Example sentences of "[noun pl] may sometimes have " in BNC.

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1 Twenty-five years ago , during a period of full employment , employers may sometimes have been right to assume that those who were unemployed or redundant were less effective than those who held down a job .
2 The dominance of London may partly reflect the decline of other centres , particularly in the South and South-east , and indeed London merchants may sometimes have been responsible for this .
3 The message was emphasised by stressing the street as part of the system , whereby disadvantages may sometimes have to be accepted in one place for the sake of the whole network .
4 ( k ) The question of knowledge The problem of ascribing knowledge to the supplier of the purpose for which goods were intended , is complicated by the fact that the goods may sometimes have more than one purpose .
5 These promotions may sometimes have resulted from family connections securing the nomination from Cnut , or to local influence being so important for a bishop that there was a natural tendency to choose a local man .
6 Firstly , it should be remembered that raising well-equipped military forces may sometimes have been no less expensive than paying the enemy to go away .
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