Example sentences of "[adj] may have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitney retrospective may have helped sell three good Basquiats at Sotheby 's , though two difficult , insubstantial pieces failed at Christie 's . |
| 2 | After fifteen years some may have emigrated died … would all of them spring to the colours when called ? ’ |
| 3 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 4 | This may have helped draw on the Enemy 's hasty stroke , thinks Gandalf at III , 88 . |
| 5 | All this may have helped to clear the way for Dan Quayle , the much lampooned vice-president who dodged the draft by joining the National Guard . |
| 6 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 7 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |