Example sentences of "they may have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
2 | Obviously he was worried lest they may have sustained some damage by coming into contact with my nasty hard ribs . |
3 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
4 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
5 | They may have received some college training , participated in in-service training provided by government agencies or employers , or received no specific training for their jobs . |
6 | That they may have obtained some of their supplies of ivory from that quarter is suggested by finds of this material at the intermediate entrepot of Bahrain . |
7 | To pay the wages , they may have to realise some of their assets . |
8 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
9 | So they may have planted some more damning ‘ evidence ’ somewhere in my flat . |
10 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
11 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
12 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
13 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
14 | They may have had some children . |
15 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |
16 | Treasury should be followed , but they may have taken that view precisely because , so far as B was concerned , it was a case of questions being put to a person who had been charged . |
17 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
18 | The presence of the therapist can encourage partners to express their anxieties , needs , and wishes to each other , whereas previously they may have found this extremely difficult or even impossible . |
19 | But the magistrates chairman said the offence was so serious , they may have to send both men to jail . |
20 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
21 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
22 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
23 | Alternatively , they may have experienced some risk , but only the lower levels which characterize the flat lower part of the relationship shown in Figure 3.3 . |
24 | But , he said , they may have to prove that to the electorate . |