Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] may [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 2 | By saying this , I am accepting that Geraldine herself may well have engineered the engagement . |
| 3 | The test items themselves may indeed have been specified in terms of their subject matter but a norm-referenced test result is given as a measure of performance rather than a description of what examinees know . |
| 4 | The pope himself may even have hoped that the fall of communism might inspire decadent Western Europe to renew its faith , and help spread Catholicism into the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | The material itself may also have broken or be rusting . |