Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film critics may have disagreed on the merits of Batman Returns , but they did seem to reach a consensus on at least one thing . |
| 2 | By the time this column is read the curtain may have fallen on the empire created by George Walker , finally defeated by a £1.5bn debt burden . |
| 3 | Even the most abstract theoretical thesis uses data of some kind , even if it is largely what other people may have said on the topic . |
| 4 | We had seventy at the beginning of last year , I think I may have said on the phone , a hundred a sixty five right now . |
| 5 | Not er not my understanding , the the and I think there is a we may have hit on the perhaps the only the only error in the whole , all the figures in this table , there should be a minus clearly in front of the three point six seven in that table . |
| 6 | The outcome may have turned on the closing arguments of Mr Lozano 's lawyer , Roy Black , who had previously defended William Kennedy Smith on charges of date rape . |
| 7 | Er , we heard yesterday from some of your phone calls , and indeed we heard , and some of us may have seen on the television news on Wednesday evening , the desperate plight that many Iraqi civilians are now in . |
| 8 | Ideally , take another flight straight away so that you can master any difficulties you may have experienced on the first flight . |
| 9 | John may have spoken on the marriage bill on 22 April , however ; he would have been especially interested , because of difficulties over his intended marriage to his cousin , Eleanor Hanham , with whom he eloped in 1629 . |
| 10 | It is thought one pin may have failed on the El Al flight , causing an engine to tear free of its mountings and hit the second engine as it fell . |
| 11 | I may have embarked on the impossible , ’ Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope on 9 November 1941 . |
| 12 | Most ‘ normal ’ trilobites have a more or less horizontal rim around the forward margin , which may have rested on the sediment surface . |
| 13 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 14 | When the first coat is dry , lightly sand with fine glasspaper or wet and dry paper to remove any nibs or particles of dust which may have settled on the surface . |
| 15 | But Mr Rafsanjani is exposed to accusations that he is departing from the policies set out by the leader of Iran 's Islamic revolution , the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and may have seized on the Mujahideen attacks to demonstrate that he is not selling out the imam 's legacy . |