Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Past experience in nursing can also reflect a very hierarchical , even military approach , and some ‘ procedures ’ may have suffered at the hands of obsessional and aggressive teaching .
2 Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do .
3 An added precautionary measure is to form Newco specially for the management buy-out rather than acquire a shelf company , because a shelf company 's accounting period may have commenced at a time when its Memorandum of Association does not reflect the relevant purpose test , for example , where a general trading company is purchased and turned into a holding company .
4 He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack .
5 But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time .
6 If a customer was unaware of the need to provide variation margin from time to time and had insufficient available funds to meet margin calls , then he may be forced to liquidate his position at a loss even though , had the contract been allowed to run to maturity , it may have closed at a profit .
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