Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] may have " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of your memoir is a quotation from a letter by John Adams to his wife : ‘ I must study politics and war , that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy . |
| 2 | But my judgement may have been clouded … |
| 3 | Perhaps he did not like to argue with Jean-Claude , suspecting that my lover may have been put fully in the picture . |
| 4 | I did get into a car the other day to drive to London to the Imperial War Museum to see an exhibition of work by Tony Carter and was excited by it , but my appreciation may have something to do with the fact that he was a student of mine so I have been familiar with his ideas over many years . |
| 5 | My husband may have come across them before . |
| 6 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 7 | For one thing , any hopes my father may have had that to meet the General in person would arouse a sense of respect or sympathy to leaven his feelings against him proved without foundation . |
| 8 | It 's beginning to look as though one of my rivals may have stolen it . ’ |
| 9 | Years of my life may have passed in this enforced study of wallpaper . |
| 10 | I trust I have been able to dilute any misgivings that my letter may have stirred . |
| 11 | My mother may have been trapped by conventional circumstances . |
| 12 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 13 | Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting . |
| 14 | Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting . |
| 15 | Certainly insurance companies , however widespread their operations may have become , were in important respects City institutions . |
| 16 | As such , the ethnic minorities represent a major demographic strength for parts of urban Britain , though at the same time their presence may have hastened the exodus of better-off whites and certainly gives rise to a very difficult set of policy issues ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 17 | Ventricular extrasystoles may occur more commonly in patients with ischaemic heart disease , and their presence may have more sinister implications . |
| 18 | Josie 's mood seemed okay , which suggested to Lucy that any problems that her presence may have caused must now have been smoothed over . |
| 19 | News of their ill-luck may have dampened the post-match celebrations at Branch Road last night after Derry rattled up the highest score of the round , 61–17 against north west neighbours Omagh . |
| 20 | Then again , he talked with her because he longed to satisfy to meet her needs , as a human being she 'd aspiration , she 'd hope , she 'd desires and as she looked back on her life , some of them may have been fulfilled , some of her plans may have been realized , but there must have been an awful emptiness , and awful hollowness about so much . |
| 21 | Their action may have resulted from purely local causes : there had been many border clashes . |
| 22 | It drew their attention to the fact that some of their clients may have a hearing problem without expressly saying so . |
| 23 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 24 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 25 | He said exactly what happened would never be known , but two children in their car may have distracted their father who was driving . |
| 26 | The coroner Nicholas Gardner said the Metro driver 's attempts to regain control of her car may have made matters worse . |
| 27 | Bear in mind , however , that although their President may have invited you personally , many of his elecorate may be vague about precisely where you 're coming from . |
| 28 | Whatever else its effect may have been , the cold shower was certainly therapeutic . |
| 29 | The large buildings at Zakro , Mallia and Phaistos possess plans that have many features in common , though with significant variations ; their designs may have been based loosely on that of Knossos or they may have evolved independently from a common set of functions . |
| 30 | The general consensus was that , while their marriage may have had its ups and downs , they were now amicable companions pursuing separate interests but united by a common duty . |