Example sentences of "may have been [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cnut may have been familiar with institutions of an English type . |
| 2 | The passengers may have been ablaze with diamonds , but the ships themselves were lit at every porthole and festooned with lights , as they moved relentlessly through the dark Atlantic waters like brilliant spaceships intent on terrestrial encounters . |
| 3 | A spokesman admitted some personnel may have been unhappy with a process of ‘ radical ’ change , but insisted : ‘ The vast majority of people would not have recognised the description in that article . ’ |
| 4 | The early Malays may have learnt the ‘ Malay knot ’ made by birds , perhaps by copying the animals , while their medicinal knowledge may have been common with that of other species : monkeys in the Malay Peninsula eat jelly surrounding the germinating seeds of Scaphium spp . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Part 2 may have been concerned with the kinetics of the reactions between hydrogen isotopes under the conditions attainable . |
| 7 | In 1385–6 Lewyn was superintending building works for the Crown at Berwick-on-Tweed , and about the same time may have been concerned with the great new donjon at Warkworth for the Earl of Northumberland . |
| 8 | In this way the client begins to realize that their former ‘ resting state ’ may have been fraught with muscular tensions serving to exacerbate the general experience of anxiety and stress . |
| 9 | An agreeable contrast is furnished by the light-hearted productions of an exquisite artist who worked with , and may have been identical with , a potter Amasis ( fig. 56 ) . |
| 10 | , John ( fl. 1364–1398 ) , principal master mason to Durham Cathedral and the Palatinate , may have been identical with John ‘ Loewyne ’ who was a working mason on repairs to Westminster Palace in June 1351 . |