Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [be] present [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preliminary observations on Harris ( Birks , unpublished ) suggest that local glaciers may have been present during the stadial in some of the valleys around Clisham , Ullaval , Tirga Mor , and Uisgnaval More . |
| 2 | HIV may have been present for centuries in a relatively harmless form and only recently evolved into a more damaging one . |
| 3 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 4 | Such looms may have been present in every household . |
| 5 | Such phenomena may have been present in three of our patints , in whom a slight bile acid malabsorption was found with the SeHCAT test , but in whom there was no increase in bile acid synthesis by the liver . |