Example sentences of "[det] may have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle was much more the happy-go-lucky extrovert whereas Daddy was shy and reserved , but that may have been due in part , at least , to the burdens he carried . |
| 2 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 3 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 4 | It was only the office holding of the Stanleys which was threatened , but even that may have been enough to drive them into opposition to Edward by 1470 . |
| 5 | That may have been true , but for the moment it 's irrelevant . ’ |
| 6 | A few years ago that may have been true , but over the past couple of years , we have reduced the commission charge by 10–20 per cent . |
| 7 | That may have been true until the current recession , but the hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong about the present circumstances . |
| 8 | This may have been due to a reluctance to suck more money out of a generous population , or to the usual delays in carrying out orders from Moscow . |
| 9 | This may have been due partly to prudence . |
| 10 | This may have been due to an accident , but two Ju88s of 5/LG 1 were badly damaged over Malta , presumably hit by A.A. fire and force-landed at Catania on their return . |
| 11 | This may have been due to the tendency of the former to attract in young people , leading to net gains by migration among 15–24-year-olds ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 12 | To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes . |
| 13 | This may have been due to the support of Steel-Maitland who was a founder member before he became Party Chairman and who later served on its committee on mental health . |
| 14 | This may have been due to the long delays in the submission and execution of spot trades caused by the overloading of the NYSE order routing system . |
| 15 | This may have been due to the fact that preparations for hosting the 1966 World Cup Finals were under way and there were fears that , as the English game came under greater international scrutiny , football hooliganism could damage the nation 's prestige . |
| 16 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 17 | To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes . |
| 18 | The effect of this may have been beneficial to some of the British potters , especially in Oxfordshire where good quality imitations of provincial samian vessels were produced . |
| 19 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 20 | This may have been one reason why the national body was , in the first instance , entitled the Committee for Local Authority Higher education and presumably why its membership includes a representative from the Association of Principals of Colleges , a body broadly representative of those further education establishments other than polytechnics and colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 21 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 22 | Hull , too , suffered from the poor relations between England and the Hanse in the second half of the fifteenth century , and this may have been one factor which affected the trade of York , which had used Hull as a centre for exports . |
| 23 | This may have been one of the purposes behind some of Cnut 's actions , as has been suggested in connection with his interest in Ælfheah . |
| 24 | This may have been correct , but no alternative was suggested . |
| 25 | Whilst this may have been commonplace in the old days as vendors moved from technology to technology there is little need for it now , as Monotype are adequately demonstrating . |
| 26 | Chamberlain pointed out that the relationship between maturity and volume was not monotonic , with volume initially increasing , and then decreasing as delivery became imminent , and this may have been responsible for the positive relationship . |
| 27 | Had it been the form that all agencies were not mentioned , this may have been acceptable , but to be forced to listen to a litany of other agency names — not least Barkers Trident — without a single mention of our own was deplorable . |
| 28 | This may have been true of strict Evangelicals , particularly the Calvinists , the dissenting groups such as the Plymouth Brethren , but in the population of the cities where churchgoing had fallen steeply , fire and brimstone were losing their power to terrify . |
| 29 | This may have been true at one time , when the vast majority of commuters were middle-class , but it does not apply in the postwar period when large numbers of commuters have been ‘ reluctant ’ villagers , constrained by the availability of cheap housing to living in the countryside ( Pahl 1965b ) . |
| 30 | This may have been true also of part at least of Surrey and conceivably part at least of the kingdom of the East Saxons . |