Example sentences of "may have [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the four can be definitely linked with Gloucester in the 1470s , although the Calthorpes may have kept some connections with him . |
| 2 | None of the four can be definitely linked with Gloucester in the 1470s , although the Calthorpes may have kept some connections with him . |
| 3 | We may have to close some roads to traffic and make them pedestrian only . |
| 4 | 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 . ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We shall see that there are other indications that the Belfast /a/ system was formerly more inclined to the front than it is now , and as we have noted above , the EModE front-raising rule may have affected some dialects later than others . |
| 8 | They suggest that warnings by Mr Major that a vote for the Liberal Democrats could let Labour into Downing Street by the ‘ back door ’ may have frightened some waverers back into the Tory fold . |
| 9 | Disco said ‘ We may have made some mistakes in our business plan when we chose to go for growth . |
| 10 | During this time Mozart may have given some lessons to the young Beethoven , who was visiting Vienna for the first time . |
| 11 | CORRECTION : Our June feature on redundancy may have given some readers the impression that redundancy pay is based on full pay , which is incorrect . |
| 12 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 13 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 14 | All may have emulated some actions of previous British governments . |
| 15 | Prior Robert may have had some qualms concerning his own worthiness , though that was a weakness to which he seldom succumbed . |
| 16 | I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’ |
| 17 | They may have had some children . |
| 18 | The size of the redundancy payment , with its age premium , may have encouraged some employers to shed older workers , the payments being seen as sufficient to sustain a period of unemployment which might last until retirement . ’ |
| 19 | I call upon everyone to begin to work to create such an agenda in the coming months , mindful that each of us may have to make some compromises along the way if we are to end with something in which we all can believe . |
| 20 | You might get a slight off-set onto the blotters and you may have to retouch some areas . |
| 21 | ‘ He may have sold some cars on the side . ’ |
| 22 | Although it may have mishandled some details , such as last week 's round of Arab-Israeli talks ( see page 65 ) , its big decisions — to bring its troops swiftly home , to maintain the siege around Iraq , to establish a haven for Iraqi Kurds and to push Israel and the Arabs into long-overdue negotiation — have mostly been right . |