Example sentences of "may simply have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 2 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |
| 3 | The thief may simply have been stealing the books to sell . |
| 4 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 5 | However , his version of the Jago people buying their ‘ kicksies ’ , ‘ benjies ’ and ‘ daisies ’ — that is , their trousers , coats and boots ( ‘ daisy roots ’ ) — from a local ‘ ikey ’ tailor may simply have been borrowed from Mayhew . |
| 6 | Alternatively , Ho may simply have been waiting for something to turn up , something that would tip the scales one way or the other in the situation that was neither peace nor war . |
| 7 | If any relationship did exist between recall and previous knowledge it may simply have been obscured by the binary nature of scoring junctions as either known or not known and the fact that most of the subjects actually knew most of the junctions previously . |
| 8 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
| 9 | We have already seen that this may simply have been a way of saying that Wulfstan had secured an undertaking that they were going to abandon practices which he found displeasing . |
| 10 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |