Example sentences of "may have been [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education .
2 It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope .
3 A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police .
4 It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him .
5 ‘ It seems the continental disease may have been in this country for some time , ’ Dr Tapper says , ‘ but we do n't believe hare populations are in serious danger . ’
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