Example sentences of "may have been make " in BNC.
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| 1 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 2 | Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care . |
| 3 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Normally , any limiting adjustment which may have been made to the amount of positive pitch available will be overridden by this control . |
| 6 | ‘ It led to some confusion in the department and mistakes may have been made . |
| 7 | The gesture may have been made for the sake of appearances : after all , how could a minister be without Christian charity ? |
| 8 | The shows may have been made aeons ago , but endless reruns have ensured kitsch classic status for information obsessives . |
| 9 | And Harold Furth , Director of the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory made similar remarks : ‘ Whatever the reality and utility of ‘ test-tube fusion energy ’ , some progress may have been made … in focusing the world 's attention on the potential value of a realistic long-term strategy for the achievement of the fusion energy goal . ’ |
| 10 | In this way the move to more fertile soils may have been made to improve productivity per person and increase output for similar or less effort . |
| 11 | Decorated metalwork and pottery can , in addition , be studied by the measurement of elements in designs to determine which objects may have been made at the same source , using the same tools , or even by the same craftsman . |
| 12 | How or why the interchange of decorative elements was carried out is more difficult to understand ; the moulds for casting the brooches may have been made with models constituting separate elements of the decoration of the brooches , or entirely remodelled each time a brooch was made , with variations . |
| 13 | Secondary wax models may have been made from a durable master model ( Holmqvist 1972 , p. 24 ) . |
| 14 | Yet the very large concentrations at Faversham ( Harden 1956b , pp. 146–7 ) and the fact that some supposed European types are more common in England than on the Continent , for instance the Kempston type cone beakers ( Evison 1972 ) and bag beakers ( Harden 1978 , p. 2 ) , encourage a view that some at least may have been made in England . |
| 15 | It remains unclear whether the types of vessel so commonly found in cremation cemeteries were also used domestically ; the evidence of the settlement of West Stow where stamped vessels of a type found in cremation cemeteries were present amongst other rubbish and which may have been made there , is ambiguous . |
| 16 | Many tools may have been made of organic materials but some , for instance wood-working tools , were of metal . |
| 17 | The Lanx may have been made to commemorate the visit of Julian the Apostate to the shrine in 363 AD . |
| 18 | Incumbent members of Congress have always been difficult to defeat and too much may have been made of the advantages of incumbency in the modern legislature . |
| 19 | His mother had been married once before in a stunning white dress , which Karl thinks may have been made by Doucet — one of the great early twentieth-century designers . |
| 20 | Pregnancies of single mothers may have been made less unfavourable by housing legislation ( Ineichen 1972 ) . |
| 21 | Yet Nixon continued to maintain his innocence : on 22 May , he stated that " I took no part in , nor was I aware of any subsequent effort that may have been made to cover up Watergate . " |
| 22 | A contemporary Shirvan rug , for example ( pl. 24 ) , may have been made in the Shirvan area — now part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan — but it could just as easily have come from any of the Soviet weaving centres producing Caucasian-style rugs . |
| 23 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |
| 24 | Such would obviously be so in the case of a binding compromise ; but even where there is no consideration for the payment , it may have been made to close the transaction and so be irrecoverable . |
| 25 | As children we may have been made to feel inadequate , silly or useless because we were never praised . |
| 26 | Detection of a semantic anomaly is highly informative because it indicates that an error may have been made either in understanding the context , or in perceiving the new unit . |
| 27 | Whatever mistakes may have been made in the past , CPRW believes that the current Inquiry provides a most necessary and timely opportunity to reassess priorities . |
| 28 | The memory task may have been made inappropriately difficult by preventing subjects from using strategies such as mentally retracing the route and scoring as correct memories only aspects of the situation which could not have been provided from previous knowledge . |
| 29 | We have attributed these effects to the difference in fibre content of the two diets but some contribution may have been made by the difference in protein content as some protein may have reached the colon and also have been fermented . |
| 30 | Er whatever agreements may have been made with the Department of Transport and the County Surveyor regarding the acceptability north east of York of course does n't mean that other locations are also not un not acceptable under this criterion . |