Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been a stopping-place for drovers — but he could still do Dr Johnson the honour of making lemonade from fresh lemons . |
| 2 | It may have been a twig snapping , except that the sound appeared to be inside Rincewind 's head . |
| 3 | Well it may have been a grunt of irritation that his lovely hire-car was steaming up with two sweaty , stinking hill-walkers who had forced their way in uninvited , but I prefer to think disbelief . |
| 4 | He was beginning to feel that it may have been a mistake , it may have been wiser to have remained elsewhere . |
| 5 | It may have been a trick of the light . |
| 6 | It may have been a sign of things to come that though the strike led to a long lasting respect between Havelock Wilson and Tom Mann , no such relationship developed with Ben Tillett , who in his recollections of the strike refrains from making mention of Wilson at all . |
| 7 | Charlton thought it may have been a kind of store-yard where goods for the abbey were landed and deposited . |
| 8 | It may have been a domus inclusa but is now a coal hole . |
| 9 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 10 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 11 | It might have been a question of time , it may have been a question of tooling , it may have been a question of instruments , it may have been a question of materials , raw materials , or a compilation of all of these things . |
| 12 | It may have been a factor in leading a plaintiff to sue in the county court rather than the High Court when his or her claim lay within its jurisdiction . |
| 13 | It may have been a consciousness of the inevitability of stalemate or gradual decline on the wages front at home which led Wilson to divert much of his attention the international scene . |
| 14 | The faience plaques Evans discovered in the East Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth probably originally fitted together , jigsaw-fashion , to make a picture of a complete town ; it may have been a town under attack from invaders , like the town shown on the silver Siege Rhyton found at Mycenae . |
| 15 | This represented a quite remarkable compromise which required the co-operation of Aethelred , king of the Mercians , who restored Wilfrid 's Mercian possessions , and Aelfflaed , abbess of Whitby , whose influence with King Aldfrith is likely to have been considerable ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) , but it may have been a manifestation of the insecurity of Aldfrith in the years immediately following his accession . |
| 16 | As for [ h ] -dropping — I have suggested elsewhere ( J. Milroy , 1983 ) that in the Middle Ages it may have been a marker of more cultured speech . |
| 17 | What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar . |
| 18 | At first this was interpreted as a separate medusa-like form , but it appears in a number of specimens in just such a position and some now think that it may have been a holdfast . |
| 19 | Alexander said that it may have been a form of epilepsy , exacerbated by the atmospheric-electric disturbances of the mistral and the heat . |
| 20 | He may have been a character in Kilburn 's past , but a folklorist , N A Hudleston , suggested he was Grim , otherwise the Norse god Odin . |
| 21 | He may have been a Londoner , brought up in the Newcastle coal trade . |
| 22 | ‘ He may have been a fool , but I do n't think that was an accident . ’ |
| 23 | He may have been a time-server as his attitude about the Pole Nicolaus Copernicus suggests . |
| 24 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 25 | He may have been a manager or even an owner before becoming a business valuer . |
| 26 | He may have been a fellow of Merton College , Oxford , c .1270 , and was certainly a member of the Dominican convent in Oxford , perhaps by c .1282 . |