Example sentences of "[noun prp] may have [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bram Stoker may have been a genial enough fellow externally , but he knew how to find a place which would match the chill in the soul of his novel . |
| 2 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 3 | Brampton may have been a quiet man but I can not imagine him allowing anyone to hustle him upstairs in a house full of people , tie a noose round his neck and hang him . |
| 4 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 5 | Malcolm Scott may have been the only footballer/cricketer at Feethams , but MI lists nine more who played against the Quakers . |
| 6 | Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music . |
| 7 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 8 | Barny may have been a natural for breeding , but he was useless at actually rearing his offspring . |
| 9 | Scotland may have been a remote country . |
| 10 | John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people . |
| 11 | ‘ Jesus may have been the first man who understood the power of some actions . |
| 12 | ‘ But somehow she got through and Tony may have been a little bit tired . ’ |