Example sentences of "may have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 2 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 5 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 8 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 9 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 10 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 11 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |