Example sentences of "may have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others may have maintained a long-term extra-marital affair . |
| 2 | Britain may have to bide it 's time for it 's next tennis hero … |
| 3 | We take into ourselves aspects of our parents that we may have denied previously . |
| 4 | Unless business picks up soon , some of the 245 foreign-owned banks in Switzerland may have to shut up shop . |
| 5 | If the hiatus is serious he may have to shut down all or part of the system or it may trip automatically and the operator 's task is to observe/control the shut-down to a quiescent state . |
| 6 | It says if the ruling stays , it may have to shut down . |
| 7 | One main street , set roughly at right angles , ran north and south from it ; its northern arm , possibly Flavian in date , aimed at the southern end of the modern High Street where the south gate of the fortified centre was probably later established ; a slight shift towards the west in its alignment in the late second century may have coincided with the construction of the first defences . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You may have loved her or hated her , agreed with her or violently opposed her , but not even her worst enemy could have accused her of spinelessness or a desire to be shielded from life 's little unpleasantnesses . |
| 10 | He may have concluded that Mr Honecker is a lost cause , but sooner or later ( and probably sooner ) he will leave the stage . |
| 11 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |
| 12 | He may have concluded after he turned 40 that his career could never have the same impetus . |
| 13 | She heard readings from Hilton 's Scale of perfection , from which she may have absorbed her preoccupation with virginity . |
| 14 | To pay the wages , they may have to realise some of their assets . |
| 15 | Loss of active swimming habits may have rendered the complex suture lines superfluous . |
| 16 | This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once . |
| 17 | Reconstruction in Victorian times may have rendered the building even more forbidding . |
| 18 | Our culture may have rendered natural selection relatively irrelevant . |
| 19 | In fact , he liked standing , especially when telephoning , which , as he disliked that form of communication , may have rendered it less irksome . |
| 20 | While temples built in the later eighteenth century may have stood in a naturalistic landscape inspired by the paintings of Claude , earlier garden buildings almost certainly stood in more formal settings , and fragments of avenues or long overgrown yew and beech hedges may remain . |
| 21 | Even when no substantial physical remains have been found , archaeologists , using bodies of knowledge gained over many years , may have been able to infer what kinds of buildings may have stood on particular spots which show foundation-traces , and have rendered ‘ artists impressions ’ of what the structures probably looked like . |
| 22 | Franco himself may have realized this , for his erstwhile enthusiasm for Arrese and his project began to wane in the second half of 1956 , as opposition to it became more widespread and vocal among the non-Falangist sectors of the regime . |
| 23 | For , you may have reserved ground for burial , or you may wish to be cremated , or to have a very simple funeral . |
| 24 | The hostility of his reception may have daunted other administrators from recruiting black players , but there was a gradual incursion of blacks into baseball in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 25 | You may have to unscrew the stove-fiddles to release the Thermos , and you 'll find the milk in the fridge to the right of the stove . ’ |
| 26 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 27 | It may have sounded like good fun , and obviously was for many young people , but this pleasurable diversion had a very serious side which went beyond romance . |
| 28 | It may have sounded odd to only have an 18in tube for a four foot tank , but this is another attempt to try to establish a more natural environment . |
| 29 | They may have tried to defend themselves with cooking implements and when begging for mercy used prayers in welsh which may have sounded ‘ foreign ’ to the attackers . |
| 30 | I may have to save them . |