Example sentences of "may have been [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 2 | Scotland may have been a remote country . |
| 3 | Diabetics tend to have higher serum cholesterol levels than non-diabetes ( Santen et al , 1972 ) , and the old diabetic diet only recently abandoned may have been a contributing factor . |
| 4 | Experts believe the anaesthetic propofol ‘ may have been a contributing factor ’ in the deaths . |
| 5 | A hospital spokeswoman said : ‘ The bacteria may have been a contributing factor in these deaths . |
| 6 | Johnny Marr 's guitar work may have been a stable basis of listenability but it was Morrissey 's release from years of repressed loser attitudes which made The Smiths so special . |
| 7 | This may have been a reasonable starting assumption for the initial round of forecasts made in 1985 , but it is not adequate now . |
| 8 | There was a port called Minoa on the south-west coast of Sicily which may have been a Crete-controlled trading station . |
| 9 | This may have been a late flowering of the ‘ badinage ’ that he used to partake in as a Young Conservative with Brixton locals , but so sensitive is Major about his background , that the public is permitted to hear only the Authorised Version . |
| 10 | AD 10 at this particular place ; it seems to have had a brief existence ; it may have been a Political embarrassment to Cunobelinus at some stage in his early career , or the traders may have just moved elsewhere . |
| 11 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 12 | The result may have been a conflicting programme for pupils . |
| 13 | This may have been a Soviet response to the American nuclear war base facilities under construction at Diego Garcia ( and to a lesser extent to those at the Kagnew Communications Station near Asmara in Ethiopia which had declined in strategic significance and were slowly being wound down ) . |
| 14 | Police believe the weapon may have been a standard cartridge shotgun , specially adapted to fire bullets . |
| 15 | While the United States , by virtue of its major input into Europe after 1941 , may have been a European power , it was not and could not be a European state . |
| 16 | In the first place , although non-convertible bank notes may have been a new element , many — perhaps most — commercial transactions had long depended on paper bills rather than value-for-weight coin . |
| 17 | The Pressurized Water Reactor may have been a new type of reactor to Britain , but it was , and has remained , the brand leader in most other nuclear nations . |
| 18 | On the conscious level , this was almost certainly not so , though deep down there may have been a certain complicity . |
| 19 | It may have been a bogus call … we will just have to wait and see . ’ |
| 20 | Later , in The Sense of Order , my book on decoration , I say somewhere that the shepherd boy who cut a twig from a willow tree and made a little pipe to play a tune on may have been a great genius but we can not tell . |
| 21 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 22 | I shall not mention Lyndon B. Johnson 's maxim about tents — but there may have been a slight hint of that in the right hon. Lady 's strategic thinking . |
| 23 | It may have been a traditional marriage , gift , given to couples to bring them good luck . |
| 24 | Similarly , the plundering of Wales by the Foreigners ( i.e. Scandinavians ) of Dublin and the English , recorded by the Irish Annals of Tigernach under 1030 , may have been a joint expedition , and there is a faint possibility that Dublin 's first bishop was consecrated by Archbishop Æthelnoth of Canterbury in Cnut 's time , with whatever implications that might or might not have . |
| 25 | However , subsequent archaeologists proved him mistaken , seeing in Machu Picchu an important agricultural centre serving Cuzco ; others speculated that it may have been a religious centre , where handmaidens for the sun god lived . |
| 26 | It may have been a controversial church , but its image as a party church dates only from about 1977 when Vanguard disappeared and unionist politics became a straight fight between the Officials and the DUP . |
| 27 | Global warming may have been a contributory factor in the outbreak of a malaria epidemic in the highlands of Madagascar in 1988 which killed 25,000 people . |
| 28 | It may have been a vain hope . |
| 29 | may have been a professional slip of the tongue i in saying that now be up to Labour , it is not up to Labour at all , it is up to all of u , it is up to all of us , it is up to all of us all , and you and you and you , you ca n't dump responsibility , it is up to all of us , all of us |
| 30 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |