Example sentences of "[noun sg] may have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the buyer may have agreed to buy a spes ( i.e. a chance ) . |
| 2 | ‘ While I respectfully agree that recommendations of a committee may not help much when there is a possibility that Parliament may have decided to do something different , where there is no such possibility , as where the draft Bill has been enacted without alteration , in my opinion it can safely be assumed that it was Parliament 's intention to do what the committee recommended and to achieve the object the committee had in mind . |
| 3 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 4 | Detectives believe the klller may have tried to burn the bodies in an attempt to hide the evidence . |
| 5 | But the SMMT was heartened by good attendances at the Birmingham Motor Show last month and this renewed interest in the industry may have helped boost the October sales . |
| 6 | Blood may have continued to ooze for some time after death , though less so here than from a dependent part . |
| 7 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 8 | The prospect of such a deal may have helped to boost Colombian exports to Mexico by 27% last year . |
| 9 | In that case the contemporary seal may have served to validate the emissary . |
| 10 | The judge may have tried to throw you with an interruption partly because you were reading your argument in a monotonous way . |
| 11 | If there are only one or two sedimentological theses in one year , the list compiler may have chosen to combine this category with that for stratigraphy . |
| 12 | It is believed the young boy may have become entangled in the ropes of the swing . |
| 13 | Just as curry may have become identified as a traditional British dish with the blurring of ethnic and other socio-economic and demographic trends , there is an equal and opposite trend to identify positively regional specialities such as West Country farmhouse cheddar or Welsh lamb or Scottish beef as offering that bit more than the ‘ commodity ’ product . |
| 14 | When cimetidine was given together with histamine , blockade of histamine 2 receptor may have reversed histamine stimulated growth . |
| 15 | The vendor may have agreed to sell land with vacant possession , but at the date set for completion be unable or unwilling to provide it . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) Fourth , although it is unusual the purchaser may have agreed to take over some liabilities such as payments under leasing arrangements or after sales repairs . |
| 17 | It remains true that sport is really all about competing well rather than winning , but when defeat becomes too common , particularly in activities in which we think we should excel , the moment may have come to do something drastic . |
| 18 | The revival of activity occasioned by the 1918 Act and its redistribution may have helped to revive local Unionist parties , but in fact the war had a less serious effect than might be expected . |
| 19 | These can be fairly reliable , but what your friend may have neglected to tell you is to what wind direction the water is best suited . |
| 20 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 21 | By the time the season comes to an end , the pair and their incubator may have managed to produce as many as thirty-five chicks . |
| 22 | The surgeon may have refused to operate on the passenger because it was her own baby . |
| 23 | Richard seems to have played an important part in the peace and truce talks , and as he went to and fro between the armies his father may have begun to wonder just what these exchanges meant . |
| 24 | The recent ENO production of Königskinder may have helped to alert interest to Humperdinck as the composer or more than Hänsel und Gretel , and those who enjoyed the work will find the splendid overture and three other pieces here . |
| 25 | There was nothing particularly remarkable about these views ; though some brave women in each age may have tried to overstep the limits set for them . |
| 26 | The approach may have risked inhibiting the searcher 's behaviour but it offered continuity and some close-ups of individual steps of the search . |
| 27 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |
| 28 | It was made clear , furthermore , that the Society did not regard the houses of businessmen or the ‘ newly rich ’ as ‘ distinguished ’ , and in my opinion this piece of out-dated thinking crucially undermined any serious authority the Society may have achieved to arbitrate on standards in our profession . |
| 29 | This admission to residential care restored some external order in John 's life , which in turn may have helped to re-establish a view of himself as someone capable of personal relations with others . |
| 30 | And although the spirit may have promised to remove its baneful influence once its requirements are met , relapses are very common . |