Example sentences of "[ex0] may have been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 2 | And yesterday as a big hunt was launched for her attackers , police revealed there may have been women in the gang . |
| 3 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 4 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 5 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 6 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 7 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 8 | On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office . |
| 9 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 10 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 11 | There may have been queues in the streets when Derrida came to Oxford recently . |
| 12 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 13 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 14 | Since a mother generally has a new baby every four and a half years , there may have been pressure on her to speed up each youngster 's training , to leave time to care for the latest addition to the family . |