Example sentences of "may have [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As the team 's player/manager he may have been man of the match but even our ebullient was eclipsed by . |
| 32 | This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate 's scare tactics . |
| 33 | Evans suggested that if the complete picture showed an attack on a city the houses depicted may have been part of an outer defence wall in which no ground-floor doors or windows would have been possible . |
| 34 | Excavations carried out recently on behalf of the Cheltenham Museum have revealed structures from the first to the fourth centuries , an irregular street pattern and a ditch with fourth-century coins in the lower filling which may have been part of a defence system . |
| 35 | Among the objects in Devizes Museum is an un-inscribed stone altar , a full-size silver eye from a bronze head of a cult statue and a length of iron rod sheathed in bronze , which may have been part of a sceptre . |
| 36 | The gift of a slave-girl to his daughter ( verse 24 ) may have been part of the dowry . |
| 37 | Thus , the phenomenon may have been part of variability in English for many centuries — more common perhaps in some dialects than in others , receding at some periods and progressing at others . |
| 38 | Not ideal , Ah 'm told , but that may have been part of the test . ’ |
| 39 | This requirement may have been part of our own history too . |
| 40 | But the move may have been part of the general trend by oil companies to reduce drilling commitments as cash flow was squeezed by sluggish oil prices and huge spending programmes in the North Sea . |
| 41 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 42 | From a commercial viewpoint , this was clearly intolerable , although socially these may have been lines in very remote areas where rail was an important link . |
| 43 | There may have been press briefings by regulatory bodies during and after the Blue Arrow inquiry which he said called into question their impartiality . |
| 44 | Joan Waters , too , was left in peace apart from the following two minor incidents which may have been attempts to impress upon her that she had not moved beyond the reach of the long arm of the undercover services . |
| 45 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 46 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 47 | From 1981 to 1986 the total population of Kosovo rose by about 220,000 , and of this increase about 200,000 may have been Albanians . |
| 48 | Müncheberg 's second victim crashed near a crossroads at Wardia with the pilot apparently dead ; this may have been Mortimer 's aircraft . |
| 49 | I 've come to suspect that the spring may have been sewage , having noticed that butterflies , however , beautiful , possess unsavoury habits . |
| 50 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 51 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 52 | Police said there may have been plans to plant the bombs elsewhere in Calcutta to try to reignite Hindu-Moslem riots which hit India in December and January , claiming nearly 2,000 lives . |
| 53 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 54 | But there may have been incidents where we have been involved . |
| 55 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 56 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 57 | The sixty-seven ruins on the Plain of Barsoom commonly called ‘ temples ’ may have been just that ; or equally well may have been army barracks , isolated quarters for the mentally disturbed or victims of plague , or holiday camps for Martian urbanites . |
| 58 | ‘ The MO 's they used may have been copies of earlier killings , even this latest one . |
| 59 | And yesterday as a big hunt was launched for her attackers , police revealed there may have been women in the gang . |
| 60 | Women it may have been Women 's Institute Guild or something or I du n no . |