Example sentences of "and [modal v] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |
| 2 | He was a patient with well documented milk sensitivity that was not persistent and may have been related to activity of disease . |
| 3 | In the case of Augustus we are lucky enough to have the text of The Achievements of the Divine Augustus , which was inscribed on public buildings all over the Roman world and may have been written by Augustus himself during the course of his reign . |
| 4 | The text of Stella celi is an invocation for deliverance from plague , and may have been written in the summer of 1479 , when an outbreak assailed the staff of St George 's ; beyond this , no chronology for his work can be suggested . |
| 5 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 6 | There has been speculation that the body was booby-trapped before it left Awiel , and may have been timed to explode in mid-air . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that this form derives from that of the structure of the human eye itself , and may have been conceived by the theologist Fra' Paolo Sarpi , who collaborated on eye research in 1581–84 with Girolamo Fabrizio d'Acquapendente . |
| 8 | For example , a woman in an abusive relationship might be too frightened of her partner to intervene , and may have been threatened to prevent her telling the police or the court what happened . |
| 9 | The holiday was particularly useful for children who are still coming to terms with their conditions and may have been robbed of their self-confidence . |
| 10 | This offensive took place between Marivan and Sardasht on the night of 19–20 October 1983 and may have been intended to cut the lines of communication between the Iraqi forces and the KDPI . |
| 11 | The knife handle was found in Colchester and may have been used by a legionary . |
| 12 | Leisure in the home : this photograph is labelled simply ‘ An Interior Kitchen 1927 ’ and may have been taken in Paisley , but nothing is known of the boy . |
| 13 | Solutions in terms of this everyday discourse could have and may have been thought of by the client , who had come to the solicitor for a legal rather than an everyday solution . |
| 14 | Catchwords are particularly vulnerable when the pages are being trimmed and may have been removed by clumsy cropping . |
| 15 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 16 | Most often , though , lamas were stylistically portrayed as winged hybrid creatures and may have been linked to the later goddess-spirit who presided over the home and heart , Lamaria . |
| 17 | He succeeded to his barony as a minor in July 1742 and may have been educated at the English Jesuit College at St Omer in France . |
| 18 | Two thirds of those with baseline hypoxaemia had been born preterm and may have been suffering mild , clinically unapparent chronic lung disease . |
| 19 | Bill was with Boots the Chemist , and may have been working in Peterborough when Kathleen was with us — I ca n't remember . |
| 20 | Amongst smaller introduced animals are fire ants , which out-compete with the native ants ( and which can cause uncomfortable nights for camping scientists ) ; and cockroaches , which have been discovered on one or two islands and may have been transported inadvertently amongst supplies destined for scientists doing long-term research . |
| 21 | The place looks like a fortress and may have been occupied by Greek mercenaries rather than by Greek traders . |
| 22 | For example , many of the predominantly Hindu women from India would have been vegetarian whereas Muslim women from Pakistan and Bangladesh would have eaten meat and may have been infected while preparing raw meat . |
| 23 | To be eligible to be purchased by the Bank of England the bills must have an underlying short-term trade finance role , as evidenced by a clause on the face of the bill , and must have been accepted by an ‘ eligible ’ bank . |
| 24 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 25 | You must have LIFESPAN Quality Assurer privilege to use this option and must have been selected to approve the package . |
| 26 | The Product must already exist and must have been registered . |
| 27 | The Product must already exist and must have been registered . |
| 28 | The product package must exist ( and must have been created as a product using option 1.1.1 — Create Package/Product ) . |
| 29 | For Order 69 to apply the process must be in connection with ‘ civil or commercial proceedings in a foreign court or tribunal ’ and must have been received by the Senior Master with a written request for service from a consular or other authority in a convention country ( which term includes countries with which the United Kingdom has a relevant bilateral Convention and countries party to the Hague Convention ) or from the Foreign Secretary ( who would have been approached via diplomatic channels by the authorities of another state ) 262 . |
| 30 | Both works exploit the possibilities of clever echo effects , and must have been performed out of doors , with each orchestra in a different place . |