Example sentences of "may have been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could well be that some of the summit surfaces of the Hercynian blocks are Eogene pediplains , while the weathering responsible for the formation of tors may have been tropical weathering of the same date . |
| 2 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 3 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 4 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 5 | That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends . |
| 6 | Two or three out of every ten who came to live in south London were north Londoners who had merely crossed the river , but of course they themselves may have been second generation immigrants to the capital . |
| 7 | During recent times , the main goal of many firms may have been long term survival . |
| 8 | Another half-exception may have been Bonar Law . |
| 9 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 10 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 11 | It is not clear how far there were similar local grievances to those of the Kentishmen in some of the other shires which were involved in the revolt , notably Sussex and Surrey , although it is probable that the resentment of the citizens of Salisbury at the powers which the bishop exercised there may have been one factor behind the murder of Ayscough ( 7 ; 147 , pp.63 , 66–8 ) . |
| 12 | Hull , too , suffered from the poor relations between England and the Hanse in the second half of the fifteenth century , and this may have been one factor which affected the trade of York , which had used Hull as a centre for exports . |
| 13 | This may have been one reason why the national body was , in the first instance , entitled the Committee for Local Authority Higher education and presumably why its membership includes a representative from the Association of Principals of Colleges , a body broadly representative of those further education establishments other than polytechnics and colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 14 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 15 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 16 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 17 | There are several references to what may have been congenital syphilis . |
| 18 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 19 | It may have been complete rubbish , but that 's what I felt . ’ |
| 20 | During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas . |
| 21 | ( It may have been simple retaliation — he had been mildly reprimanded by the guardians for allowing an unqualified assistant to attend a midwifery case as his deputy earlier that year , and had been instructed to provide the name of a legally qualified locum . ) |
| 22 | In two patients the cause of anaemia may have been menstrual loss because they both settled after menstruation had stopped . |
| 23 | There may have been free kick there . |
| 24 | Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 25 | A computer error ( or , to be fair , it may have been human error ) caused me accidentally to ‘ erase ’ the disc containing Chapter 3 . |
| 26 | ( For most of his adult life he suffered in wrists and legs a condition diagnosed as ‘ gout ’ but which may have been rheumatoid arthritis . ) |
| 27 | Then you walked into my life , and I suddenly realised that what I had felt for Claire may have been sexual attraction , but it was never love . ’ |
| 28 | For instance , in many experiments there may have been unintended selection pressure for rapid development and reproductive maturation in the control line flies with which the ‘ old ’ lines were compared , potentially leading to artefactual effects on early fertility . |
| 29 | There may have been another factor that induced these creatures to leave the ground . |
| 30 | Then , wryly : ‘ There may have been another reason ; even as a young man I was a staid sort of chap and they were a bit wild at times . |