Example sentences of "may [adv] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Based on the small quantity of jewellery I had found , that may very well have been the case . |