Example sentences of "may [adv] have be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for boffin , although the Oxford English Dictionary states that its etymology is unknown , I have conjectured that this same purist Huxley may inadvertently have been responsible for it . |
| 2 | It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change . |
| 3 | He may already have been responsible for the extinction of some 450 species . |
| 4 | The IPG identified additional work to be done before the changeover : claimants may still have been entitled to special payments before they were abolished or entitled to benefits that they were not claiming that would affect the amount of transitional payments they would receive on transfer to the new system . |
| 5 | This marked a shift from the integrated singular order within which the bardic and similar orders were first defined , though in its disputed origins the guild may once have been close to them . |
| 6 | The sourness in Pétain 's relations with parliamentarians may partly have been due to a curiously unexpected timidity in his makeup , derived from the insecurity of his humble background . |
| 7 | Ealhfrith may also have been apprehensive about his father 's plans for his younger half-brother , Ecgfrith , who appears to have married Aethelthryth , widowed daughter of Anna , king of the eastern Angles , c . |
| 8 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 9 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 10 | It may also have been reassuring to US audiences , while America was being condemned world-wide for its barbaric acts in Vietnam , to see that they did not have the monopoly on violence , which could even be found in an English village . |
| 11 | Furthermore , if the loans were " beneficial " loans within the meaning of s160 TA 1988 , as is likely , then the tax payers may also have been liable to income tax under Schedule E ( probably only at basic rate ) on the amount released . |
| 12 | Confining ourselves to Vienna and the last few weeks alone , it seems he may also have been responsible for a couple of recent murders of prostitutes in the Altstadt . |
| 13 | Other factors may also have been important in France . |
| 14 | However , if raising of /a/ is so well established in BV velar environments , the tendency to front-raising may formerly have been present in both BV and EModE in other environments also , receding from these environments before receding from the velars . |
| 15 | He and a group of clerical supporters refused to accept the outcome of events , despite the fact that Cautinus was at first conciliatory — he may even have been responsible for the proposal that Cato should be given the see of Tours . |
| 16 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 17 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 18 | The patients ' symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction may well have been due to benign prostatic hypertrophy and the coexistent prostatic cancer may have been an incidental finding . |
| 19 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 20 | She may well have been right about this . |
| 21 | Nicholas 's personal judgement may well have been crucial in blocking negotiations with the Kadets in the fluid situation that prevailed in the first half of 1906 . |
| 22 | However , when the play was written ( in 1601 ) Shakespeare may well have been familiar with the Latin or Greek version , but his audience in the main would not . |
| 23 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 24 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 25 | And he may well have been correct in thinking that , in France at any rate , such men were less likely to take advantage of women . |
| 26 | As such , sociology ( including urban sociology ) may well have been premature in rejecting these kinds of understanding . |
| 27 | Now Keynes may well have been wrong in his critique of classical labour market analysis . |
| 28 | The Ariadne carried an immense and , to the uninitiated , quite bewildering variety of looking and listening instruments that may well have been unmatched by any naval ship afloat . |
| 29 | Malherbe may well have been responsible for a new approach apparent in vol.9 and in most of those from vol.1 onwards , which contain none of the serious distortions outlined above . |
| 30 | The Mercians would seem to have had influence in Berkshire at an earlier date in the reign of Wulfhere and the same may well have been true of Somerset , in which case what Aethelbald was doing was appropriating border territories traditionally in dispute between the Mercians and the western Saxons . |