Example sentences of "may have been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 2 | On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office . |
| 3 | One reason for this slow recognition may have been doubt about the term itself and confusion concerning what is actually meant ( Dean et al . , |
| 4 | I never once saw her drunk and think it may have been water in the evenings too , half the time . |
| 5 | Both Offa 's dislike of the men of Kent and the extent of the territory now coming under his control may have been factors in the situation in the late 780s , but in 798 Coenwulf and Leo were deploying these arguments selectively and in a way which compromises their validity as single explanations of what was probably a complex situation . |
| 6 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 7 | There may have been queues in the streets when Derrida came to Oxford recently . |
| 8 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 9 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 10 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 11 | As the team 's player/manager he may have been man of the match but even our ebullient was eclipsed by . |
| 12 | This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate 's scare tactics . |
| 13 | Evans suggested that if the complete picture showed an attack on a city the houses depicted may have been part of an outer defence wall in which no ground-floor doors or windows would have been possible . |
| 14 | Excavations carried out recently on behalf of the Cheltenham Museum have revealed structures from the first to the fourth centuries , an irregular street pattern and a ditch with fourth-century coins in the lower filling which may have been part of a defence system . |
| 15 | Among the objects in Devizes Museum is an un-inscribed stone altar , a full-size silver eye from a bronze head of a cult statue and a length of iron rod sheathed in bronze , which may have been part of a sceptre . |
| 16 | The gift of a slave-girl to his daughter ( verse 24 ) may have been part of the dowry . |
| 17 | Thus , the phenomenon may have been part of variability in English for many centuries — more common perhaps in some dialects than in others , receding at some periods and progressing at others . |
| 18 | Not ideal , Ah 'm told , but that may have been part of the test . ’ |
| 19 | This requirement may have been part of our own history too . |
| 20 | But the move may have been part of the general trend by oil companies to reduce drilling commitments as cash flow was squeezed by sluggish oil prices and huge spending programmes in the North Sea . |
| 21 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 22 | From a commercial viewpoint , this was clearly intolerable , although socially these may have been lines in very remote areas where rail was an important link . |
| 23 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 24 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 27 | ‘ The MO 's they used may have been copies of earlier killings , even this latest one . |
| 28 | And yesterday as a big hunt was launched for her attackers , police revealed there may have been women in the gang . |
| 29 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 30 | One of these early pictures may have been Miner with Shovel on his Shoulder , a clumsy Expressionist drawing in black chalk and wash . |