Example sentences of "may [adv] have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churches remain at Maddington , Shrewton , and Rollestone , while Elston formerly had a chapel which may once have been a church . |
| 2 | The same passage , despite the narrow constriction of the valley at Djerdap , as the Danube forces its way between the Transylvanian Alps to the north and the Stara Planina to the south , may also have been a route for invaders into the Roman province of Pannonia , although the Iron Gate Pass , some 130 km ( 80 miles ) further north , afforded a better route for the Goths who descended on Pannonia from Transylvania in the middle of the fourth century AD . |
| 3 | There may also have been a second such experience immediately prior to the Battle of Milvian Bridge , at which Constantine defeated his rival for the imperial throne . |
| 4 | Samuel may also have been a Nazirite . |
| 5 | He may also have been a member of the Spectaclemakers ' Company . |
| 6 | It may also have been a contamination . |
| 7 | This appeared to be based on the geographical location of their offices , although the structure of the firm may also have been a factor . |
| 8 | Other tombstones tell us a little about the inhabitants of the town , and include F. Antigonus Papias , a citizen of Greece and possibly a Christian , who may also have been a merchant . |
| 9 | Police fear he may also have been a victim . |
| 10 | When a city and its territory was divided between two kings we should understand that it was their revenues that were at stake , although certain cities also had a strategic importance , which may also have been a matter of concern . |
| 11 | The rear rim of the hole in Triceratops ’ skull grew back into a bony frill on which the membrane was attached ( although this may also have been a display structure ) , so that the muscles could enlarge . |
| 12 | There may also have been a breach of the peace and the prospect of its repetition , so that the common law powers will also continue to apply . |
| 13 | Fragments found in the southern sector and in the north-west corner of the Knossos Labyrinth belonged to pairs of sacral horns that may originally have been a metre or more high . |
| 14 | It may even have been a single . |
| 15 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 16 | He was certainly living on Iona on the eve of Ecgfrith 's final campaign , and there may well have been a delay of a month or so before he became king , but to suppose a delay of seven months or more seems unwarranted . |
| 17 | His family evidently had existing contacts with royal administration , and he may well have been a Chancery clerk as early as June 1379 , enjoying church preferment regularly thereafter , although only on 7 February 1387 was he first called ‘ king 's clerk ’ . |
| 18 | The source of ivory may well have been a factor in reserving it very largely to symbolic rather than practical use . |
| 19 | While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it . |
| 20 | He may well have been a Zealot or a former Zealot — and may , in fact , be identical with Simon Zelotes . |
| 21 | Material now with The Observer — which we are still checking — suggests that there may well have been a group hostile to Sir Harold Wilson ( and hostile to leaders of the Liberal party ) extending far beyond a ‘ faction of MI5' . |
| 22 | Things may well have been a lot worse five years ago . |
| 23 | His parentage and schooling are obscure , though he may well have been a pupil of Stephen Langton , later archbishop of Canterbury [ q.v. ] , himself the native of a village less than ten miles from Stainby . |
| 24 | Because God is sovereign , this other person may well have been a tool in God 's hand to try to get our attention about a particular problem we are having . |
| 25 | We have already seen that this may simply have been a way of saying that Wulfstan had secured an undertaking that they were going to abandon practices which he found displeasing . |
| 26 | Their green eyes fell on the strange eight-legged carving — which may indeed have been a spider , or an octopus , or may yet again have been something altogether more strange and they immediately decided that they were n't so hungry , at that . |