Example sentences of "[pron] may have be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 2 | ( For most of his adult life he suffered in wrists and legs a condition diagnosed as ‘ gout ’ but which may have been rheumatoid arthritis . ) |
| 3 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 4 | There may have been other prisoners . |
| 5 | This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints . |
| 6 | There may have been other churches of lower status on such estates as well . |
| 7 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 8 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 9 | Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . |
| 10 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 11 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 12 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 13 | During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas . |
| 14 | There may have been good reasons of prudence in all this . |
| 15 | Indeed , sometimes it is not very useful , as there may have been long periods without any clear artistic developments , such as the Roman empire of the fourth and fifth centuries or the early medieval period . |
| 16 | The patient with chronic pain is often mentally depressed and there may have been adverse experiences such as sexual abuse or threatening life events . |
| 17 | There may have been intermittent recoveries , but the bulk of the evidence ( often intractable and indirect ) suggests that until around 1500 they were only temporary . |
| 18 | Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 19 | Oh no , oh no , oh there were all v very few and far be there may have been local strikes but , such as one day er a grievance been put in and the men struck work just for it . |
| 20 | For instance , in many experiments there may have been unintended selection pressure for rapid development and reproductive maturation in the control line flies with which the ‘ old ’ lines were compared , potentially leading to artefactual effects on early fertility . |
| 21 | There may have been free kick there . |
| 22 | There may have been secret conclaves for this purpose . |
| 23 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 24 | Others thought they may have been blood-cooling devices , similar to the large ears of African elephants . |
| 25 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 26 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 27 | ( It may have been simple retaliation — he had been mildly reprimanded by the guardians for allowing an unqualified assistant to attend a midwifery case as his deputy earlier that year , and had been instructed to provide the name of a legally qualified locum . ) |
| 28 | It may have been complete rubbish , but that 's what I felt . ’ |
| 29 | A computer error ( or , to be fair , it may have been human error ) caused me accidentally to ‘ erase ’ the disc containing Chapter 3 . |
| 30 | In part perhaps it was a translation of the Old English ‘ Bretwalda ’ , a title attributed to the high kings of the island from very early days ; in part it may have been direct imitation of Byzantium . |