Example sentences of "may [adv] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it may all not have been necessary . |
| 2 | In Picasso 's subsequent move towards a more abstract kind of painting , the work of Braque may once again have been a stimulus , and Picasso 's remark to Braque , quoted by Michel Georges-Michel , ‘ I have tried your methods and I feel one can do excellent things with them ’ was perhaps made in connection with the new kind of painting Braque had invented in his still lifes of the first half of 1910 . |
| 3 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |
| 4 | This odd looking engine named Ant ended its days at Hutch Bank Quarry but may also well have been the Ant that worked on the Brooks Quarries lines about Cloughfield . |
| 5 | That , too , may have been reactive to Modernism and Bloomsbury , which were certainly coteries , though in a land traditionally sceptical of manifestoes and cynical about self-advertisement it may as easily have been the reassertion of an ancient mistrust . |
| 6 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 7 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |
| 8 | As I think you will agree when you have looked at all the evidence it may well not have been quite so simple in this case to determine what was the best for the girl , as we , looking back on events from this point in time , may think . |
| 9 | The presence of the provision , however , suggests that kadis had in practice been making their way back into the medrese stream , though it may well never have been intended that they should do so . |
| 10 | Their green eyes fell on the strange eight-legged carving — which may indeed have been a spider , or an octopus , or may yet again have been something altogether more strange and they immediately decided that they were n't so hungry , at that . |
| 11 | William Cosyn , servant to William Browne ( who was worth no more than 20s. ) , may very well have been a journeyman , for he is followed in the list by Stephen Martyn , ‘ apprentice to the same William ’ . |
| 12 | So , in their capacity as workers in those factories they were not Co-operators at all , though they may very well have been members of consumers , co-operative societies owning an interest in those factories . |
| 13 | Based on the small quantity of jewellery I had found , that may very well have been the case . |