Example sentences of "may have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our culture may have rendered natural selection relatively irrelevant . |
| 2 | The hostility of his reception may have daunted other administrators from recruiting black players , but there was a gradual incursion of blacks into baseball in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 3 | If this was a late addition , one that went into the quarto at the last minute , the printer may have lost four lines of type in the process — or even cut them in order to be able to finish Act 3 tidily on the last page of a quarto sheet : the very next page , as it happens , which left scarcely any room for manoeuvre . |
| 4 | New land-working agreements frequently had to be negotiated , and enclosure into small fields for peasant cultivation may have replaced open land and the strip system of some villages on the coastal plain . |
| 5 | In London and Birmingham particularly , regional policy since 1945 may have hastened this decentralization of industry as industrial-development certificates were required from central government before larger manufacturing developments could be implemented . |
| 6 | None of the four can be definitely linked with Gloucester in the 1470s , although the Calthorpes may have kept some connections with him . |
| 7 | None of the four can be definitely linked with Gloucester in the 1470s , although the Calthorpes may have kept some connections with him . |
| 8 | We may have to close some roads to traffic and make them pedestrian only . |
| 9 | The high rate of diagnostic revision ( 25% ) based on this independent , blind histopathological review may have overdiagnosed definite Crohn 's disease but in many the final diagnosis was uncertain and labelled as indeterminate colitis . |
| 10 | I think the steep angle may have saved many lives . |
| 11 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 12 | As you may have noticed other debates have attracted rather more publicity this week , but the theme of our congress is jobs and recovery because jobs and recovery is the most important issue for our members and for Britain . |
| 13 | You may have noticed that age differences between pupils in the first class at school can be as great as one year , sometimes more . |
| 14 | The reader may be familiar with aspects of the individualistic account sketched in Table 1.1 : in particular , you may have noticed similar explanations of poverty or industrial conflict in the press or on television . |
| 15 | Early pupils were mainly youths who had just completed general schooling , and medical students , who may have served some years of apprenticeship to a surgeon , and to whom the contrast between an overcrowded surgical profession , and the developing veterinary profession , favoured the latter . |
| 16 | Reception staff at hotels based in cities and large towns may have to persuade unwanted persons loitering in the reception lounge to move on and leave the hotel ; the right to refuse service to persons unfit to be received is often the authority relied on when taking such actions . |
| 17 | If your dog persists in misbehaving when the doorbell is rung , then you may have to take alternative action . |
| 18 | These trips are expensive and women may have to take young children hundreds of miles . |
| 19 | But some of the alleged failures may turn out to be actual failures , and the Institute may have to take disciplinary action against the firms in question . |
| 20 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Driver-only buses have become the norm , and may have increased privatised profitability , but they 've decreased traffic flow . |
| 22 | However , a combination of zidovudine with interferon alpha may have increased beneficial effects in KS . |
| 23 | It has also been reported that diabetics may have increased vascular sensitivity to angiotensin II ( Christlieb , 1976 ; Weidmann et al , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 25 | Gillray may have formulated new images , and new arguments , to deal with the changed situation , but his novelty was not constructed from a sudden conversion . |
| 26 | If our policies had achieved wider media coverage , we may have achieved greater support , but there is a foundation there on which we intend to build . |
| 27 | The producer may have to insist that Production Company A is more suitable to make the film than Production Company B. Perhaps because of the show-business nature of producing for TV , creative teams can want to take charge which can prove a disaster . |
| 28 | She may have to undergo more surgery to have the implants removed . |
| 29 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 30 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |