Example sentences of "may [verb] been [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 2 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 3 | The various cups and horns in graves may have been for the consumption of alcoholic liquid , including beor , ealu , medu and win ( Fell 1975 ) . |
| 4 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 5 | Female involvement may have been at the fringes , though what took place in this ‘ marginal , area may turn out to have been more important than long-forgotten events on the field of play . |
| 6 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 7 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 8 | It may have been at the chapel that Father began to court Mother . |
| 9 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 10 | Science and education may have been on the minds of the panel , but the youngsters preferred to range over topics such as nuclear disarmament and the ethics of energy . |
| 11 | Although the number of Poles may have been on the increase there was very little sign in Prussia that they were organising to reinstate an independent Poland . |
| 12 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 13 | He may have been on the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier , 1529–30 . |
| 14 | They may have been on the street , or coming out of bed-and-breakfast lodgings . |
| 15 | These conclusions are probably most valid for the female Type 2 diabetic subject , in whom it is interesting to speculate that serum lipid levels may have been towards the upper end of the normal distribution even in adolescence . |
| 16 | It is not at all unlikely that some pressure was put on women in these two key firms , but it may have been of a persuasive rather than an intimidating kind . |
| 17 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 18 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 19 | If external then the situation caused it and it may have been outside the control of the individual . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | ‘ I believe you may have been under the influence . ’ |
| 22 | Many felt that what had happened may have been within the laws of the game but was certainly outside the spirit , and could have serious consequences for the rest of the tour . |
| 23 | The Judge said the gang may have been in a state of panic , but the police were unarmed and it was miracle they were n't seriously injured . |
| 24 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 25 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 26 | Writing is made to seem a small betrayal , as it may have been in the life of Prentice 's Uncle Rory , who makes a prize-winning living as the author of travel books about ‘ unlikely destinations ’ and who is absent from the grandmother 's funeral where the story begins ( with a predictable bang ) . |
| 27 | However successful these policies may have been in the fifties we have , I believe , convincing evidence that they have failed since the world-wide inflation which started with the mismanagement of the finances raised to pay for the Vietnam War . |
| 28 | Whatever may have been in the minds of right-wing conspirators and left-wing militants during the ‘ ominous spring ’ of 1936 , it was certainly not a prolonged civil war . |
| 29 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |
| 30 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |