Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] may [vb infin] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 2 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |
| 3 | Perhaps the individuals involved were too obtuse in applying conventional planning models with little regard for local feeling , and they may have been less than adroit in their handling of public opinion . |
| 4 | It gave him everything and he may have been genuinely intending good . |
| 5 | The rain was pelting him relentlessly and he may have been as well to have had no clothes at all for all the protection his gave him . |
| 6 | And it may have been here that a Staufen protest to the pope was drawn up . |
| 7 | The fact that they show little grief does not mean they are unmoved , but they may have been less inclined than are many women to see their relationship with their partner as the fulcrum of their lives . |
| 8 | That seemed unlikely to win over the malcontents , but it may have been just enough to get the president home . |