Example sentences of "this may [adv] have " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We have already seen that this may simply have been a way of saying that Wulfstan had secured an undertaking that they were going to abandon practices which he found displeasing . |
| 2 | A persistent and well-argued case has to be answered and this may eventually have some influence on a minister . |
| 3 | The rear rim of the hole in Triceratops ’ skull grew back into a bony frill on which the membrane was attached ( although this may also have been a display structure ) , so that the muscles could enlarge . |
| 4 | The sensitivity of employment law issues may perhaps be gauged by the frequency with which employment cases go to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords , though this may also have something to do with the looseness of the statutory language used in the legislation . |
| 5 | This may also have positive consequences . |
| 6 | Archaeology suggests that this may also have been the case in prehistoric times . |
| 7 | Liver biopsy showed a predominantly T cell mononuclear cell infiltrate and although the possibility of lymphoma was raised it was considered that this may also have been caused by an inflammatory process . |
| 8 | Indeed , with farming especially brisk and with recruitment affecting the labour market , the French war years were associated with " buoyant and rising " female wages This may also have been the case in Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Rutland . |
| 9 | This may also have caused the effects of support to be obscured . |
| 10 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 11 | This may already have happened in those species that will not tolerate a strange egg in the nest . |
| 12 | This may well have been a contributory factor in the prevalence of death in child-birth . |
| 13 | This may well have been the case in September 1987 but I thought most reviewers were scared to dive in and uncover the record 's moments of uncoordinated parody for fear of being trampled to death by hordes of rampant Smiths devotees . |
| 14 | As this may well have occurred millenniums before that dawning power could produce an act of a nature that would leave the kind of evidence that archaeologists seek , then it must be that the true dawn is virtually undatable . |
| 15 | In the ancient world slaves had been most commonly used as domestic servants and artisans , and this may well have continued to be true in the Middle Ages . |
| 16 | This may well have been the aircraft seen to crash , and although Kennett and Waghorn were credited posthumously with a Ju88 probably destroyed , this could well have been their victim , no Ju88s being reported missing on this date . |
| 17 | This may well have been the aircraft attacked by Westmacott . |
| 18 | 4/St.G 1 reported that one of its Ju87s crash-landed at Comiso suffering 70% damage , and this may well have been the victim of their attack . |
| 19 | This may well have provided relief and reassurance to those many antislavery people who were at the respectable fringes rather than the centre of religious , social and political power as well as for different and obvious reasons those who were closer to the centre . |
| 20 | This may well have saved the new Bulgaria . |
| 21 | Halphen , who edited the text , believed that here the author was drawing on a vernacular epic ; this may well have been so , for in the late eleventh-century manuscript of the Song of Roland , Geoffrey featured as Charlemagne 's standard-bearer . |
| 22 | The situation in the Gouriet case was a politically sensitive one and this may well have justified the court 's refusal in that case to review the Attorney-General 's decision , but it is not clear that such refusal would be justified in every case . |
| 23 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 24 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 25 | From this may well have followed the whole highly undesirable evolution of British politics in the thirties . |
| 26 | It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove . |
| 27 | Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable . |
| 28 | This may well have had a bearing on Washington 's decision later in the year to send out the hostage intelligence team , headed by Major Charles McKee of the DIA , who died in the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 29 | This may well have contributed to the feeling that the UK was overtaxed , despite the fact that this is contradicted by the evidence ( see Table 16.5 below ) . |
| 30 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |