Example sentences of "may have been an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offa 's victory over Cynewulf in 779 , therefore , would seem to have been a signal for intensified Mercian activity on Offa 's southern border which may have been an essential prerequisite to any sustained involvement in the south-east . |
| 2 | There a new opera commission was discussed with Domenico Guardasoni , manager of the National Theatre ; this may have been an embryonic version of La clemenza di Tito , Mozart 's last opera , which he was to write for Prague two years later . |
| 3 | However , the runner-up may have been an unlucky loser as it was later discovered that he had raced with a injured heel . |
| 4 | He may have been an outstanding goalkeeper but he was hardly a product of the Harvard Business School . |
| 5 | There may have been an additional dimension to all this . |
| 6 | Depending upon when Edmund 's Welsh alliance was made , it may have been an additional factor in persuading Eadric to change his allegiance , or a move to put pressure on him once he had deserted . |
| 7 | It is worth pointing out — as did Dr Akena Adoko in his book on the Jeffrey Archer trial — that there may have been an additional development in the folkways of the juryroom : the frequent practice of the rich ( the typical plaintiffs ) to pass on their damages to charity , as did Mr Archer , might act as an additional , and self-legitimating , incentive to take awards through the ceiling . |
| 8 | The slaying of Eanfrith , which followed soon after , may have been an important turning-point . |
| 9 | A well-worn path not marked on the map that may have been an old link between Gawthrop and the track called Long Bank that crosses Middleton Fell , leads to the right of the crags into a slight outcrop of rock marked by a lone hawthorn . |
| 10 | Antislavery ideology in its economic features may have been an attractive persuasion for paradoxical reasons . |
| 11 | This may have been an open-ended shop with timber uprights based on the blocks , so providing both support for the gable end and a frame into which wooden shutters could be fitted when the shop was closed ( see Catterick , p. 114 ) . |
| 12 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 13 | And even where there was no direct benefit from the acquisition of the wrappers there may have been an indirect benefit by way of advertisement . |
| 14 | It is understood police believe it may have been an isolated incident . |
| 15 | It is understood police believe it may have been an isolated incident . |
| 16 | By contrasting the doctor 's concentration on physical ailments with the CAB worker 's lengthy advice session , there may have been an unintentional implication that CAB workers see their major role as counsellor and that it is the counselling role that is time consuming . |
| 17 | The American tradition of the fine photographic print may have been an irresistible provocation — but there were plenty of precedents available for the kind of work the Starn Twins wanted to do ( notably the expansively scored and painted photographic base used by Anselm Kiefer ; Julian Schnabel 's broken plates ) . |
| 18 | The patients ' symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction may well have been due to benign prostatic hypertrophy and the coexistent prostatic cancer may have been an incidental finding . |
| 19 | However , they went on to comment that the assumed riskless rate of 6 per cent in Part 1 of the results may have been an over estimate , as Part II shows only the first 2 factors to be significant while the fifth factor lost all explanatory power . |
| 20 | It may have been an aristocratic èlite , but it was also unruly , unpredictable , and extremely difficult to manage . |
| 21 | The Black Prince may have been an unforeseen bonus . |