Example sentences of "may only have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 2 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 3 | This in turn suggests that class politics of the old sort may only have been the politics of modernism in its classic , now discredited phase . |
| 4 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 5 | It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by . |