Example sentences of "[noun] may have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FT-SE 100 Index continued to sail into unchartered waters and a further £3bn flooded into the market on hopes that the recession may have finally blown itself out . |
| 2 | However , the hard part of Operation Restore Hope may have only just begun . |
| 3 | Note that the top level index may have as few as one . |
| 4 | A sharp drop in population coupled with forest regeneration in the Basin of Pátzcuaro may have significantly reduced erosion . |
| 5 | Compaction after sedimentation may have considerably reduced any angle of cross lamination measured from grain orientation ; the significance of this can be estimated from compaction features visible in the same thin sections ( Section 5.3.2 ) . |
| 6 | Pottery and commercial tinplate may have roughly the same tensile strength but if a cup is dropped on the floor it will shatter , perhaps almost explosively . |
| 7 | Derwent ( 1982 ) suggests that current upper tropospheric aircraft operations may have already led to such an increase in the total ozone column by up to several per cent . |
| 8 | Thus , criterion-referenced assessment may have both formative and summative functions . |
| 9 | A part may have more than one function . |
| 10 | A part may have more than one function . |
| 11 | In commercial terms , The Wedding Present may have already reached their zenith and the manner in which they have done so is fantastically inspirational . |
| 12 | Where the husband is not legally represented or has disappeared , then obviously the wife 's solicitors should have complete conduct of the conveyancing and in these circumstances the wife 's solicitors may have already asked the court to give an order to this effect ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 13 | The ballvalve stem may have both metal and plastic washers each side ( plastic closest to the cistern ) : the tank connectors for the cold feeds and overflow pipes have plastic washers only . |
| 14 | Also , some groups may have so many interconnections that such a clustering approach is impossible . |
| 15 | Thus , the criteria used in planning decisions at the local level may have very little to do with national ideology . |
| 16 | Doubtless words do sometimes have emotive effects , and some ethical words may have fairly standard such effects in certain communities . |
| 17 | AD 10 at this particular place ; it seems to have had a brief existence ; it may have been a Political embarrassment to Cunobelinus at some stage in his early career , or the traders may have just moved elsewhere . |
| 18 | Alternatively , the DGSE may have unofficially told MI6 what it planned to do in New Zealand . |
| 19 | Thus , by the time of diagnosis of diabetes in middle age , these subjects may have already had 30 years or more of exposure to these atherogenic factors ( Jarrett , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Added to this , at the time of retrieval subjects may have simply assumed that since this was an experiment about risk , the experimenter really wanted them to recall the risky situations . |
| 21 | Even though some bushes may have well advanced young shoots they will still respond with strong new growth . |
| 22 | Candidates may have only one copy of the Background Notes for use throughout the examination . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the consumers themselves and some of the organisations which represent them have fallen into the trap of confusing short-term expediencies with long-term solutions and now find that this focus on concessions may have actually distorted the argument for a decent income in later life . |
| 24 | At the other extreme , the parties may have expressly agreed only as to which goods were being sold and how much the price was . |
| 25 | Typically , the parties may have very different views of the situation , and of the issues at stake . |
| 26 | As the largest music distributor in the USA , Kaman are already responsible for Takamine and Hamer guitars as well as Ovation , the original synthetic bowl-back guitar that Charles Kaman himself invented back in 1966 ( some readers may have already spotted a close connection between Ovation and Trace Acoustic in ads featuring players like Adrian Legg and Robert Fripp ) . |
| 27 | This campaign may have definitively proved that HIV and AIDS is not a specifically gay issue . |
| 28 | There is every reason to believe that this degree of movement was typical of the corn-growing regions , but we have to constantly bear in mind that one part of England may have very different experiences from another and that even neighbouring communities might have contrasting stories to tell . |
| 29 | Turner may have finally made up his mind to move after being dropped from the Newbridge side which travelled to Swansea on Saturday after Newport announced he was on his way to Rodney Parade . |
| 30 | Editor , — Stephen Brearley argues that the Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee may have grossly underestimated the need for increasing the intake of medical schools . |