Example sentences of "may have [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's the best thing about Mark ; he may have scored 28 goals himself , but he 's probably created about half of our goals entirely , ’ says his Ibrox team-mate John Brown . |
| 5 | This evening the men arrested are being questioned and police have appealed for witnesses who may have seen three men running from the area of the shooting last night . |
| 6 | ‘ It is unfortunate that so little is known of Carlisle , Luguvalium ( Carvetiorum ? ) , although it seems to have grown to considerable size and may have exceeded 70 acres ( 28 ha ) . ’ |
| 7 | They are particularly anxious to hear from a man they think may have witnessed one attack . |
| 8 | The court may have ordered one party 's solicitor to conduct the conveyancing ; but if not so , it would seem appropriate ( assuming the husband to be the conveyancing or transferring party ) for the husband 's solicitors , if the house is in the sole name or even if it is in the joint names of the husband and wife , to deliver to the wife 's solicitors an epitome of title consisting of a copy of the last conveyance , copy of any mortgage , copies of any documents relating to " sales-off " or other transactions affecting the property and copies of any covenants affecting the same . |
| 9 | It is therefore difficult to convince a farm worker 's wife , who may have to walk two miles down a muddy lane in the pouring rain to catch the Mondays and Thursdays only ( except Bank Holidays ) under-threat-of-closure bus to do her weekly shopping , that she has benefited from any improvement in the provision of rural amenities , when her access to them is increasingly denied . |
| 10 | A 45-FOOT dinosaur which lived 200 million years ago may have had eight hearts , say scientists writing in the medical journal Lancet . |
| 11 | A HARLEY Street doctor jailed for seven years for a series of sex attacks on women visiting his surgery may have had 100 victims . |
| 12 | An oncologist may have to diagnose a malignant tumour several times a day , an ophthalmologist may have to tell five patients , in the one day , that they are going blind . |
| 13 | In Berry 's case , English law did certainly provide for one level of appeal to the Court of Appeal and may have provided one level of appeal beyond that . |
| 14 | He may have died 27 December 1936 , his twenty-first birthday . |
| 15 | You may have driven the ball 50 yards downfield , you may have won six rucks in succession , but , on the seventh attempt , if you could not get the ball away , you lose it . |
| 16 | Gerber , South Africa 's record try-scorer with 19 , has touched down four times in as many internationals and his centre partnership with Pieter Muller poses a more difficult challenge to Carling and Jeremy Guscott than they may have envisaged three months ago . |
| 17 | The indexing for their information system , however , remains largely the same as NACAB 's , with the result that the use of the two systems in parallel , one for enquiry classification and the other for information access , may have solved one shortcoming and raised another . |
| 18 | In the former case the interviewer may have to find 10 men and 10 women , and these 20 must be composed of 6 under 30 , 7 between 30 and 55 and 7 over 55 . |
| 19 | American Pritchard may have fought three world champions in Mike Weaver , Michael Dokes and Tim Witherspoon , but he lost to them all , albeit forcing a split decision against the latter in March . |
| 20 | The process may have taken two centuries The Book of Esther was probably translated only in 78/77 B.C. |