Example sentences of "who may [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 2 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 3 | More information was sought , and they were particularly keen to hear from the companion of the killer , who may not have realised until too late that his friend was carrying a knife . |
| 4 | They were particularly keen to hear from the companion of the killer , who may not have realised until too late that his friend was carrying a knife . |
| 5 | Nihilist is the case but it risks confusion between Dostoevsky and Turgenev who may not have invented the word but certainly gave it very wide currency . |
| 6 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 7 | I hope that this book overall will provide additional assistance in both respects , particularly for those who may not have had the advantage of formal systems training . |
| 8 | Others , who may not have had such a happy relationship with their parents in the past , take on care out of a sense of duty . |
| 9 | Introducing change , however , calls for patience , sensitivity and consideration for others who may not have had the opportunity to move on in their thinking . |
| 10 | This solves the common law problem where a particular purpose is made known by a consumer to a dealer who may not have had ostensible or actual authority to receive such communication on the part of the financing institution . |
| 11 | A king who may not have died ? |
| 12 | An overseas individual subscriber not registered for VAT , who may previously have incurred VAT through the member state 's post office collection system , will now benefit from a VAT-free magazine , simply because the UK legislation specifically zero-rates those goods — at least for the time being ! |
| 13 | By this time the Harringtons had a further hold on Edward 's gratitude , having joined him promptly on his return in 1471 , and they had also secured a new and influential patron in the person of the duke of Gloucester , who may already have intervened on the Harringtons ' side in 1470 . |
| 14 | By this time the Harringtons had a further hold on Edward 's gratitude , having joined him promptly on his return in 1471 , and they had also secured a new and influential patron in the person of the duke of Gloucester , who may already have intervened on the Harringtons ' side in 1470 . |
| 15 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 16 | This can often be harsh to an employee who may well have contributed fully to enhancing the value of the company and may wish to retain his shares ; sometimes exceptions to a provision of this kind can be specified . |
| 17 | Much better news awaits those who may well have dismissed all ideas of Caterham ownership with one thought of the insurance bill . |
| 18 | At the same time he is depicted as a saint by the bishop of Tours , who may well have thought of him as a fellow victim of Merovingian politics . |
| 19 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 20 | However , it is generally assumed that rug-weaving was brought into China , probably from Turkestan or Mongolia , some time before the reign of Emperor K'ang Hsi ( 1661–1722 ) , a noted patron of the arts who may well have encouraged its assimilation into Chinese artistic life . |
| 21 | Nothing like this concentration of naval power had ever been seen in Vietnam ; and we know that it was at least inspected by Vietnamese nationalists who may also have tried to make contact with Russian sailors . |
| 22 | Eventually it could give thousands of jobless youngsters , who may otherwise have turned to crime , the chance of a well-paid job or a better future . |
| 23 | And that those who may otherwise have left the province in search of employment on the mainland are being forced to think again . |
| 24 | The development of reading competence is a life-long process for the competent ‘ general ’ reader , who may still have to learn how to read , for example , a scientific , theological , or legal text . |
| 25 | To the old long-stay patients re-established in community settings and the younger chronic patients who may never have become institutionalized should be added the relatively small but significant number of mentally abnormal offenders whose discharge from special hospitals gave rise to the 1975 Report of the committee on mentally abnormal offenders ( Cmnd. 6244 ) , together with the growing number of elderly people with mental health problems , including dementia ( Health Advisory Service , 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 27 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 28 | Yet millions of Europeans who may never have heard of Freud 's name are now affected by his work , even when this is grotesquely misinterpreted . |
| 29 | BRITAIN 'S No.2 tennis player of 1992 , Andrew Castle , is making a post-Wimbledon trip to Liverpool to coach the finer points of the game to novices who may never have seen a racket . |
| 30 | We noted , moreover , how infants sometimes form strong attachments to fathers , grandparents and older siblings who may never have participated in routine care . |