Example sentences of "may have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Others may have maintained a long-term extra-marital affair . |
2 | Loss of active swimming habits may have rendered the complex suture lines superfluous . |
3 | This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once . |
4 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
5 | ARDS may have lost the Irish Soccer Cup final to Bangor this season , but their swim minnows made sure Bangor were n't going to do a double at the Grove Pool last weekend . |
6 | On the other hand , small temples like the one at Gournia and those towns , like palaikastro , which apparently managed without temples , may have organized the agricultural production of their own estates near by on a scale that was commensurate with their size and rate of population growth . |
7 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
8 | The Iceni may have harried the northern boundary of the Trinovantes , with freedom to raid and loot , and the Regini provided the Roman fleet with an important haven in Bosham , from which the army launched its attack along the coast to the west . |
9 | For remarkably little effort , you may have saved an endangered building . |
10 | I may have asked a few more questions ; I ca n't remember now . |
11 | TEATIME viewers to ITV 's results service last Saturday may have noticed a promising debut at the Sunderland-West Ham Cup tie . |
12 | You may have noticed the happy ending came rather pat . |
13 | The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life . |
14 | Because we observe changes in Hox expression in neural crest and motor nerves as well as in the early neural epithelium , multiple groups of cells that will enter and populate the first branchial arch may have adopted a second branchial arch identity . |
15 | Richard Assheton may have employed the best church architects of his day because he was himself an amateur architect ( he designed a church at Flecknoe , near Daventry , south of Rugby ) and hence may have appreciated the difficulties of architectural design and the ability of talented practitioners to resolve them happily . |
16 | Alternatively , he may have represented a powerful aristocratic family descended from neither the Deiran nor the Bernician royal family and which was aspiring to royal power for the first time , though the likelihood is that some such affinity was at least claimed . |
17 | Jack 's ‘ going with someone ’ , as Karen Black put it , was still Mimi , a relationship which had survived all predictions ; and , though it may have stopped a few magic moments between him and Black , it did not prevent an entanglement with another of his co-stars , Susan Anspach . |
18 | The stimuli may have remained the same but almost all other aspects of the training situation were radically altered in the shift from the simultaneous to the successive procedure . |
19 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
20 | In the case of South Mountains , synkinematic intrusions and associated high magmatic fluid pressures may have raised the brittle to ductile transition zone to between 5 and 10km depth . |
21 | Staff of private establishments in 1990 may have overestimated the actual disability of their residents , or the methods of care in these homes may lead to increased dependency . |
22 | The present geological and palaeoecological evidence suggests that there is a possibility that some taxa with northern distributions today may have survived the entire last glaciation in parts of the Outer Hebrides ( cf. |
23 | Reading Crown Court heard eccentric loner Mr Clark , of Langley , Berks , may have inflicted the fatal injuries himself . |
24 | Behind the scenes they may have affected the prime minister directly . |
25 | But all these factors may have affected the actual form of upper segments of the profile . |
26 | Stock exchanges and complex financial instruments may have decoupled the legal notion of ownership from this commitment , but the underlying principle endures . |
27 | In newly-published research , two American scientists claim the eruption of Toba in Sumatra 73,500 years ago — the largest in the last million years and five times bigger than Tambora — may have caused a global cooling of 3-5C . |
28 | Similarly , the increasing use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may have caused an increasing number of peptic ulcer cases in the older age groups . |
29 | RNA instability may have caused the low level expression of protein , so we generated a deletion mutant that eliminated 0.5 kb of 3' untranslated sequences of the cDNA ( Figure 3b , plasmid IV ) . |
30 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |