Example sentences of "may [adv] have [vb pp] to a " in BNC.

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1 The lower transfusion requirements in the regulated group reflected milder illness with less investigational blood loss but may also have related to a greater initial endowment of red cells and their precursors .
2 Once established , however , the theoretical stage seems to have grown in status and size , and may even have led to a relative decline in the importance and quality of the practical stage .
3 If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration .
4 Possibly there was some breakdown of control when he entered London , which may well have contributed to a reaction against him on the part of the citizens .
5 When Gundovald first arrived in Gaul he apparently had an considerable quantity of treasure with him , which must suggest that he initially had the backing of the Byzantine emperor , whose concerns about the Lombards in Italy may well have stretched to a desire to see a close ally established in Francia .
6 The Mid-Ulster dialects may therefore have preserved to a great extent an older general English vowel pattern , and they may help us to project knowledge of the present on the past .
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