Example sentences of "may [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The porch was commissioned by Bishop John Jewel , and its design may have been influenced by the neo-classical architecture to which Jewel had been exposed during his years of exile in Mary 's reign . |
| 32 | He may have been influenced by the views of the parliamentary reformer Major Cartwright who at this time was on an organisational subcommittee . |
| 33 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 34 | Judge Schucking may have been influenced by the fact that the Convention in question was the General Act of Berlin , which had been concluded by the Powers to settle issues of colonial rule in Africa , and thereby to lessen friction between them . |
| 35 | ( 4 ) He explicitly introduced the fact that the committing justices had found a case to answer whereby the jury may have been influenced adversely to the appellant . |
| 36 | Humboldt himself had shown an interest in the native inhabitants of the regions he visited , and his views on how the environment affects plants and animals may have been influenced by his studies of the ways in which human societies adapted to local conditions . |
| 37 | Work of this kind demonstrated the significance of the Bronze and Iron Ages in reducing the forest cover of the British landscape particularly in upland Britain , where blanket peat growth may have been influenced by deforestation rather than simply by climatic change ( Simmons , 1980 ) . |
| 38 | In the first place , as must already be evident , it shows some striking parallels with the Formalists ' views on literature and literary studies — views which were developed for the greater part quite independently of it , for although later Formalist theory may have been influenced to some degree by Saussure , the beginnings of the movement predate the publication of his Cours . |
| 39 | ( The pope may have been influenced by the fact that three years earlier the Spanish government had limited the right of asylum in Madrid , where it had also been quite unjustifiably extended , to the houses of foreign ambassadors . ) |
| 40 | Countess Cassillis said she believed that the jury may have been influenced by a crucial piece of evidence which was submitted only yesterday morning after the judge had completed his summing up . |
| 41 | At the touch of a button , the metallic strip on an identity card will surrender every scrap of information about us stored by any government department , as well as whatever ‘ confidential ’ and uncheckable information may have been collected by secret means . |
| 42 | After the rug has been clipped , it is washed to remove any dirt that may have been collected during the weaving process and to give the pile its particular " finish " . |
| 43 | Another possibility is that the gas density may have been overestimated for some reason . |
| 44 | The case for the removing of NTBs leading to a fundamental reconstruction of the economy of the EC may have been overestimated by the Cecchini Report . |
| 45 | It is regarded as the finest of the Cambridge college bridges ; an achievement to which the architect may have been spurred by the old St. John 's bridge , a masterpiece by Wren , barely 20 yards downstream . |
| 46 | The Emperor Hadrian 's British headquarters may have been uncovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda near Hadrian 's wall , Northumberland . |
| 47 | New information may have been uncovered by the appraisal which alters the objectives or the ability of the parties to continue to participate . |
| 48 | Whatever may have been threatened or done , do not give in to the bully and do not keep whatever has happened to yourself . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Fire claimed more than six hundred lives in Britain last year , many may have been saved if a smoke alarm had been fitted . |
| 51 | Too much emphasis may have been placed on grants at the expense of loans for environmental improvements ( Meyer , 1986 ) . |
| 52 | First , the lists mention only those performers singers , dancers , or instrumentalists who appeared on stage , but not any musicians who may have been placed elsewhere . |
| 53 | Today , another day may have been ruined before my feet even touched the floor . |
| 54 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 55 | We are concerned that at every level of government — in Europe , in Whitehall and in local authorities — some regulations may have been adopted in answer to legitimate concerns , but without proper regard to their overall impact on businesses and individuals . |
| 56 | Some details may have been completed before you receive the form . |
| 57 | They may have been corrupted by the atrocities committed against their people but , by stooping to the same level of conduct , they were corrupting their own cause . |
| 58 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 59 | Its distribution again emphasises that the dispersal of some rare imports may have been governed by social or political factors . |
| 60 | For example , symptom diaries that have been completed in blocks of different coloured ink arouse a suspicion that the patient may have been completing the diary in blocks of days rather than daily . |