Example sentences of "may have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soil acidification , bog development , and scrub and woodland reduction in the mid- or late-post-glacial may have exterminated Ulmus , Alnus , Quercus , and M. perennis , whereas climatic change around 4000 B.P. probably caused the extinction of P. sylvestris . |
| 2 | For , you may have reserved ground for burial , or you may wish to be cremated , or to have a very simple funeral . |
| 3 | The morpheme which is glossed as " father " may have extended meanings when it is used in other contexts , but its real meaning is " father " in its ordinary English sense of " male parent " . |
| 4 | The " Daily Mail " may have lost money in taking on the " Moonies " but it gained both in reputation and by discouraging similar actions against itself . |
| 5 | Circumstances may change , and he may no longer want the goods and services that he has ordered , or the seller may appear to be doing a poor job , and the buyer may have lost confidence in him . |
| 6 | This is a delicate negotiation and if at a later stage the prospective purchaser who made the highest offer withdraws , the other parties may have lost interest or not wish to participate . |
| 7 | In June 1382 troubles in Rouen , caused partly by a reaction to the French crown 's fiscal demands , were suppressed with some vigour ; the events may have lost Charles VI friends and supporters in Normandy , still an area to be tended with attention by the royal authority in Paris . |
| 8 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 9 | However , the central problem remains — cities may have lost segments of their populations , but they have been left with ever-more dependent communities . |
| 10 | There had been suggestions that Senna 's car may have lost downforce when running behind the Williams but the video clearly shows that he was n't close enough . |
| 11 | The court heard that Mr White may have lost control of the motorbike because of his guilt over the accident that killed his friend . |
| 12 | You may or may not be able to do that because it may have lost consciousness , alright , but we 'll put down warm drink if possible . |
| 13 | ash-strapped local authorities may have to set limits , either formal or informal , on the amount they can spend to keep groups like elderly people and people with learning difficulties in their own homes . |
| 14 | These are largely propagated vegetatively and such ‘ vegeculture ’ , based on cassava , may have antedated seed culture in northern South America . |
| 15 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 16 | ACTION by US scientists may have saved Academician Andrei Sakharov 's life when he was exiled to Gorky in 1980 — according to an anonymous letter recently circulated in Moscow . |
| 17 | It may have saved Sakharov 's life . ’ |
| 18 | Fertiliser is often used in the manufacture of large bombs and police believe the finds may have saved lives . |
| 19 | Drug may have saved coma girl |
| 20 | A TEENAGER may have saved passengers on a sleeper train when he cleared two shopping trolleys from the line minutes before the train arrived . |
| 21 | Economists say the ruling may have saved Rover . |
| 22 | In recent weeks you may have noticed groups of young , fresh-faced , well-dressed visitors being escorted round the site by by directors . |
| 23 | This blurring of class identities may have provoked Manet to have been impressed , not so much by Paris 's streets , but by the ‘ queerness ’ of the people who used them.go It is this sort of ‘ flattening ’ of identity in the creation of blasé urban character that occasioned Clark 's observation that ‘ the pleasures of seeing ’ in Haussmann 's Paris involved ‘ some sort of lack ’ , a certain ‘ brazenness ’ . |
| 24 | The Agii Theodhori shipyard and port may have served Knossos or Mallia , or it may have had its own hinterland on the boundary of the two major territories . |
| 25 | Many women who moved into occasional prostitution through economic necessity had probably already had previous sexual experience , and for many the distinction between occasional sex with a young wooer and clandestine prostitution may have remained fluid . |
| 26 | Danby 's fall in 1679 may have deprived Dering of a political ally and patron , but it provided him with his most prestigious government position . |
| 27 | A young couple may have to shelve plans to have a baby , at least for the moment . |
| 28 | It seems police failure to raise a national alarm may have fooled Stewart into lying low rather than making a run for it . |
| 29 | And if we are not satisfied with his answers we may have to take things further , possibly with a disciplinary hearing . ’ |
| 30 | Here , performance and practicality may have to take precedence , Several conventions have been created to aid readability and structure , ranging from the use of particular variable names , through the fixing of line numbers for types of routines , to the use of prepared ‘ standard ’ routines from a ‘ library ’ . |