Example sentences of "may [verb] been [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 2 | I doubt whether this implied anything lurid ; it may have been just a consultation . |
| 3 | Thucydides ( ii.22 ) says that Pericles , as general in 431 , ‘ did not summon the Assembly ’ , and though this may have been just an exercise of personal authority , there is another passage ( iv . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ It may have been simply a moment of despair and nothing more than that . |
| 5 | The slight increase of residual activity associated with Barrett 's oesophagus may have been partly a result of the uptake of isotype by the Barrett mucosa , and this residual activity did not interfere with calculation of the transit indices . |
| 6 | If his generosity was occasioned by concern at the growth of Edmund 's cult , and its connection with Swegen and taxation , it may have been principally an attempt to mollify the opposition by making much of patronising the saint himself . |
| 7 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 8 | He was a North-countryman , and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered , I think , as a traditional North-country attitude , exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness ; it may have been merely a defence mechanism . |