Example sentences of "they may have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s .
2 The Durotriges , with most probably the southern branch of the Dubunni , gave the Romans serious trouble , so it can be assumed that they may have supplied a strong detachment to help oppose the Medway crossing .
3 There 's concern they may have copied a similar incident , screened on the television series ’ The Bill ’ , just the day before .
4 But we do know that the most obvious surviving monuments , the stone circles , take that form , and we can at least speculate that they may have performed a similar function .
5 For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent .
6 Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty .
7 The similarity of their design to cup-and-ring patterns is striking and suggests that they may have had a ritual function .
8 Later these people reached all the inhabited areas of the Pacific and possibly America , it having been argued that they may have had a considerable influence on the rain-forest peoples of the New World , evidence coming from great similarities between certain groups in Borneo and central America , similarities greater than between these peoples and their geographic neighbours .
9 They may have lacked a proper use of the King 's English , and a knowledge of the finer points of etiquette and accepted behaviour in conforming to certain standards .
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