Example sentences of "may have [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , you may have reserved ground for burial , or you may wish to be cremated , or to have a very simple funeral . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The court heard that Mr White may have lost control of the motorbike because of his guilt over the accident that killed his friend . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These are largely propagated vegetatively and such ‘ vegeculture ’ , based on cassava , may have antedated seed culture in northern South America . |
| 10 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 11 | Drug may have saved coma girl |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Although debates may have to take place after 10 pm , the Leader of the House might care to bear in mind that debates at earlier times on major matters would be more appropriate . |
| 17 | Training may have to take place at the principal 's manufacturing plant and such training should form a compulsory part of any agreement . |
| 18 | Payments under this scheme do not affect any legal rights you may have to take action for any loss or damage sustained and do not constitute an admission of liability on our part . |
| 19 | At the end of it there 's the chance that we may have to take action ; we 'd take that very much as a last resort , and we hope our customers will respond without the necessity for fines or prosecutions . |
| 20 | The reason why trade has risen , one reason is because , erm , transport costs have declined in real terms and secondly w , why can you think of anything else that may have increased trade in manufac manufactured goods ? |
| 21 | Plasma catecholamine levels tend to be normal in the majority of diabetics except in those with ketoacidosis , autonomic neuropathy and poor glycaemic control ( Christensen , 1972 ; Christlieb , 1976 ; Zadik et al , 1980 ) , although hypertensive diabetics may have increased sensitivity to circulating catecholamines ( Christlieb , 1976 ; De Chatel et al , 1977 ) . |
| 22 | They may have obtained support , in manpower , money and material , from all three ; but they themselves were essentially political in orientation . |
| 23 | Existing operations may have outgrown space available in the old location and it may be impossible , owing to planning restrictions or the space actually available , to expand . |
| 24 | They may have survived County Louth but Malcolm 's driving is an entirely different matter . |
| 25 | According to this morning 's Irish Times , Dave O'Leary did n't get to play in the reserves and may have to undergo surgery on this achilles after breaking down in training yesterday . |
| 26 | A LOYALIST prisoner may have to undergo neuro-surgery after sustaining a fractured skull during trouble at the Maze prison last weekend . |
| 27 | Transitional relief — a system for phasing large increases or reductions — is outside the scope of this article , but may have affected liability since revaluation . |
| 28 | The British Election Surveys have shown how age , social class and other attributes are related to voting , and this information can be linked to findings on the attributes of migrants to assess how migration may have affected election results . |
| 29 | Another consequence of modern farming has been a change in the types of farm buildings , which may have affected Barn Owl and Swallow numbers by the loss of sites as traditional Sussex barns disappear . |
| 30 | ‘ No , no , of course not , ’ he hurriedly corrects himself , aware he may have caused offence . |