Example sentences of "may [verb] [be] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only lasting effect it may have is on the careers of some of the people involved . |
| 2 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 3 | The various cups and horns in graves may have been for the consumption of alcoholic liquid , including beor , ealu , medu and win ( Fell 1975 ) . |
| 4 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 5 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 6 | It may have been at the chapel that Father began to court Mother . |
| 7 | Female involvement may have been at the fringes , though what took place in this ‘ marginal , area may turn out to have been more important than long-forgotten events on the field of play . |
| 8 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 9 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 10 | Although the number of Poles may have been on the increase there was very little sign in Prussia that they were organising to reinstate an independent Poland . |
| 11 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 12 | They may have been on the street , or coming out of bed-and-breakfast lodgings . |
| 13 | He may have been on the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier , 1529–30 . |
| 14 | Science and education may have been on the minds of the panel , but the youngsters preferred to range over topics such as nuclear disarmament and the ethics of energy . |
| 15 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 16 | If external then the situation caused it and it may have been outside the control of the individual . |
| 17 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 18 | ‘ I believe you may have been under the influence . ’ |
| 19 | Many felt that what had happened may have been within the laws of the game but was certainly outside the spirit , and could have serious consequences for the rest of the tour . |
| 20 | The Judge said the gang may have been in a state of panic , but the police were unarmed and it was miracle they were n't seriously injured . |
| 21 | His older brother Alexander ( died 28 December 1592 ) may have been in the household of Lady Dorothy Stafford . |
| 22 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 23 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |
| 24 | In a society so deeply divided by class ( and gender and race ) inequalities , and increasingly dominated by the privatised technological culture of late capitalism , the social purpose orientation alone is now inadequate , however admirable it may have been in the past . |
| 25 | A fondness for dumb beasts may have been in the Hauxwell blood , because her Uncle Tommy , not a sentimental man in his later years , was a compassionate ‘ amateur ’ vet in Baldersdale . |
| 26 | ‘ We will be talking to contractors working in the Town Hall and any member of the public who may have been in the building . ’ |
| 27 | It is , for all that , an indispensable preliminary now , whatever may have been in the case in ( say ) the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Writing is made to seem a small betrayal , as it may have been in the life of Prentice 's Uncle Rory , who makes a prize-winning living as the author of travel books about ‘ unlikely destinations ’ and who is absent from the grandmother 's funeral where the story begins ( with a predictable bang ) . |
| 29 | Police believe the body may have been in the field for several weeks and they 're still investigating the cause of death . |
| 30 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |