Example sentences of "may [verb] [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 2 | Some fruit may have been given an artificial protective coating , so it 's best to wash them in warm soapy water and rinse them well before use . |
| 3 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 4 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 5 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 6 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 7 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 8 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 9 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 10 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 11 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 12 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 13 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 14 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 15 | Dr Jaeger may have been considered an eccentric , but the Rational Dress Society , which won so many adherents at the International Health Exhibition in 1884 , continued the battle on broader lines . |
| 16 | This may be a genuine statement — in fact the seller 's own objective may have been to gain a foothold in the buyer 's business . |
| 17 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |