Example sentences of "[adj] may have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not ideal , Ah 'm told , but that may have been part of the test . ’ |
| 2 | The plants were generally bushy shrubs , but some may have been climbers , and others robust enough to form small trees . |
| 3 | This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions . |
| 4 | Müncheberg 's second victim crashed near a crossroads at Wardia with the pilot apparently dead ; this may have been Mortimer 's aircraft . |
| 5 | This may have been coincidence or , as we noted earlier , a deliberate ploy to enhance his own standing . |
| 6 | This may have been Painswick near Stroud , which has a long-standing tradition of clipping , as he was in Gloucestershire at one time . |
| 7 | This may have been Swegen 's response to the attempts by Æthelred to get Norman help reported by Henry of Huntingdon under 1009 . |
| 8 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 9 | These may have been farmsteads or hamlets , but they were certainly not large or extensive enough to be villages , whatever their status or internal arrangements . |
| 10 | From a commercial viewpoint , this was clearly intolerable , although socially these may have been lines in very remote areas where rail was an important link . |
| 11 | From 1981 to 1986 the total population of Kosovo rose by about 220,000 , and of this increase about 200,000 may have been Albanians . |