Example sentences of "may [verb] been [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 2 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 3 | Braque may have been at first bewildered by the Demoiselles d'Avignon , but he nevertheless responded to its stimulus , most immediately perhaps in the pen and ink drawing of three nudes published in 1910 as La Femme : the central figure , seated on her haunches , is a clear reference to the squatting Demoiselle , although the composition as a whole curiously anticipates that of Picasso 's Three Women . |
| 4 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 5 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |