Example sentences of "may [verb] be some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 2 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 3 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 4 | Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension . |
| 5 | I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part . |
| 6 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 7 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 8 | There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested . |
| 9 | There may have been some generic connection between the Anatolian deity and the Minoan deity whose symbol was also the double-axe . |