Example sentences of "may [adv] have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 2 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 3 | I very much doubt whether Wolfgang will find there all those things which he has imagined and the great advantages which several people may perhaps have described to him . |
| 4 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 5 | Kubrick presumably thinks that scientists , engineers and astronauts are dull dogs , a perception ( or rather , opinion , since it 's often untrue ) that he may not have imparted to Clarke . |
| 6 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 7 | Even if the unwelcome possibility was beginning to dawn on them , they may not have wanted to be the first to break the consensus . |
| 8 | Even if the unwelcome possibility was beginning to dawn on them , they may not have wanted to be the first to break the consensus . |
| 9 | Indeed , does not Locke himself raise this objection when he asks why ‘ one intellectual substance may not have represented to it , as done by itself , what it never did , and was perhaps done by some other agent ’ ? |
| 10 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 11 | Adoption should not be underestimated as a potential problem , and Howe ( 1990 ) estimated that there are approximately 600,000 relinquishing mothers in the UK — many of whom may not have come to terms with their loss . |
| 12 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 13 | Earthquake engineers may not have needed to be reminded that building design can make all the difference between life and death , but the Californian quake has increased public interest in earthquake-resistant designs . |
| 14 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 15 | It may not have occurred to them that they could do the same when viewing video by themselves . |
| 16 | He may not have returned to Paris in 1944 with all his answers to France 's problems fully formed , but he had at least decided what the problems were . |
| 17 | ‘ We are working very heavily with them to convert them and give them the business skills they may not have acquired to date , ’ says Mr Smaje . |
| 18 | Nail clippers , combs , toothpaste and toothbrushes , razors and washbags are neatly laid out on tables in the cells to await the arrival of inmates , many of whom will not be carrying such items because they may not have expected to be remanded in custody . |
| 19 | Largeness , whether as an un-eliminated pituitary defect or as a self-coded dna attempt at prolonging the dinosaurian bloodline , may not have worked to their advantage in the end . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You may already have written to Mr Popham to ask him to act in this way . |
| 22 | may already have spoken to you about her and my plan to have a training/recreation weekend in St Andrews ( Saturday ) and Edinburgh ( Friday evening and Sunday ) in the autumn , 19–21 November , |
| 23 | In order to find out what the substantive law is , we must still go back to the time when Law and Equity were administered in different courts ; we may still have to picture to ourselves distinct proceedings taken about the same matter in those courts , and work out the result of those separate proceedings . |
| 24 | Although Offa may once have aspired to be ‘ king of the English ’ , Cenwulf did not , and it is arguable , for all his control of southern England apart from Wessex , that Mercian power declined in his reign . |
| 25 | This is the " dear green place " that its name may once have meant to the Celts . |
| 26 | This belief in a woman 's heightened sexuality during her period may also have contributed to her being considered dangerous and hence polluting to all males . |
| 27 | The cultural stereotype of cattle stealing as an exciting , adventurous activity may also have contributed to its acceptance . |
| 28 | A number of factors besides increased gearing may also have contributed to higher corporate default rates . |
| 29 | Farm shops may also have contributed to this decline in the local store . |
| 30 | The introduction of compulsory seat belt wearing for rear seat passengers may also have contributed to this reduction . |