Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may just have been coincidence , but since the A1GSM went in , I have had no trouble at all with fish ailments . |
| 2 | Both Edmunds may also have been members of the Spectaclemakers ' Company . |
| 3 | They are interpreted as filling volcano-tectonic faults but may also have been feeders to Kuroko-style massive sulphide deposits , though these are likely to have been removed by erosion . |
| 4 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 5 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 6 | They may even have been lovers , though they parted company towards the end . ’ |
| 7 | It can also be argued that there are many references in the Old Testament to conditions that may well have been syphilis . |
| 8 | The general assumption of Gratian and his collaborators ( ironically they may well have been monks working with him in the Camaldolese monastery in Bologna and not the new secular law clerks of the future ) was that the contradictions in the early canon law were only superficial or apparent . |
| 9 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 10 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 11 | Of course , there may well have been conjecture when so many people invaded Maternity when the infant was delivered , but that was something you permitted . ’ |
| 12 | Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) and Intolerance ( 1916 ) may well have been masterpieces but they were also very obviously controversial and guaranteed to shock sections of the great audience . |
| 13 | On the other hand , one source of satisfaction to the USSR , as one of the world 's major gold producers , may well have been news released in September 1980 that New York gold prices had soared on reports that war had broken out . |
| 14 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 15 | But there may well have been situations in which the boot was on the other foot ; and in the centuries before the tenth , the centuries in which slavery was steadily declining , there is no reason to suppose that land was scarce , or that the landlords normally had the whip-hand . |
| 16 | I heard my name being called , it may well have been Louis erm come forward and I heard it , I understood it to be P C voice . |
| 17 | So far as the Gospels themselves are concerned , Jesus may indeed have been King of the Jews — and/or been so regarded . |
| 18 | Many explanations are possible , but there may again have been doubts about the accuracy of the text , sufficient to halt work temporarily . |
| 19 | It may actually have been Gandhi who was responsible for his optimism about this . |
| 20 | To suggest that Jesus may actually have been King of the Jews , is not , therefore , to stand at variance with the evidence . |