left to the narks , the narks and the prosperous classes . |
| 21 | Because it , in a job that ca n't be done in isolation , to complete this procedure or procedures , we may have been plural , needs er , consultation with er , certainly with Simon 's division in quite a substantial way . |
| 22 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
| 23 | We may have been able to buy our departmental systems from a single vendor . |
| 24 | So whereas in the past we may have been able to think of single user types and single solutions to meet those users . |
| 25 | And whereas with departmental approach we may have been satisfied with the ability to do extracts down from our corporate mainframe systems in the enterprise approach we 'll look for proper and full integration of the mainframe as an integral part of the environment . |
| 26 | On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months . |
| 27 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |
| 28 | When the first-night audience studied their printed librettos , they may have been intrigued by the curious frontispiece . |
| 29 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 30 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |