Example sentences of "this may have [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been caused by the heating and lighting used at that time , or perhaps modern communications plus far better fire fighting methods available today ensure that incidents are tackled much more quickly . |
| 2 | However , this may have been overturned by the House of Lords in Lonrho Ltd . |
| 3 | This may have been characterised by a mystic other-worldliness which had little time for the concerns of this world , and the working out of faith in relation to the everyday challenges of life . |
| 4 | This may have been done by the surveyor to protect the building society or bank . |
| 5 | This may have been done in the Middle Ages , but many warrens seem to date from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 6 | Some of this may have been channelled into Pathe , where Mr Fiorini is still co-chairman . |
| 7 | This led to forced feedings of turkeys , and , after being voided , resultant germination of seeds of the tree which was on the verge of extinction , though this may have been exacerbated by the depredations of introduced monkeys , which take unripe fruits . |
| 8 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 9 | This may be dealt with in some way in the contract in that a certain notice period may have been specified and this may have been adhered to by the parties . |
| 10 | Attempts were made by Wulfhere to detach the kingdom of Lindsey from its dependency on the north Anglian king , for Chad probably and Wynfrith ( 672-c. 674 ) certainly , successive bishops of Lichfield , exercised episcopal authority over the Lindesfara ( HE IV , 3 ) and the political foundations for this may have been laid in the 660s . |
| 11 | Those of the gentry and clergy who perceived this may have been driven by instinct and may have over-reacted . |
| 12 | Butler-Sloss LJ said that the meaning of the words " trade secrets " had developed since Herbert Morris v Saxelby and was now interpreted in the wider context of " highly confidential information of a non-technical or non-scientific nature … " . 1.4 The employee 's skill and knowledge Although the courts are anxious to uphold the employer 's right to have his business secrets protected they have ensured that the employee is not prevented from using , once he has left his employer , the general skill and knowledge which he has acquired during employment even though this may have been acquired at some cost to the employer . |
| 13 | This may have been used in conjunction with a net , or on its own from an open boat . |
| 14 | This may have been prompted by its loss of oil-export flexibility , caused first by Iranian naval action in 1980 , then compounded by Syria 's pipeline closure two years later . |