Example sentences of "may have be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may have been intermittent recoveries , but the bulk of the evidence ( often intractable and indirect ) suggests that until around 1500 they were only temporary . |
| 2 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 3 | There may have been good reasons of prudence in all this . |
| 4 | There may have been other prisoners . |
| 5 | This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints . |
| 6 | There may have been other churches of lower status on such estates as well . |
| 7 | It could well be that some of the summit surfaces of the Hercynian blocks are Eogene pediplains , while the weathering responsible for the formation of tors may have been tropical weathering of the same date . |
| 8 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 9 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 10 | That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends . |
| 11 | Indeed , sometimes it is not very useful , as there may have been long periods without any clear artistic developments , such as the Roman empire of the fourth and fifth centuries or the early medieval period . |
| 12 | During recent times , the main goal of many firms may have been long term survival . |
| 13 | Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . |
| 14 | Another half-exception may have been Bonar Law . |
| 15 | These Hittites may have been early migrants from the Hittite Empire in Turkey ( founded about 1800 BC ) . |
| 16 | Patients in their study initially had no clinical or echocardiographic evidence of heart disease and they suggest that the QT interval abnormalities may have been early indicators of alcohol-induced myocardial toxicity . |
| 17 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 18 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 19 | There are several references to what may have been congenital syphilis . |
| 20 | The vendor may have been Pantell S.A. The vendor may have been Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a U.K. company , on whose behalf Pantell S.A. was , under an agreement dated 1 March 1988 , authorised to sell Euramco shares to the investing public on a commission basis . |
| 21 | Besides , there is good evidence that the crocodiles of that time were much faster-moving reptiles than their dinosaur contemporaries — indeed , the ancestors of modern crocodiles may have been nimble land-animals , since to this day crocodiles have an ankle structure typical of a rapid terrestrial carnivore . |
| 22 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 23 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 24 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 25 | These may have been real people , but they were n't real Nazis . |
| 26 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 27 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 28 | Isaac and Samuel may have been rabbinical teachers themselves , as well as patrons of other teachers . |
| 29 | Although the quantities are different , the source , fall-off curves and distribution of greywacké whetstones ( black dots ) and the neolithic axes are very similar , emphasising how the source of stone for the whetstones may have been glacial erratics . |
| 30 | The patient with chronic pain is often mentally depressed and there may have been adverse experiences such as sexual abuse or threatening life events . |