Example sentences of "may have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reconstruction in Victorian times may have rendered the building even more forbidding . |
| 2 | You may have to unscrew the stove-fiddles to release the Thermos , and you 'll find the milk in the fridge to the right of the stove . ’ |
| 3 | But in the end , we may have to save the honour of Genoa the Superb by attacking her . ’ |
| 4 | Adam may have extended the invitation , but it happens to be my house . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Boro may have lost a couple of home games , but we always seem to be the whipping boys who allow teams to regain their form . ’ |
| 6 | Should you be unfortunate enough not to find a solution by this means , then you may have lost the alignment of the disk read/write heads . |
| 7 | Raymond is n't fond of Jewish cooking and I may have lost the knack . |
| 8 | A man who had superglue squirted in his face by muggers may have lost the sight of one eye . |
| 9 | ALLEGATIONS that the Department of Trade and Industry may have lost the taxpayer millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace are to be made by the National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog . |
| 10 | In a clipped French sentence that sounded as if it had been well rehearsed , she told Agathe that she may have lost the produce of her labour but she had not lost the fruit of her labours . |
| 11 | A version of it may have heartened the Normans in 1066 ; and it is even possible that the earliest surviving version was composed in Normandy . |
| 12 | A POLICEMAN shot twice in the back early today may have disturbed an IRA bomb plot , senior officers believe . |
| 13 | Queen Philippa died in August 1369 , and the removal of her influence may have hastened a deterioration in his character which became all too apparent in the 1370s . |
| 14 | As such , the ethnic minorities represent a major demographic strength for parts of urban Britain , though at the same time their presence may have hastened the exodus of better-off whites and certainly gives rise to a very difficult set of policy issues ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 15 | If you 're trying to combine both in your life the chances of your being hit by stress are probably higher-no matter how brilliantly you may have organized the family in your absence — and it is even more important to be able to deal with it . |
| 16 | Some patients may have recorded an episode of faecal incontinence as a bowel movement , before the beginning of retraining . |
| 17 | Wigan may have begun the season with uncertainty in losing four out of their first nine games but , once they got into their stride , there was no stopping them . |
| 18 | A GUNG-HO sailor may have fired the missile that killed five Turks in a NATO exercise . |
| 19 | It may have saved a lot of time . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Goldin 's enthusiasm for a smaller , cheaper station may have saved the project from outright cancellation ; if that is the case , he has staked his reputation ( as well as a lot of public money ) on the outcome . |
| 21 | And so the telegram was sent , a come-uppance which deserves quotation as an act that may have saved the world from early extinction by sheer megalomania : ‘ I deeply regret that it becomes my duty as president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces to replace you as Supreme Commander , Allied Powers ; Commander-in-Chief , United Nations Command ; Commander-in-Chief , Far East ; and Commanding General , U. S. Army Far East . |
| 22 | IF THE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank goes ahead with a takeover of Midland Bank , it may have to replace the pair of bronze lions that grace the entrance to its headquarters with a more appropriate symbol — such as a couple of ducks . |
| 23 | It is all supposition ; the gentry may have swung the government against the Act by now . |
| 24 | The controversy over Dow Corning 's role in introducing silicone breast implants increased in January when some US newspapers , including the Wall Street Journal , published summaries of internal documents and claimed that they suggest that it may have rushed the product through without adequate testing . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , uncritical acceptance of the results of classical twin studies may have misled a generation of researchers . |
| 26 | That document was today leaked in part in The Independent and the newspaper also contained my allegation that the Secretary of State may have misled the House in relation to figures that he quoted last week in the House . |
| 27 | But the time has come to admit that in my efforts to explain this one valid point I may have misled the reader in other ways . |
| 28 | Durfey may have written the lyrics himself , adding a coded signature to cock a snook at his detractors ( ‘ The Town may da-da-da-m me as a poet , but they sing my songs for all that ’ ) ; or he may conceivably have acted the part himself , for money he appeared to need , and plenty of laughs backstage . |
| 29 | I am sure that British Rail has considered all the options and it may have asked the consultants to study alternatives . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if it delays too long , a rival bird may have collected the prize . |