Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] may have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obviously irrelevant to speculate on what if anything was in the mind of the clerk or other subordinate officer who actually received the money , or in the mind of the officer ( whoever he or she may have been ) who paid it into the bank to the defendants ' credit . |
| 2 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 3 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 4 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |
| 5 | It may be that the temples , through their bureaucracy , were able to set quotas on production in the rural villages ; these may have been specified taxes , or tribute , or they may have been expressed as required offerings . |
| 6 | The swords may have been ceremonial , or they may have been used in an acrobatic ritual sword dance . |
| 7 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 8 | The guidelines may not have been sufficiently widely disseminated , or they may have been viewed as impractical or unrealistic . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 10 | Under his breath , so that Earl could not hear him , he murmured ‘ Holy cow ! ’ ( ’ or it may have been a little more graphic ’ ) . |
| 11 | For some reason both the adjoining clerical incumbents wished to call his soul their own ; or it may have been his jumble that they wanted . |
| 12 | It may have been jet lag or it may have been the excitement . |
| 13 | But there they were , in their thousands , or it may have been millions , and they were a horrific threat to the survival of humanity on this planet . |
| 14 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 15 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 16 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 17 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 18 | Or it may have been that the shares were not purchased but were subscribed for and were issued to the investors by Euramco . |
| 19 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 20 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 21 | What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar . |
| 22 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 23 | But then you flew back from Calgary I think or it may have been Vancouver . |
| 24 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 25 | Or he may have been stripped to delay any identification , I suppose . |
| 26 | Perhaps the individuals involved were too obtuse in applying conventional planning models with little regard for local feeling , and they may have been less than adroit in their handling of public opinion . |
| 27 | These men were in touch with Edward Balliol , the heir of the Scottish king dispossessed by Edward I , and they may have been planning some move to recover their position in either England or Scotland . |
| 28 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
| 29 | At least , in the circumstances of this play , things certainly would n't have been any better had Marco not acted in this way , and they may have been worse . |
| 30 | It gave him everything and he may have been genuinely intending good . |