Example sentences of "may have be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She may 've been murdered , ’ said Constance .
2 It may 've been found already . ’
3 Staff are angry at the thought the duck 's may 've been mistreated
4 Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack .
5 The only lasting effect it may have is on the careers of some of the people involved .
6 Out of his professional need , he will have settled on a good working strain over the years and any surplus he may have is virtually guaranteed to be first-class .
7 To ensure that any capital she may have is being invested wisely .
8 Any legitimacy that nuclear weapons may have is in respect not of their potential use , but as regards their possession as a means of ‘ deterrence ’ .
9 What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains .
10 Concentration on the imposition of duties does not , however , distort our understanding of authority since all the other functions authorities may have are ultimately explained by reference to the imposition of duties .
11 Any fears you may have are , believe me , like Maidstone United , completely groundless .
12 Any additional comments you may have are welcome , but please note that this Directive is mandatory within the UK .
13 Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published .
14 From a letter to Francesco Gonzaga , written in 1622 and published by A. Luzio , in which among others a self-portrait of Tintoretto is offered to him , Pittalunga argues that the Paris picture may have been the one mentioned and which formed part of Rubens 's estate .
15 The shape of a picture may have been altered , and the museum , though not a stray visitor , will know the fact .
16 Newspaper profiles are quite likely to be based on interviews , which have an immediate attraction , though a reader will naturally be wary about how accurately the interview may have been recorded .
17 Even taped interviews can only be read with caution , since they may have been edited , and the reader will not be told how .
18 And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life .
19 Nail on the Banister by R. Stornaway , alias R. Scott , is an eloquent Scots joke of the Thirties , and it allows one to say that Glasser 's banister was a bed of nails , but that his slides may have been less painful than Fraser 's .
20 Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said .
21 Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries .
22 Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny .
23 The Facts is preoccupied with one shiksa in particular : the deadly Josie , whom Roth marries , who forces his hand in the matter by faking an abortion , who comes near to destroying him , and who may have been , according to the Zuckerman letter at the end of the book , an alcoholic .
24 Levi was interested in action , purpose , work , and capable of them : and the capacity may have been formed in contention with a desire to withdraw and perhaps to give up .
25 It all happened so quickly — sometimes I think it may have been too quickly .
26 But may have been through that earlier .
27 Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’
28 Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’
29 ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on .
30 ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing .
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