Example sentences of "may have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |
| 2 | Equally , while the procedure which produced the Enham texts may have been similar to those responsible for some of Æthelstan 's codes and I Edmund , the promulgation of archiepiscopal admonitions as royal decrees is also reminiscent of those issued by Henry II after the synod of Dortmund in 1005 . |
| 3 | When the first-night audience studied their printed librettos , they may have been intrigued by the curious frontispiece . |
| 4 | In this context the 1912 Minority Report on Divorce may have been right in its opinion that ‘ a blow in one class of life might not be the unforgiveable injury it would be in another ’ . |
| 5 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 6 | His attempts to turn RIC men from soldiers into policemen may have been appropriate in the largely peaceful Ireland of the 1890s , but when the RIC was called upon in 1919 to resume its military character in order to defeat the IRA it was to prove unequal to the task . |
| 7 | That recipe may have been appropriate in the past when personal consumption was largely met from the output of labour-intensive British industries . |
| 8 | It seems that Rastafari , reggae and toasting may have been crucial in asserting the cultural dominance of the Jamaican element within the Caribbean community in Britain . |
| 9 | Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions . |
| 10 | It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy . |
| 11 | Cnut may have been familiar with institutions of an English type . |
| 12 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 13 | Most of the people responsible for Labour 's policies acknowledge that those which may have been relevant in the 1980s were disastrous and should be consigned to the rubbish heap . |
| 14 | The government 's motive in attacking enclosures was not simply disinterested concern for justice for the poor , although Wolsey may have been anxious about their welfare . |
| 15 | In the face of mounting political and industrial unrest , Asquith may have been anxious to head-off further confrontation with feminists . |
| 16 | These may have been possible in the days of full staffing and adequate resources . |
| 17 | Systems comparable to this operated in the east , in Ugarit and the land of the Hatti , where ‘ guilds ’ of artisans were able to pursue their various callings in the town bazaars , and some development along these lines may have been possible in Minoan Crete . |
| 18 | Major oceans would form the most long-lasting boundaries defining the provinces , but even these were not permanent , and migrations may have been possible in early geological periods when the distribution of land and sea was different . |
| 19 | Some 40 per cent of the rural population have no access to a car so that the problem of claiming a benefit that may have been straightforward in town , is very pressing in the country . |
| 20 | George may have been small in stature , but he was a giant of a man to all who knew him . |
| 21 | The new Tory ministry under Harley may have been successful in changing the previous Whig majority in Parliament into a Tory one in the General Election of 1710 ; but the furore unleashed by the Sacheverell affair meant that a Parliament dominated by High Tories was returned , which was much more extreme than a moderate like Harley would have wished . |
| 22 | The new comic tone was radical rather than left-wing , what is more , which may have been salutary to critics who glibly confuse social reform with socialism . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Hallucigenia may have been one of these . |
| 25 | Fellows , Morton and Clayton , the famous canal carrying company , may have been one of the prime movers in the business . |
| 26 | Secondly , Coleman may have been one of the numerous band of teachers , at present out of fashion , who put their main energies into what after all may be considered the prime function of a teaching institution — teaching . |
| 27 | There is also the great hill-figure , the Cerne Giant , which has been identified as Hercules and may have been one of many such figures . |
| 28 | Another reason for the relatively slow acceptance of the term counterurbanization in Britain may be the fact that Britain may have been one of the last developed countries to experience the phenomenon . |
| 29 | She may have been one of the Bristol Seekers from whom many Quakers at this time were recruited . |
| 30 | It may have been one of the shortest epics on record — just seven minutes — but you wo n't hear any Armagh supporters claiming they were short-changed ! |