Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] may have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Running the Perth centre is British-born — for whom emigrating may have saved his life . |
| 2 | Hackers talking about their preoccupation may have glazed eyes , they can see the true Light at the end of their programming tunnel . |
| 3 | Years of my life may have passed in this enforced study of wallpaper . |
| 4 | The generic mixings and mutations , however , towards which television may have an aesthetic and an economic inclination do seem to provide the grounds for specific forms of parody . |
| 5 | News of their ill-luck may have dampened the post-match celebrations at Branch Road last night after Derry rattled up the highest score of the round , 61–17 against north west neighbours Omagh . |
| 6 | In this case , however , the strength of the mats and the scale of their deposition may have overwhelmed the benthos , so that the laminations were preserved by physical means . |
| 7 | Acoustically , the Takamine has a fairly flat response , with no boomy bass or tinny treble tendencies at all , though the evenness of its tone may have been achieved at the expense of some character . |
| 8 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 9 | Queen Philippa died in August 1369 , and the removal of her influence may have hastened a deterioration in his character which became all too apparent in the 1370s . |
| 10 | A BRITISH tourist shot dead in New Orleans on the first day of her holiday may have died because her boyfriend refused a mugger 's demand for money . |
| 11 | The coroner Nicholas Gardner said the Metro driver 's attempts to regain control of her car may have made matters worse . |
| 12 | Mr Saunders has already been charged with the theft of the £5.2m , raising the possibility that this part of his trial may have to be delayed until Mr Ward is extradited . |
| 13 | However , that part of his brain may have been damaged and unable to give an accurate reading . |
| 14 | He was a wealthy man , and although some of his wealth may have come from the profits of war , he benefited substantially from Edward 's patronage . |
| 15 | Furthermore , if two parties ( usually , but not necessarily , husband and wife ) make ‘ mutual wills ’ , with identical ultimate beneficiaries , the death of one of the parties without alteration of his will may have the effect of binding the survivor to make no alteration , in the sense that a trust will arise , under which the terms of the will must be fulfilled . |
| 16 | His alcoholism apparently alienated his former writing partner ; his admirable disinclination to offer any public denial of his homosexuality may have compromised his potential as a solo performer ; and he battled for several years with the throat cancer which finally killed him . |
| 17 | The hostility of his reception may have daunted other administrators from recruiting black players , but there was a gradual incursion of blacks into baseball in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 18 | As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died . |
| 19 | From the economic point of view , the problem is that in most cases the US antitrust process is concerned with deciding whether conduct has been illegal , rather than with the appraisal of the economic consequences of whatever conduct may have taken place . |
| 20 | No one has given a completely convincing explanation of what Mazzocchi may have meant by ‘ mezz'Arie ’ . |
| 21 | What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm . |
| 22 | One of the reasons for Champneys 's move to Holland with his apprentice may have been his bankruptcy in 1766 . |
| 23 | Both Offa 's dislike of the men of Kent and the extent of the territory now coming under his control may have been factors in the situation in the late 780s , but in 798 Coenwulf and Leo were deploying these arguments selectively and in a way which compromises their validity as single explanations of what was probably a complex situation . |
| 24 | He said exactly what happened would never be known , but two children in their car may have distracted their father who was driving . |
| 25 | His interest in Edmund Ironside and Edward the Martyr is thus the first of several indications that attitudes to religion in his reign may have had distinct political overtones . |
| 26 | Marxism 's standing Hegel on his head may have reversed his idealism , but it did not change the mode of operation of a conceptual system which remains collusively Eurocentric . |
| 27 | When , a few weeks later , Labour overturned a large Tory majority in a by-election at East Fulham , this was widely seen as evidence of the popularity of pacifism — despite the fact that Labour 's candidate , John Wilmot , had been more concerned to appeal to Liberal supporters of the League than to whatever sentiment may have existed in Fulham in favour of war resistance . |
| 28 | In addition , some painkillers are ruled out ( such as epidural ) , because they take too long to administer and take effect , so your plans for your birth may have to be altered at the last minute . |
| 29 | Wasps still show the stages by which colonialism may have developed . |