Example sentences of "may have [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tripp 's starting point may have been road accidents , but his overall grasp of the problem took him into wider fields . |
| 2 | On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office . |
| 3 | Dilnot and Kell felt that any ‘ incentive ’ effect which may have been present could only account , at most , for 1.2bn or 3% of the total increase in tax revenues over the period studied . |
| 4 | They thought she may have been sleep walking . |
| 5 | One reason for this slow recognition may have been doubt about the term itself and confusion concerning what is actually meant ( Dean et al . , |
| 6 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 7 | This may have been coincidence or , as we noted earlier , a deliberate ploy to enhance his own standing . |
| 8 | I never once saw her drunk and think it may have been water in the evenings too , half the time . |
| 9 | The appropriate words may have been sponsorship , influence or control but whatever they were they were bound up very much in local politics . |
| 10 | As the team 's player/manager he may have been man of the match but even our ebullient was eclipsed by . |
| 11 | This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate 's scare tactics . |
| 12 | Evans suggested that if the complete picture showed an attack on a city the houses depicted may have been part of an outer defence wall in which no ground-floor doors or windows would have been possible . |
| 13 | Excavations carried out recently on behalf of the Cheltenham Museum have revealed structures from the first to the fourth centuries , an irregular street pattern and a ditch with fourth-century coins in the lower filling which may have been part of a defence system . |
| 14 | Among the objects in Devizes Museum is an un-inscribed stone altar , a full-size silver eye from a bronze head of a cult statue and a length of iron rod sheathed in bronze , which may have been part of a sceptre . |
| 15 | The gift of a slave-girl to his daughter ( verse 24 ) may have been part of the dowry . |
| 16 | Thus , the phenomenon may have been part of variability in English for many centuries — more common perhaps in some dialects than in others , receding at some periods and progressing at others . |
| 17 | Not ideal , Ah 'm told , but that may have been part of the test . ’ |
| 18 | This requirement may have been part of our own history too . |
| 19 | But the move may have been part of the general trend by oil companies to reduce drilling commitments as cash flow was squeezed by sluggish oil prices and huge spending programmes in the North Sea . |
| 20 | There may have been press briefings by regulatory bodies during and after the Blue Arrow inquiry which he said called into question their impartiality . |
| 21 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 22 | I 've come to suspect that the spring may have been sewage , having noticed that butterflies , however , beautiful , possess unsavoury habits . |
| 23 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 24 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 25 | The sixty-seven ruins on the Plain of Barsoom commonly called ‘ temples ’ may have been just that ; or equally well may have been army barracks , isolated quarters for the mentally disturbed or victims of plague , or holiday camps for Martian urbanites . |
| 26 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 27 | One of these early pictures may have been Miner with Shovel on his Shoulder , a clumsy Expressionist drawing in black chalk and wash . |
| 28 | In two strides the Trunchbull was beside him , and by some amazing gymnastic trick , it may have been judo or karate , she flipped the back of Wilfred 's legs with one of her feet so that the boy shot up off the ground and turned a somersault in the air . |
| 29 | Her dramatic assertion may have been wish fulfilment , a hyperbolic statement expressing her real desires , but with such an unstable outlook we could n't take any chances : publication was brought forward to June . |
| 30 | Indeed , a factor of some importance in the slaying of Eorpwald may have been hostility to the way in which the kingdom of the eastern Angles had sunk under his rule to satellite status . |