Example sentences of "may [adv] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , it can not be ignored that Marco did n't have many options , since Eddie was about to kill him , and Marco 's actions were in self-defence : I think that Marco may only have beaten Eddie up had he not drawn the knife , but not killed him . |
| 2 | Elves , like dragons , are embedded deeply in several different traditions of North-West Europe , and the inconsistencies of those traditions may only have made Tolkien itch to create a Zusammenhang . |
| 3 | Wear Valley Council may only have promised Stanley United FC two footballs ( Gadfly March 4 ) but the hidden agenda looks more promising . |
| 4 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 5 | Advice and support at this time could aim to minimise the chances of a girl returning to an unhappy discordant home and to parents with whom she may largely have lost touch . |
| 6 | Yet grants are not keeping pace and Mrs Pritchard feels that hard-up local authorities may soon have to reduce funding . |
| 7 | If you 're a composer , you may already have composed music for an AV production of some sort . |
| 8 | Some of these compounds may already have had metabolism in the liver or small intestine , or both , before reaching the colon by biliary excretion . |
| 9 | ( He may just have over-estimated demand ; but we think that that is unlikely . |
| 10 | ‘ We may still have to make penalty payments or let some of the existing agencies run out their contracts and buy airtime . ’ |
| 11 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |
| 12 | You may possibly have heard talk to the effect that I was a damned good scrum half . |
| 13 | Usually , these men 's urine flow will be abnormally slow , even in the absence of prostatic enlargement , and they may always have had difficulty urinating in a public place , according to Graham Watson , who runs a prostatitis clinic at the London Institute of Urology . |
| 14 | Rather less simply , some people close to Crédit Lyonnais think it may also have lent money to Florio Fiorini , a Swiss-based Italian associated with Mr Parretti . |
| 15 | They may also have rejected possibilities of other relationships . |
| 16 | If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage . |
| 17 | They may also have to devote energy searching for services to which the child has a right . |
| 18 | You may also have to configure DECNET for LIFESPAN . |
| 19 | These expenditures may also have generated inflation and wasted talent which could have been used more effectively in resolving more pressing social and industrial problems . |
| 20 | You may also have to state facts which are obvious to you , but not to cousins who have not seen the family for several years . |
| 21 | He believed they may also have exploded blast bombs . |
| 22 | She may also have anticipated trouble with her school managers . |
| 23 | It may also have taken business away from John Smiths , because one enters its sales area straight off the street , whereas Smiths ' comparable sections are well above pavement level . |
| 24 | You may also have paid Class 3 voluntary contributions at some point in your life in order to maintain your contributions record . |
| 25 | The Goldsmiths ' Company may also have paid attention to other claims upon them . |
| 26 | They may also have had misgivings about the power and influence of residential staff over children , and the potential abuses which could and sometimes do occur . |
| 27 | A number of firms may also have had problems in achieving the synergies expected of newly formed structures . |
| 28 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 29 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 30 | Before that stage , the program may also have provided instructions to encourage you to copy files on to a blank disc in drive A : , to ‘ please insert this in another machine ’ and type A:Share . |