Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] may have been [adj] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant .
2	I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’
3	Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses .
4	Police say it may have been unoccupied , and no-one else is thought to have been injured .
5	No explanation for the fall was ever given , though Sir Thomas believed he may have been involved in some stupid jape .
6	For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent .
7	Police investigating sex attacks at knife-point on a 29-year-old Filipino woman said that they ‘ believe there may have been earlier victims — but the women have been too ashamed to report the attacks ’ ( Mail on Sunday ) .
8	I 'll admit I may have been naïve … ’
9	Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level .
10	Others thought they may have been blood-cooling devices , similar to the large ears of African elephants .
11	He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug .
12	I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part .
13	I think he may have been responsible for her unhappiness .
14	They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials .
15	They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials .
16	‘ Kevin Brown believes he may have been involved in some way .

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