Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible . |
| 2 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 3 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 4 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 5 | This may have helped draw on the Enemy 's hasty stroke , thinks Gandalf at III , 88 . |
| 6 | The political culture may have helped generate problems of political structure , but Britain 's problems , I will argue , are not essentially political : they are economic and social . |
| 7 | The Whitney retrospective may have helped sell three good Basquiats at Sotheby 's , though two difficult , insubstantial pieces failed at Christie 's . |
| 8 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 9 | But the SMMT was heartened by good attendances at the Birmingham Motor Show last month and this renewed interest in the industry may have helped boost the October sales . |
| 10 | It may have helped reduce eighteenth-century mortality ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 11 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |