Example sentences of "may have be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Wordsworth may have been influenced in his ideas of development by William Green . |
| 2 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 3 | We are concerned that at every level of government — in Europe , in Whitehall and in local authorities — some regulations may have been adopted in answer to legitimate concerns , but without proper regard to their overall impact on businesses and individuals . |
| 4 | Parks and Gischel say that the crane may have been damaged in the original accident . |
| 5 | This may have been done in the Middle Ages , but many warrens seem to date from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 6 | Whatever showmanship may have been developed in the CHAB productions was now to be used originating talks programmes and other current affairs features , including discussion groups , from the Vancouver studios of CBC to the forty-odd stations of the national network . |
| 7 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 8 | The text of Stella celi is an invocation for deliverance from plague , and may have been written in the summer of 1479 , when an outbreak assailed the staff of St George 's ; beyond this , no chronology for his work can be suggested . |
| 9 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
| 10 | As for the fuller versions of the migration , as preserved in Fredegar 's Chronicle and in the Liber Historiae Francorum , they may have been written in response to the origin legends of the Goths , which had been developed by Cassiodorus and preserved by Jordanes . |
| 11 | Levi was interested in action , purpose , work , and capable of them : and the capacity may have been formed in contention with a desire to withdraw and perhaps to give up . |
| 12 | They may have been formed in the interests of diversification ( unnecessary though this might be from the viewpoint of the theory of finance ) or for political reasons , for example . |
| 13 | As silica is only mobilised in strongly alkaline environments and as gypsum and other soluble salts occur in the underlying zone of weathering , it is suggested that they may have been formed in an arid environment . |
| 14 | Very rarely HIV may have been transmitted in breastmilk and women in the UK who are HIV antibody positive are advised not to breastfeed . |
| 15 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 16 | Thus in some areas much of what we see in later landscapes may have been determined in outline before 4000 BC . |
| 17 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 18 | The information gained from such provings is enlarged by adding in any known toxic effects of the remedy in question which may have been noted in cases of poisoning ( either accidental or otherwise ) and is completed by noting any symptoms and signs which were not observed in the provings but which cleared up unexpectedly in patients given that remedy on the provings indications . |
| 19 | The important point for the purposes of the argument being developed here is that although Freud may have been mistaken in his biology , the notion of the death instincts retains a usefulness which is missed by critics who reject the notion on the basis of ethological and biological evidence . |
| 20 | Aethelheard , abbot of Louth in Lindsey , who became archbishop of Canterbury in 792 , may have been seen in Kent as a ‘ symbol of Mercian rule ’ , but he appears to have obtained from Offa a confirmation of the immunity of Kentish churches ( CS 848 : S 134 ) 52 and he presided without Hygeberht over a synod at London attended by most of the bishops of southern England ( CS 265 : S 132 ) . |
| 21 | Sir , I would like to correct an impression that may have been given in the Science Fiction , Horror and Fantasy round-up ( 2nd April ) regarding sales of James Herbert 's Portent in hardback . |
| 22 | Fears that coursework vital to pupils ' examination grades may have been destroyed in Sunday 's blaze proved groundless . |
| 23 | All these species are common migrants which appear in Shetland every year , and I could n't help wondering if any of those we were hearing and seeing may have been feeding in the bushes in my garden a short time before … |
| 24 | Spectacles or low vision aids may have been prescribed in some cases , and teachers should be informed about this . |
| 25 | Agitation may have been couched in a vocabulary which spoke of national morality , but it was clear who were being singled out as the recipients of purity action . |
| 26 | I can not imagine why yours have started so quickly , unless they are older than they look — they may have been kept in conditions where they have not grown on , due to overcrowding , or because they have been left with their parents for too long . |
| 27 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 28 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 29 | Yet the very large concentrations at Faversham ( Harden 1956b , pp. 146–7 ) and the fact that some supposed European types are more common in England than on the Continent , for instance the Kempston type cone beakers ( Evison 1972 ) and bag beakers ( Harden 1978 , p. 2 ) , encourage a view that some at least may have been made in England . |
| 30 | A contemporary Shirvan rug , for example ( pl. 24 ) , may have been made in the Shirvan area — now part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan — but it could just as easily have come from any of the Soviet weaving centres producing Caucasian-style rugs . |