Example sentences of "may have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While temples built in the later eighteenth century may have stood in a naturalistic landscape inspired by the paintings of Claude , earlier garden buildings almost certainly stood in more formal settings , and fragments of avenues or long overgrown yew and beech hedges may remain . |
| 2 | In general we are our own worst enemies when it comes to enlarging and reinforcing our fears , so that what may have begun as a minor apprehension can escalate into a problem of mammoth proportions . |
| 3 | It may have begun as a seasonal steading , only later being permanently occupied . |
| 4 | At least , he may have begun in a monastery , but in the event he took orders and was for years a junior pastor somewhere in Worcestershire . |
| 5 | Later the patient recalled that her spells may have begun after a head injury in childhood . |
| 6 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |
| 7 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 8 | ‘ He tells me he may have to go into a rest home . |
| 9 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 10 | ‘ I may have to go to a meeting . |
| 11 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 12 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 13 | Indeed it may have increased as a result of the general tendency to centralize health , educational and welfare services and even shops in key villages or other local centres . |
| 14 | I guess they may have fallen off a lorry ? |
| 15 | The coins were found in a fairly straight line , indicating that they may have fallen from a torn purse . |
| 16 | Later it may have declined to a local field access path in the thirteenth century , been re-aligned by enclosure commissioners in the eighteenth century and turned into a dual-carriage trunk road in this century . |
| 17 | This former hot-spring activity at high elevations on the volcanoes could indicate that the region was more geothermally active in the past ; the activity may have declined as a result of waning heat sources . |
| 18 | New techniques and organization of land may have led to a better diet . |
| 19 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 20 | These factors may have led to a decrease in the exposure of the colonic mucosa to carcinogens and may have protected the colon and negated any effect of the modest increases in the proliferative zone in the distal colon . |
| 21 | Instead they may have formed in a manner similar to many Cordilleran batholiths , from crust that is basaltic ( density 3.0Mgm -3 ) and does not include Precambrian basement-type material . |
| 22 | Marsh 's absence may have contributed to a disappointing first-day crowd of 7708 , but those present witnessed an interesting day , Australia reaching 222 for 4 , with the prolific Boon again to the fore . |
| 23 | Keep ship 's papers and passports in a safe , but easily accessible place : you may have to leave in a hurry . |
| 24 | But Dixon , who spent nine years at Stamford Bridge , may have to settle for a place on the subs ' bench as he continues his return from a back injury . |
| 25 | ‘ Northern Ireland may have faded as a football force since the break-up of the 1986 World Cup finals side — and the rebuilding process has been painful . |
| 26 | Two periods , 1750 – 70 and the 1780s , saw especially sharp declines , although the generally high level of economic activity in the latter may have compensated to a degree with fuller employment . |
| 27 | But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again . |
| 28 | The consequence of what Nicholls may have intended as a politic and eirenical statement was suspension , degradation , and imprisonment . |
| 29 | Some have intimated that these contacts , while not illegal , raise suspicions that the superfund 's huge cache for money may have turned into a political slush-fund , spread around to fertilise the candidates of loyal Republicans . |
| 30 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |