Example sentences of "may have been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 2 | For example , symptom diaries that have been completed in blocks of different coloured ink arouse a suspicion that the patient may have been completing the diary in blocks of days rather than daily . |
| 3 | It was June ; it was Bexhill-on-Sea ; he may have been reading the county scores . |
| 4 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 5 | At this stage you may also be in contact with the social services who may have been supporting the new client for some time . |
| 6 | Some fruit may have been given an artificial protective coating , so it 's best to wash them in warm soapy water and rinse them well before use . |
| 7 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 8 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 9 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 10 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 11 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 12 | It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader . |
| 13 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 14 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 15 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 16 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 17 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |
| 18 | Reporters had from 8.30am to 10am to write up the meeting or function they may have been covering the night before , or else they re-wrote stories from the morning edition of the Regina Leader-Post . |
| 19 | His mistake may have been to assume the election was won before it was fought . |
| 20 | When he came to the College , Coleman was presumably almost totally ignorant of veterinary matters ( although he may have been studying the subject during the ‘ interregnum ’ ) . |
| 21 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 22 | It is likely that the motive for the new designs may have been to enhance the dignity of the King and to stress his magnificence ; it is impossible to say if there was any deliberate intention of claiming additional status for him , or if this was a subsequent interpretation of the imagery . |
| 23 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 24 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 25 | But he may have been observing the traditional superstition that it is unlucky for the bridegroom to see the bride on the eve of her wedding . |
| 26 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 27 | Dr Jaeger may have been considered an eccentric , but the Rational Dress Society , which won so many adherents at the International Health Exhibition in 1884 , continued the battle on broader lines . |
| 28 | This may be a genuine statement — in fact the seller 's own objective may have been to gain a foothold in the buyer 's business . |
| 29 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |
| 30 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |