Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] may [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes . |
| 2 | Estimates suggest that the peasantry as a whole was giving up over one-third of its total rice output for much of the period , but in some areas it may have been much higher . |
| 3 | The medical treatments for some of the illnesses you may experience are improving all the time . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 5 | Any fears you may have are , believe me , like Maidstone United , completely groundless . |
| 6 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 7 | Any additional comments you may have are welcome , but please note that this Directive is mandatory within the UK . |
| 8 | He is about parcels he may have been given . |
| 9 | Curtailed in his researches he may have been , but Gould still came away from the parched furnace of the scrubs with some of the rarest novelties yet of his collection and a vast number of specimens of every description . |
| 10 | As for [ h ] -dropping — I have suggested elsewhere ( J. Milroy , 1983 ) that in the Middle Ages it may have been a marker of more cultured speech . |
| 11 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 12 | As children we may have been made to feel inadequate , silly or useless because we were never praised . |
| 13 | As a result of these difficulties , the second approach was adopted of breaking bone in an artificial environment that simulated the stresses it may have been subjected to under natural conditions . |
| 14 | I accept that whatever good looks I may possess are artful , concocted at large by paint and persona . |
| 15 | Time and time again he will charge for the snags which are in range , including some of which you may be unaware , or others you may think are out of range . |
| 16 | Women it may have been Women 's Institute Guild or something or I du n no . |
| 17 | You may find that you sleep better than before ( and can throw away any sleeping pills you may have been taking ) , that you have got rid of that nagging headache or that the muscles in your neck and shoulders suddenly feel warm and relaxed . |
| 18 | It is by no means clear , however , with what particular plate tectonic events they may have been associated , either directly or indirectly . |