Example sentences of "[pron] may have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was survived by his widow and seven sons and five daughters , some of whom may have been from his previous marriage . |
| 2 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 3 | But most importantly , no information was given on the location of recurrence of the disease which may have been of prognostic importance . |
| 4 | This , together with an appreciation of the steeper slopes , soil erosion and the local changes in level and aspect , make for a finer assessment of the subtler aspects which may have been of great significance to the original selector 's choice of site for the particular settlement under study . |
| 5 | Others , myself among them , are not convinced that Cromwell was the sole architect of the Privy Council , which may have been in part the consequence of his fall rather than of his predominance . |
| 6 | They also look at wider issues such as their own up-bringing which may have been in an addictive family and may have led to many grief or abuse or other issues that may still need to be processed with a sponsor or a professional counsellor if there is to be further progress in recovery . |
| 7 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
| 8 | The third wing , which united the other two , possessed heated rooms which may have been in common use . |
| 9 | Police have appealed for any witnesses who may have been in the area in the early hours of Saturday . |
| 10 | ‘ We will be talking to contractors working in the Town Hall and any member of the public who may have been in the building . ’ |
| 11 | Police have appealed for witnesses who may have been in the area to come forward . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe you may have been under the influence . ’ |
| 13 | You may have been of course . |
| 14 | You see you may have been in sales but in advertise this is erm |
| 15 | However much ignorant opposition there may have been at first to women taking part in public life , there are comparatively few cooperative men or women who would now oppose women being poor law guardians or members of educational communities . |
| 16 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 17 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |
| 18 | Whatever refereeing failures there may have been by Alf Buksh at Tottenham on Saturday and most critics believe Mr Buksh booked too few Arsenal players too late Graham 's remarks afterwards did not befit an Arsenal manager . |
| 19 | They may have been on the street , or coming out of bed-and-breakfast lodgings . |
| 20 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 21 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 22 | New boys , however grand they may have been before entering the House , go to the back of the queue . |
| 23 | ‘ A work must enact its own meaning ’ and ‘ Never trust the teller , trust the tale ’ — such Lawrentian tags , garbled as they may have been from the writings of the Master , could inspire and cheer the literate young of the 1940s . |
| 24 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 25 | they may they may have been in your list of documents , but copies of them may or may not of been handed over but |
| 26 | But they may have been in , in Changchun and around Changshun . |
| 27 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 28 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 29 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 30 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |