Example sentences of "may [adv] have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this stage , you may already have booked into a dog training class . |
| 2 | The largest so far identified lies west of Ryknild Street , emphasizing the fact that the road may once have acted as a settlement boundary . |
| 3 | It may possibly have begun as a baptistry or succeeded a cult centre at the spring head . |
| 4 | ( 7 ) Organisations such as the Consumers ' Association , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and television programmes such as Watchdog may possibly have dealt with a similar problem to yours in the past . |
| 5 | The lower transfusion requirements in the regulated group reflected milder illness with less investigational blood loss but may also have related to a greater initial endowment of red cells and their precursors . |
| 6 | Around the east side of the defences , a possible flood bank may also have doubled as a bypass road , though this is probably relatively late . |
| 7 | It may also have acted as a service centre for the nearby imperial estate centred on Combe Down and for the numerous rich villas which grew up in the vicinity . |
| 8 | Once established , however , the theoretical stage seems to have grown in status and size , and may even have led to a relative decline in the importance and quality of the practical stage . |
| 9 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |
| 10 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 11 | Possibly there was some breakdown of control when he entered London , which may well have contributed to a reaction against him on the part of the citizens . |
| 12 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 13 | Here he may well have acted as a diplomatic go-between in introducing them to the Roman traders , whose imports have been found at their main centre , the great oppidum at Bagendon near Cirencester . |
| 14 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 15 | When Gundovald first arrived in Gaul he apparently had an considerable quantity of treasure with him , which must suggest that he initially had the backing of the Byzantine emperor , whose concerns about the Lombards in Italy may well have stretched to a desire to see a close ally established in Francia . |
| 16 | The President may indeed have settled on a programme of health benefits and how to finance them . |
| 17 | Public opinion , though skewed to the right on many issues , has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989 , and may actually have moved in a contrary direction . |
| 18 | The Mid-Ulster dialects may therefore have preserved to a great extent an older general English vowel pattern , and they may help us to project knowledge of the present on the past . |
| 19 | She may subsequently have worked as a governess or tutor . |