Example sentences of "[pron] may [verb] [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan Waters , too , was left in peace apart from the following two minor incidents which may have been attempts to impress upon her that she had not moved beyond the reach of the long arm of the undercover services . |
| 2 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 3 | Of these , control of the landscape is perhaps the most important , and hence at all times the administration or ordered management of the land was carried out from certain places , which may have been chiefs ' residences , tribal capitals , kingly , lordly , or religious establishments . |
| 4 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 5 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 6 | Police said there may have been plans to plant the bombs elsewhere in Calcutta to try to reignite Hindu-Moslem riots which hit India in December and January , claiming nearly 2,000 lives . |
| 7 | And yesterday as a big hunt was launched for her attackers , police revealed there may have been women in the gang . |
| 8 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 9 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 10 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 11 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 12 | Thus while those TANU members concerned to achieve effective communication for the purpose of education and development preferred the press to radio , whose full potential they failed to recognize , there may have been others who realized that radio had powers to reach people which TANU had not . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , but there may have been others . ’ |
| 14 | These finds suggest at least two methods of fishing , with line and net , and there may have been others . |
| 15 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 16 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 17 | There may have been queues in the streets when Derrida came to Oxford recently . |
| 18 | But there may have been incidents where we have been involved . |
| 19 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 20 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 21 | That Mr er did live at the flat erm with his wife , there may have been children but we did n't know for certain and that the previous night two male persons appeared to have been there . |
| 22 | David Schramm , of the University of Chicago , along with Chris Hill from Fermilab , the particle-physics laboratory just outside Chicago , has recently suggested that there may have been transitions after the microwave background was emitted . |
| 23 | The banker sat at an enormous desk surrounded by acres of carpet , in a room hung with what looked like Dutch Old Masters , though I suppose they may have been reproductions . |
| 24 | But in addition there was apparently some connection between their grandparents so they may have been cousins also . |
| 25 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 26 | They may have been colleagues , school friends or bowls partners with whom we shared moments of laughter , persecution or triumph . |
| 27 | Women it may have been Women 's Institute Guild or something or I du n no . |
| 28 | Oh it may have been all-nighters but this |
| 29 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 30 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |