Example sentences of "may have [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A POLICEMAN shot twice in the back early today may have disturbed an IRA bomb plot , senior officers believe . |
| 2 | Some patients may have recorded an episode of faecal incontinence as a bowel movement , before the beginning of retraining . |
| 3 | Spokesman Andrew Davis said : ‘ We believe freak weather conditions may have caused an inversion , but it is difficult to be certain at this stage . |
| 4 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 5 | One corner of England 's dressing room may have resembled an Army field kitchen but this arrangement will now continue for the rest of the Test as England battle for a draw and try to stay fit and well . |
| 6 | The pair produced two eggs in their eyrie in Haweswater , Cumbria , but experts fear twitchers may have breached an exclusion zone set up by the RSPB . |
| 7 | The destruction of nearby Epidauros ( Cavtat ) by the Avars in the mid seventh century , and of Salona , near Split , some thirty-five years earlier , may have contributed an influx of Romanised refugees who swelled the population of a pre-existing community of Slav fisherfolk . |
| 8 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 9 | In Anselm 's choice of Eadmer as his constant companion , Osbern may have seen an assurance that his hopes for the revival of Canterbury 's past might yet be fulfilled . |
| 10 | This may have strengthened an impression that occurs frequently to his critics , one of relentless eccentricity most manifest in forgetfulness . |
| 11 | This problem is not confined to night-workers , but also affects those on early shift ( 6 am. to 2 p.m. ) who may have to allow an hour to get to work . |
| 12 | They realize they may have missed an event . |
| 13 | And , to mix a metaphor , France 's lame ducks may have become an albatross around his neck . |
| 14 | That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs . |
| 15 | 1.27 In any case involving serious and lasting injury , the plaintiff 's solicitors may have to instruct an accountant to calculate past and future pecuniary loss . |
| 16 | You may have cancelled an appointment , disappointing your friend , who now complains loudly and aggressively that you are an uncaring suit-yourself sort , whose commitment to friendship is purely selfish . |
| 17 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 18 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 19 | So how he came to be carrying a cannister of CS gas is being invistigated … he may have had an accomplice . |
| 20 | The letter suggests the two may have had an affair . |
| 21 | Certainly she was desperately trying to raise money , and one John Crosse , with whom she may have had an affair , was involved . |
| 22 | There is a suggestion that S & N directors were unhappy with the standard of diesel cars for senior executives , and the fact there are no diesel Jaguars may have had an influence . |
| 23 | The Orphic idea of Chronos , which may have had an influence on Pythagoras , seems rather like the Iranian idea of Zurvan akarana . |
| 24 | Data from the New Zealand cot death study show that the prevalence of the prone sleeping position decreased before the campaign in New Zealand and suggest that other publicity , such as that generated by fundraising campaigns , may have had an influence . |
| 25 | ‘ This may have been a mixture of excitement , curiosity and immaturity — and the payment of money by the accused may have had an influence , ’ he said . |
| 26 | In association with his technically minded relative , Thomas ( the exact relationship is not known ) , he may have had an iron furnace and hammer-pond at Hamsell Farm , and possibly a smelter and perhaps a coining press in Isleworth at the end of the century . |
| 27 | Thomas Garvine ( possibly an early version of the surnames Garven and Girvan common in Ayrshire at present ) is thought to have been born about 1685 , in or near Kilmarnock , although the Earl of Loudoun 's intervention on his behalf suggests that he may have had an Irvine valley connection . |
| 28 | Drugs may have had an effect . |
| 29 | The warning may have had an effect , but did nothing to dispel feelings among various groups of workers that the Party was not dealing with reform correctly . |
| 30 | So in the past , when we were not shielded from moonlight , it may have had an effect . |