Example sentences of "may have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These salt concentrations may have been increased due to air pollution and ‘ salty ’ mortar used during earlier restoration work . |
| 2 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 3 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 4 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 5 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 6 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 7 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 8 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 9 | The western marches of Offa 's kingdom may have been experiencing renewed British harassment . |
| 10 | A British Cox 's apple may have been sprayed 12 times and dipped in fungicide before it reaches your fruit bowl . |
| 11 | Where the main constructive waves are swell waves which may have been generated hundreds and even thousands of kilometres away and travelled on as free waves , it is quite likely that the local resultant wind has a far smaller part in the orientation of coastal forms . |
| 12 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 13 | The long-sought ‘ killer application ’ — aka the next Lotus — may have been born last week : Silicon Valley start-up Arbor Software was at the NT Pavilion at Comdex in Chicago showing off its multi-dimensional spreadsheet . |
| 14 | Two thirds of those with baseline hypoxaemia had been born preterm and may have been suffering mild , clinically unapparent chronic lung disease . |
| 15 | The long back legs of such hunters look highly suitable for running , and as they did so the long tail may have been held erect as a kind of counter-balance ( see p. 116 ) . |
| 16 | In terms of the survival of the regime , such a policy may have been deemed necessary . |
| 17 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 18 | You must bear in mind that you are dealing only with probabilities and — who knows ? — the examiner may have been changed next time . |
| 19 | It is this factor which may be significant ; otherwise the act of breaking and defacement , common to most of the sculptured stones , may have been considered effective in destroying the pagan influence . |
| 20 | An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner . |
| 21 | Of course , gardens have long been maintained in conjunction with historic houses ; what is new is the desire to rescue and restore gardens that may have been abandoned many years ago , as attractions in their own right . |
| 22 | These men were in touch with Edward Balliol , the heir of the Scottish king dispossessed by Edward I , and they may have been planning some move to recover their position in either England or Scotland . |
| 23 | Although there may have been surviving some notion of the tradition of ordered government from the ancient world , in actuality Rome had no strong , centralized government since classical times . |