Example sentences of "they may have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIDS is an everyday topic in the papers and on television ; there is every chance that your children have become interested , even at a young age , but they may have misunderstood things and have some strange ideas . |
| 2 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 3 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 4 | In 1716 money troubles made the family move to lodgings in Salisbury , where they may have become friends of Henry Fielding [ q.v. ] and his family . |
| 5 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 6 | They may have noted gaps in the company 's roster of artists which need to be filled . |
| 7 | They may have survived County Louth but Malcolm 's driving is an entirely different matter . |
| 8 | They may have obtained support , in manpower , money and material , from all three ; but they themselves were essentially political in orientation . |
| 9 | WHETHER or not the atomic bomb tests at Monte Bello affected the servicemen concerned there by radiation so that they may have developed forms of cancer is not proved and possibly is not susceptible of proof . |
| 10 | Furthermore , they may have to accept work further away from home than they are accustomed to travelling , which may in itself present child care problems . |
| 11 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
| 12 | Erm er I think they 're probably and and they 're putting more effort into getting the unemployed off being unemployed off being unemployed into course are n't they so probably the they may have improved things but anyway the basic erm idea of it was that you borrow money er you borrow erm money to finance a course which is going to get you a job . |
| 13 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |
| 14 | Planning officers had recommended refusal although chief officer Tony Noble warned that they may have to pay costs if the applicant succeeded at a subsequent appeal . |
| 15 | They may have worked years for long hours in restaurants . |
| 16 | I deny that there were any evictions ; they may have got letters of removal , but I deny that these were any evictions in the sense of evictions . " |