Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] may have " in BNC.

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1 Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives .
2 Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives .
3 And with Forest still at the bottom of the Premier League , Clough insisted : ‘ If I 'd waited to offer him the contract after Saturday he may have blown it .
4 As a result , Mr Nicholson himself may have received more than $50m .
5 Very few pagan cemeteries were in use throughout the period , and those that were tend to be the large examples in eastern England which may have been centralised depositories , not belonging to individual settlements .
6 There was a port called Minoa on the south-west coast of Sicily which may have been a Crete-controlled trading station .
7 The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago commodity exchanges are looking at programme trades carried out last July which may have flouted market rules and contributed to sudden movements in both the Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 futures index .
8 She can complete a course double with BAGGRAVE LAD ( 3.15 ) in the Orbital Centre NH Flat race and earlier at Ludlow she may have initiated a treble by winning with her dual bumper winner RUN TO FORM ( 12.30 ) .
9 After her experience at Edgcote she may have doubted this prospect .
10 There are other problems , apart from the fact that Harrison 's evidence dates from 1790 and if there was a regular working pattern in Bristol it may have been of more recent origin than he suggests .
11 Sometime after her American tour in 1910 her Russian protector , Victor Dandré , appears to have become involved in some financial scandal in St Petersburg which may have influenced Pavlova 's decision in 1912 to buy Ivy House in Golders Green , London .
12 Franco himself may have realized this , for his erstwhile enthusiasm for Arrese and his project began to wane in the second half of 1956 , as opposition to it became more widespread and vocal among the non-Falangist sectors of the regime .
13 Since most of England south of the Trent was now in a state of cultivation , there was little opportunity for drovers to strike across country and create new lines of movement , though on the moorlands north of the Trent they may have done so .
14 In 1018 the English paid the very large sum of £82,500 , and came to an agreement with the Danes at Oxford which may have marked the formal end of hostilities ; the same year part of Cnut 's fleet sailed to Denmark .
15 But publications in America and Europe which may have been approached to buy were being wary on the subject yesterday .
16 From Oxford he may have travelled into the south-west .
17 Having been bitten by PW it may have made Deloitte shy of Touche .
18 George you may have seen in a wine bar , often in the company of younger lawyers ; or at the theatre , with a blonde ; or on the steps of the Garrick , with or without a blonde .
19 ‘ But if we are not able to obtain all the slots we 've applied for at Heathrow we may have to consider cutting back , ’ he said .
20 For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated .
21 Again at the end of his career Attaingnant , and after him his widow , published similar Livres de danceries ( 1550–5 ) compiled by Claude Gervaise which may have suggested Francesco Bendusi 's Opera Nova de Balli a quatro ( Venice , 1553 ) .
22 Bordeaux is traditionally the arena for a thrilling mass sprint finish and on the long straight ride through the flatlands of Les Landes we may have the awesome sight of the whole peloton at full speed , driving along at up to 60 kilometres per hour , not in pursuit of a breakaway , but in anticipation of the finish .
23 Sidney Lee in his life of Shakespeare , 1908 edition , attributes his accurate use of legal terms to observation of his father 's legal battles and early association with members of the Inns of Court and there is also a suggestion that on his arrival in London he may have been employed as a clerk for a lawyer .
24 However , there are different kinds of planners — the Orcadian planners seem to have been unreceptive to public opinion whereas in Shetland they may have been younger and more immature but they listened to complaints .
25 Erm , I recognise that erm , within the report it does state erm , that there is the cost of it , and erm , and in Lancashire it may have cost three million pounds etc , it does n't say what it specifically was .
26 To be fair to John he may have thought he was on an already completed route , but the absence of the first bolt , a well established sign of a ‘ projet ’ , should have been respected .
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