Example sentences of "[conj] [ex0] may [verb] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Medjay captain had no doubt been forced into the minor act of betrayal which consisted in breaking Huy 's confidence to Kenamun , and there may have been political or strategic reasons for it ; but the act had raised a wall between them . |
| 8 | The patient with chronic pain is often mentally depressed and there may have been adverse experiences such as sexual abuse or threatening life events . |
| 9 | 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 . |