Example sentences of "may have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff are angry at the thought the duck 's may 've been mistreated |
| 2 | ‘ She may 've been murdered , ’ said Constance . |
| 3 | It may 've been found already . ’ |
| 4 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 5 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 6 | Modelling leads to the startling conclusion that melts may have been stored for as long as 300,000–500,000 years before eruption . |
| 7 | The pronunciation may have been stored before , but as part of a longer word ( e.g. tea as part of teacher ) . |
| 8 | The pronunciation may have been stored before but the written and/or syntactic information may differ ( e.g tea and tee ) , in which case the new information is appended to the existing written and syntactic forms . |
| 9 | Young may have been exposed to Palmer 's ideas while a student of G. C. Lichtenberg in Göttingen . |
| 10 | In the case of black speakers , because LE is almost certainly their dominant language , though they may have been exposed to Creole first ; at any rate , the possibility that these occasional " Creolisms " are due to a carry-over from the " mother tongue " remains doubtful and unproven . |
| 11 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |
| 12 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 13 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 14 | This third section of the annual submission should be concerned with notification of any changes in the development plan which may have been decided as a result of progress and experience in the early years . |
| 15 | Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty ( eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC ) , although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously . |
| 16 | Later Western mystics remained isolated from the mainstream in their cloisters and , though they may have been regarded as saints , they and their particular religious ideals remained a minority form of Western Christianity . |
| 17 | Silurian strata may have been deposited , and removed during the Devonian . |
| 18 | By analogy with other Zechstein carbonate units , it is possible that an oolitic-barrier or reef complex also may have been deposited at the edge of the platform but no evidence of this has been reported so far . |
| 19 | Calculations using this minimum sedimentation rate , and taking an average lamina thickness of 100 micrometres , suggests at least annual deposition of mats , although more than one mat layer may have been deposited from a single mat forming event ( concentrations of up to 4.4m -3 have been reported for Rhizosolenia mats ) . |
| 20 | However , do it yourself equipment like homemade trickle filters and protein skimmers may have been constructed from plastic that is less than ideal . |
| 21 | Some conference representatives may have been influenced by a fiercely polemical front page editorial in yesterday 's Daily Mail . |
| 22 | And Williamson suggests that this line of approach may have been influenced by an important letter sent to Baldwin , by W. Bridgeman , which stated : |
| 23 | Now the Beaconsfield trio finally release a follow-up on the Creation label — ‘ Philly ’ , which has a few string sounds that may have been influenced by ( or stolen from ) old Philadelphia International disco classics , but which otherwise is a solid gold indie dance tune . |
| 24 | Mr Des Wilson , the Liberal Democrat campaign manager , played down the racial element in the vote that defeated Mr Taylor , saying : ‘ We won that seat on the merits of our campaign , not because a few votes for the Tory may have been influenced by the colour of their candidate 's skin . ’ |
| 25 | He may have been influenced by his early days as a teenager in Cairo with his uncle or during his time in Hamburg . |
| 26 | The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument . |
| 27 | This representation of Mithra appears to have been derived from Egyptian art , and it has been suggested that it may have been influenced by the bandages of mummified corpses . |
| 28 | William Wordsworth may have been influenced in his ideas of development by William Green . |
| 29 | We must constantly compare the copy with the reality shown to us by experienced paddlers and not simply look hard at a wide selection of paddlers and not simply look at our own friends and colleagues who may have been influenced by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 30 | As well as this , Vincent may have been influenced by Zola 's theory that one could make oneself an artist by an act of will , providing one had the temperament — ‘ Art is nature seen through a temperament ’ — and although natural talent was helpful , it was by no means essential . |