Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [be] [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the first-night audience studied their printed librettos , they may have been intrigued by the curious frontispiece . |
| 2 | Their regimes may have been impoverished by the emphasis on security and restrictions on movement within the prison , but at least the physical settings avoided the squalor and overcrowding which worsened in the local prisons . |
| 3 | Some of your readers may have been confused by a report of our work in Aberdeen University on oilseed rape allergies , and subsequent letters from a farmer and an anti-allergy campaigner . |
| 4 | Cleveland Coroner Michael Sheffield said Mr Owens may have been startled by a car swerving to avoid him and had stepped into the path of the van . |
| 5 | Lt Ferris may have been caught-out by the P-51 's undesirable characteristic that in a tight turn , will a full fuselage tank , the aircraft tended to tighten into the turn and stall out before the pilot could regain control . |
| 6 | They may have been surprised by the contents of her second volume . |
| 7 | If you have ever looked at the ingredients list on your bag of Koi pellets , you may have been puzzled by the high ash content . |
| 8 | All seem , at least implicitly , to view material and ideological factors as interacting with each other in a manner which could be described ( if we may risk being unfashionable by using a Marxist term ) as ‘ dialectical ’ . |