Example sentences of "may have [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At first you may have to represent this contradictoriness chronologically , in the manner of ‘ At first the corridor frightened me , but later I came to love it , its hatpegs , its long coats to hide behind . ’ |
| 4 | In France yesterday , Criquette Head 's Hatoof was beaten by Francois Boutin 's Kenbu in the Prix Imprudence at Maisons-Laffitte but lack of early pace may have caused this surprise result . |
| 5 | ‘ Statistics may have compounded this perception . |
| 6 | The employer may have reached this decision on purely strategic , rather than personal or malicious , grounds The employer may calculate , for instance , that a real commercial benefit can only be derived from gaining a market lead in a highly competitive sector ( such as electronics or fibre optics ) with a new product that would otherwise be obsolescent by the time the patent filing and examination process has run its course . |
| 7 | Consequently , the reader may have reached this point in the book without a firm idea of how to start , or progress , a project that makes use of soft systems thinking . |
| 8 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 9 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 10 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 11 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 12 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 13 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 14 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 15 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 16 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 17 | You may have received this leaflet directly from a solicitor . |
| 18 | Anyone who may have seen this vehicle since May 11 is also asked to contact them . |
| 19 | Certainly we 're concerned that someone may be going around educational establishments and we 're appealing for anyone else who may have seen this man to get in touch with us . |
| 20 | I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time . |
| 21 | Some sites may have developed this type of location for reasons of overall convenience ; others were clearly attracted by the economic potential of the crossroads . |
| 22 | Indeed , in some situations , the child may have to exploit this interdependence to infer the reason on the basis of information about the result , while continuing to maintain the reason/result distinction . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom 's right of diplomatic protection of the Company may have influenced this argument , which was rejected by the Court . |
| 24 | Although not designed as ‘ brain storming ’ sessions , progress review meetings may have to serve this function if a job is behind programme and rescheduling is required to get back on target . |
| 25 | Larger building companies may have reduced this operation to a form-filling exercise , particularly on repetitive projects , for example housing . |
| 26 | In recent years , however , inflation in material cost may have overridden this factor . |
| 27 | or parents , and may have had this information included in lessons at school , relatively few do anything about it . |
| 28 | Television may have encouraged this process but there are other good reasons for it . |
| 29 | While project money spent on fiction and topical non-fiction may have encouraged this use , we were unable to determine the degree to which this was so . |
| 30 | Despite these kinds of market issues , Microsoft is unlikely to allow developers to add value by tinkering with NT operating system code , ‘ but it may have to change this model to win the high end , ’ warns Schuster . |