Example sentences of "may have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These salt concentrations may have been increased due to air pollution and ‘ salty ’ mortar used during earlier restoration work . |
| 2 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 3 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 4 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 5 | The western marches of Offa 's kingdom may have been experiencing renewed British harassment . |
| 6 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 7 | Two thirds of those with baseline hypoxaemia had been born preterm and may have been suffering mild , clinically unapparent chronic lung disease . |
| 8 | The long back legs of such hunters look highly suitable for running , and as they did so the long tail may have been held erect as a kind of counter-balance ( see p. 116 ) . |
| 9 | In terms of the survival of the regime , such a policy may have been deemed necessary . |
| 10 | It is this factor which may be significant ; otherwise the act of breaking and defacement , common to most of the sculptured stones , may have been considered effective in destroying the pagan influence . |