Example sentences of "may have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of active swimming habits may have rendered the complex suture lines superfluous . |
| 2 | This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once . |
| 3 | ARDS may have lost the Irish Soccer Cup final to Bangor this season , but their swim minnows made sure Bangor were n't going to do a double at the Grove Pool last weekend . |
| 4 | On the other hand , small temples like the one at Gournia and those towns , like palaikastro , which apparently managed without temples , may have organized the agricultural production of their own estates near by on a scale that was commensurate with their size and rate of population growth . |
| 5 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
| 6 | The Iceni may have harried the northern boundary of the Trinovantes , with freedom to raid and loot , and the Regini provided the Roman fleet with an important haven in Bosham , from which the army launched its attack along the coast to the west . |
| 7 | You may have noticed the happy ending came rather pat . |
| 8 | In the case of South Mountains , synkinematic intrusions and associated high magmatic fluid pressures may have raised the brittle to ductile transition zone to between 5 and 10km depth . |
| 9 | Staff of private establishments in 1990 may have overestimated the actual disability of their residents , or the methods of care in these homes may lead to increased dependency . |
| 10 | The present geological and palaeoecological evidence suggests that there is a possibility that some taxa with northern distributions today may have survived the entire last glaciation in parts of the Outer Hebrides ( cf. |
| 11 | Reading Crown Court heard eccentric loner Mr Clark , of Langley , Berks , may have inflicted the fatal injuries himself . |
| 12 | Behind the scenes they may have affected the prime minister directly . |
| 13 | But all these factors may have affected the actual form of upper segments of the profile . |
| 14 | Stock exchanges and complex financial instruments may have decoupled the legal notion of ownership from this commitment , but the underlying principle endures . |
| 15 | RNA instability may have caused the low level expression of protein , so we generated a deletion mutant that eliminated 0.5 kb of 3' untranslated sequences of the cDNA ( Figure 3b , plasmid IV ) . |
| 16 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 17 | This may have caused the general tendency for films with a large amount of fixed information to be judged as distractors and hence the overall correlation with values of B. |
| 18 | It 's thought that a comet colliding with the earth may have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs . |
| 19 | Events of January may have caused the Scottish Office to reconsider its stance . |
| 20 | Vagrants from these populations may have explored the Southern Ocean and landed on some of the cool temperate islands , but there is no convincing evidence for their reaching Antarctica . |
| 21 | Metaponto , bordered by golden sandy beaches , is such an ancient town where , according to legend , they may have built the famed and historic Trojan Horse . |
| 22 | I mean it may have pleased the Irish government a bit but it 's got implications both domestically and internationally . |
| 23 | If the child does not comply you may have to repeat the three-minute interval several times . |
| 24 | In France and Spain , therefore , notices of medieval and Renaissance music on record are usually written by critics who may have studied the historical performance of the repertory in question less than the performers whose work is being reviewed . |
| 25 | Mr. Gardiner argued that Walton J. erred in a number of respects although he may have reached the right answer by the wrong route . |
| 26 | While Basquiat may have reached the Metropolitan and music television , the exhibition 's tour after the Whitney run seems far less promising . |
| 27 | However much Cnut may have played the Christian king , he was , like other rulers , willing to turn a blind eye to church teaching when it suited him . |
| 28 | Perhaps as a result of Syrian influence , companies of eunuch priests may have inhabited the Minoan temples ; in a later period , it is known that eunuch priests served Cybele and Attis in Anatolia . |
| 29 | Inspector Mick Barry , of Witham police , said at first officers thought the two older youths may have led the nine-year-old on but it turned out he played a full part in all the crimes . |
| 30 | Although there is no evidence that Horace Walpole ( who died on 2 March 1797 ) ever attended College meetings it is pleasant to think that he may have formed the undiscovered link between Lord Camden and the as yet unlocated Veterinary College . |