Example sentences of "may [verb] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : In my own little chapel , which you may see was put in order on purpose . |
| 2 | However , do it yourself equipment like homemade trickle filters and protein skimmers may have been constructed from plastic that is less than ideal . |
| 3 | Work of this kind demonstrated the significance of the Bronze and Iron Ages in reducing the forest cover of the British landscape particularly in upland Britain , where blanket peat growth may have been influenced by deforestation rather than simply by climatic change ( Simmons , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | We are concerned that at every level of government — in Europe , in Whitehall and in local authorities — some regulations may have been adopted in answer to legitimate concerns , but without proper regard to their overall impact on businesses and individuals . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir Ralph may have been slain by peasant leaders plotting rebellion . |
| 6 | A further small point : we may have been taught at school to avoid ending written sentences with a preposition , but the above sentence , apart from replacing ‘ commence ’ by ‘ begin ’ , sounds more natural if we do in fact end it with the preposition . |
| 7 | As for the fuller versions of the migration , as preserved in Fredegar 's Chronicle and in the Liber Historiae Francorum , they may have been written in response to the origin legends of the Goths , which had been developed by Cassiodorus and preserved by Jordanes . |
| 8 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 9 | Levi was interested in action , purpose , work , and capable of them : and the capacity may have been formed in contention with a desire to withdraw and perhaps to give up . |
| 10 | It is possible that the ‘ villa ’ may have been planned for viticulture , with the use of steep valley sides for vine terraces ; however , no traces have been found . |
| 11 | Very rarely HIV may have been transmitted in breastmilk and women in the UK who are HIV antibody positive are advised not to breastfeed . |
| 12 | The ad may alter or undermine an unfavourable attitude or group of attitudes to the brand ( which may have been based on ignorance or emotion … ) . |
| 13 | Thus in some areas much of what we see in later landscapes may have been determined in outline before 4000 BC . |
| 14 | In this case the survivors may have been weakened beyond recovery . |
| 15 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 16 | For example , the tribunal may have been motivated by resentment at a particular member 's share of the market , or have suspended the member , not for bona fide reasons , but because of the opportunity it gave their firms to acquire some of the suspended member 's customers . |
| 17 | Initially , this may create no problems because the accountant may have been motivated by interest and a desire to improve his own efficiency at work but problems could arise later if the accountant moves to another firm or discovers that his program is commercially viable . |
| 18 | Another possibility — unlikely perhaps but a possibility nonetheless — is that the terrain nearby may have been treated with rat poison , and an unmuzzled ferret can be fatally poisoned by eating a recently-poisoned rat . |
| 19 | With this in mind , many companies give the customer the benefit of the doubt when this does not involve high cost , even though they suspect that the fault may be caused by inappropriate use of the product on the part of the customer ; for example , garden fork manufacturers may replace prematurely broken forks , even though the break may have been caused by work for which the fork was not designed . |
| 20 | The octopus may have been speared by torchlight at night , just as it is today . |
| 21 | Sam Beggs , director of the Australian Pigeon Fanciers ' Association , said : ‘ A lot of the birds may have been killed by gun clubs . ’ |
| 22 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 23 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Phillips 's omission of a price expectations term from his original study may have been warranted in practice owing to the low rates of inflation which were experienced from the Great War onwards ; but when it comes to analyzing inflationary processes in general it is invalid . |
| 25 | Whilst the orgiastic dancers may have been stimulated by alcohol , it is likely that opium was used to heighten the states of meditation during long vigils and bouts of prayer , the curious seclusions which the ancients called ‘ incubation ’ . |
| 26 | He was a patient with well documented milk sensitivity that was not persistent and may have been related to activity of disease . |
| 27 | One patient suffered with transitory lethargy during treatment , which may have been related to radiotherapy . |
| 28 | By the time the monthly magazines come to publish , the news value of the story will have completely disappeared and the story , if it is a good one , may have been worked to death . |
| 29 | Old scores may have been settled with victory over Tipperary , but he 's quick to emphasise that Galway have won nothing yet . |
| 30 | Old scores may have been settled with victory over Tipperary , but he 's quick to emphasise that Galway have won nothing yet . |