Example sentences of "[adj] he may have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sad in several ways , not just because it springs from genuine human grief but because poor Uncle Ted , no matter how theologically illiterate he may have been , deserves better . |
| 2 | Even apart from his experience , his descent admirably equipped him for kingship : son of the impetuous , vacillating and prodigal Henry III he may have been , but he showed more affinity with his grandfather and great-grandfather , King John and Henry II . |
| 3 | The " heresy " was that " if a person engaged to act for a client ought to act fairly and impartially towards the person with whom his client is dealing , then he is immune from being sued by his clienthowever negligent he may have been " . |
| 4 | If the hiatus is serious he may have to shut down all or part of the system or it may trip automatically and the operator 's task is to observe/control the shut-down to a quiescent state . |
| 5 | And Rosenberg : ‘ Utterly misguided he may have been , but he was honest in his own belief in what he was doing . ’ |
| 6 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 7 | or being older he may have remembered times before that . |
| 8 | A Lord Spiritual he may have been , but not devoid of earthly ambitions and desire for wealth . |
| 9 | Successful he may have been in October-December 1976 at using the full Cabinet as a forum for crisis management , but Callaghan was not tempted to extend the practice in more tranquil times . |
| 10 | It is possible he may have observed something you were not in a position to see , ’ Rose explained diplomatically . |
| 11 | I infer from that he may have had reasons other than professional ones for taking on the employment you offered him . |
| 12 | Given that he may have fallen victim of an essentialist fallacy , is he not right in asserting that marriage as always understood is a relationship involving a man and a woman , commonly so defined ? |
| 13 | If these are totally incompatible he may have to resign of course , but then |
| 14 | However over-the-top he may have seemed , it was a vignette I could not have envisaged in Prague . |
| 15 | ‘ No , no , of course not , ’ he hurriedly corrects himself , aware he may have caused offence . |