Example sentences of "[det] may [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 2 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 3 | ‘ If you mean he liked men as well as women , I think that may well have been true , ’ said Mrs Baggley robustly . |
| 4 | That may even have been an underestimate since the count was made mainly in the dry , lowland areas whereas numbers of elephants may still have existed in undeveloped parts of the central mountain massif . |
| 5 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 6 | A single kiln , for instance , probably implies a potter 's presence for only a short period in the life of a settlement some may even have been itinerant or at best semi-residential , moving on once local demand had been satisfied . |
| 7 | We have already seen that this may simply have been a way of saying that Wulfstan had secured an undertaking that they were going to abandon practices which he found displeasing . |
| 8 | The rear rim of the hole in Triceratops ’ skull grew back into a bony frill on which the membrane was attached ( although this may also have been a display structure ) , so that the muscles could enlarge . |
| 9 | Archaeology suggests that this may also have been the case in prehistoric times . |
| 10 | Liver biopsy showed a predominantly T cell mononuclear cell infiltrate and although the possibility of lymphoma was raised it was considered that this may also have been caused by an inflammatory process . |
| 11 | Indeed , with farming especially brisk and with recruitment affecting the labour market , the French war years were associated with " buoyant and rising " female wages This may also have been the case in Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Rutland . |
| 12 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 13 | This may not have been immediately obvious from the results of the 1935 General Election , for the Party had only just accepted Attlee as its leader on the eve of the election . |
| 14 | As S. G. F. Brandon has pointed out , the great popularity of the cult of Osiris meant , in effect , the adoption by the Egyptians of a definite concept of time , although this may not have been consciously recognized . |
| 15 | This may not have been the explicit aim of the programmes outlined below , but the consequences for the inner cities were real enough . |
| 16 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 17 | For the control practices , with their low rate of cross boundary referrals , this may not have been such a concern . |
| 18 | However , this may not have been much of a choice . |
| 19 | This may not have been very constructive , but , except towards the newspaper proprietors , it did not sound particularly bitter . |
| 20 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle first refers to his presence under 994 , but this may not have been his first visit . |
| 21 | This may well have been a contributory factor in the prevalence of death in child-birth . |
| 22 | This may well have been the case in September 1987 but I thought most reviewers were scared to dive in and uncover the record 's moments of uncoordinated parody for fear of being trampled to death by hordes of rampant Smiths devotees . |
| 23 | This may well have been the aircraft seen to crash , and although Kennett and Waghorn were credited posthumously with a Ju88 probably destroyed , this could well have been their victim , no Ju88s being reported missing on this date . |
| 24 | This may well have been the aircraft attacked by Westmacott . |
| 25 | 4/St.G 1 reported that one of its Ju87s crash-landed at Comiso suffering 70% damage , and this may well have been the victim of their attack . |
| 26 | Halphen , who edited the text , believed that here the author was drawing on a vernacular epic ; this may well have been so , for in the late eleventh-century manuscript of the Song of Roland , Geoffrey featured as Charlemagne 's standard-bearer . |
| 27 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 28 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 29 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 30 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |