Example sentences of "the [adj] may have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , and I hesitate to broach the matter , the English may have arranged Alexander III 's death but to what advantage ? |
| 2 | Cutting ticket prices for the French may have helped the park nearly to hit its attendance targets , but it has also eaten into revenues . |
| 3 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 4 | The French may have their fancy patisseries , but give me an English pudding any day . |
| 5 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 6 | The accused may have the requisite intent ; if not s.6 can supply it . |
| 7 | ‘ This may have been a mixture of excitement , curiosity and immaturity — and the payment of money by the accused may have had an influence , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The T.R. may have been unique in having tickets priced in farthings . |
| 9 | The additions to his power in the course of the 1470s may have constituted a reassessment of his position , with the king 's perception of his role developing as the duke matured . |
| 10 | The additions to his power in the course of the 1470s may have constituted a reassessment of his position , with the king 's perception of his role developing as the duke matured . |
| 11 | Your experience of previous similar texts in the 1970s may have familiarised you with the form X rule OK which may permit you to divide this unpunctuated sequence into two parts : |
| 12 | Poems are more plausibly referred to as works of art than novels ; the latter may have obviously aesthetic qualities , but have many other things in them as well . |
| 13 | The latter may have its own special characteristics for the job you have in mind . |
| 14 | The interpretation put on these results was that the latter may have an optimum level which facilitates creativeness ; though beyond that point — as seen in the seriously psychotic — it may hamper creativity . |
| 15 | 12 ft ) , were also found ; the latter may have decorated the facade of the building . |
| 16 | Neither approach seems entirely satisfactory , although the latter may have the advantage of facilitating a simple architecture , with a uni-directional flow of information from the bottom upwards . |
| 17 | The latter may have shared in that general relaxation of social attitudes to nonstandard varieties that had also occurred , for example , in public institutions such as the BBC . |
| 18 | Two periods , 1750 – 70 and the 1780s , saw especially sharp declines , although the generally high level of economic activity in the latter may have compensated to a degree with fuller employment . |
| 19 | The over-protected , the abused , the under-encouraged , and the forced may have difficulty in giving full attention , even in relaxing into the reading act . |
| 20 | The Chinese may have been cavalierly treated since then . |
| 21 | While discussing the Chinese search for the elixir of life , for example , we are taken in detail through the notion that the Chinese may have obtained the ideas from the Vedic culture . |
| 22 | A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 25 | Thus , while the five may have remained united , and the EEC survived intact , the ‘ victory ’ went largely to France . |
| 26 | It is not that Jesus viewed women with ambivalence , but his emphasis on the superior value of the spiritual may have placed women more than men in an ambivalent relationship to the divine . |
| 27 | When the principle of free speech collides with the principle of fair trial , the former may have to give way . |
| 28 | The Irish may have scored socially but they came a poor second on the field because , says DON CAMERON , they were not prepared for the speed and the impact of the N.Z. game . |
| 29 | He probably came from Rothbury in Northumberland and the Hugh of Rothbury who was a clerk of the Common Bench justice , William of Brompton , in the 1280s may have been his brother . |
| 30 | For example , different instances of sounds that human listeners perceive as the same may have very different waveforms . |