Example sentences of "may [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a woman in an abusive relationship might be too frightened of her partner to intervene , and may have been threatened to prevent her telling the police or the court what happened . |
| 2 | These protests may have been ignored had it not been for the enthusiasm of Hans-Dietrich Genscher for EMU : ‘ the creation of a single European monetary zone , with a European central bank , constitutes the economically indispensable centrepiece of a European single market ’ . |
| 3 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 4 | They may have been intending to talk about reform of the Labour Party constitution , but what ordinary trade unionists heard was senior members of the Party talking as if they were ashamed of the trade union connection . |
| 5 | Parliament may have been intending to legislate in such all-embracing terms . |
| 6 | Girls who secretly knew that they wanted a baby , or who may have been trying to have one , feel pleased and excited . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe he may have been trying to contact me . |
| 8 | The castle may have been built to fortify , but it no longer has a defence against attack from Highland wind and rain . |
| 9 | This blockbuster may have been intended to rival Gone with the Wind but the result is sub-Dallas , sub-Dynasty . |
| 10 | In some cases bodies were covered with red ochre , which may have been intended to simulate blood , in the hope of averting physical extinction . |
| 11 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 12 | The curved opening behind the body of the animal may have been intended to allow easy gripping of the blade when opening it out . |
| 13 | A political as well as a religious Independent , Blackwell 's appointment may have been intended to reassure the army , since the war treasurers themselves were London aldermen of Presbyterian persuasion . |
| 14 | Brezhnev 's scheme for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to reassure India of the Soviet desire for peace in India 's vicinity . |
| 15 | The presence of such items in a church may have been intended to increase popular respect for the monarchy . |
| 16 | A significant detail is the forked ends of the severed heads which may have been intended to suggest the immediate growth of two replacements , as in the classical version of the myth . |
| 17 | This offensive took place between Marivan and Sardasht on the night of 19–20 October 1983 and may have been intended to cut the lines of communication between the Iraqi forces and the KDPI . |
| 18 | The selected garnet had to be split and then shaped to fit the cells and patterns ; alternatively , the cells may have been shaped to take the pre-cut garnets . |
| 19 | There has been speculation that the body was booby-trapped before it left Awiel , and may have been timed to explode in mid-air . |
| 20 | The mischief alleged is that offenders were allowed to commit further offences which would or may have been obviated had they been arrested earlier . |
| 21 | In this way the move to more fertile soils may have been made to improve productivity per person and increase output for similar or less effort . |
| 22 | Such would obviously be so in the case of a binding compromise ; but even where there is no consideration for the payment , it may have been made to close the transaction and so be irrecoverable . |
| 23 | The Lanx may have been made to commemorate the visit of Julian the Apostate to the shrine in 363 AD . |
| 24 | Yet Nixon continued to maintain his innocence : on 22 May , he stated that " I took no part in , nor was I aware of any subsequent effort that may have been made to cover up Watergate . " |
| 25 | As children we may have been made to feel inadequate , silly or useless because we were never praised . |
| 26 | Avoid salads — they may have been prepared using suspect water |
| 27 | Chapman may have been seeking to ease the pressure on his players , but if he did entertain hopes of the Double , they were dashed when James injured a knee at Upton Park over Easter . |
| 28 | Given a tree not in the base , determining which sequence of transformations may have been applied to generate this tree . |
| 29 | In the Yale study subjects were interviewed before and after a search , unlike previous surveys where subjects may have been asked to recall or generalize on their use of the catalogue after the event . |
| 30 | Or he may have been stripped to delay any identification , I suppose . |