Example sentences of "[conj] it may have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 2 | It may have unlimited funds or it may have very tight ones ; most fall somewhere in between so you have to think creatively about raising the additional finance to do the job properly . |
| 3 | ‘ It may have been the innermost box or it may have overlapped with other sub-boxes , but it was within the compartment , yes . ’ |
| 4 | Under his breath , so that Earl could not hear him , he murmured ‘ Holy cow ! ’ ( ’ or it may have been a little more graphic ’ ) . |
| 5 | For some reason both the adjoining clerical incumbents wished to call his soul their own ; or it may have been his jumble that they wanted . |
| 6 | It may have been jet lag or it may have been the excitement . |
| 7 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 8 | Or it may have based its decision on some matter which , under the provisions setting it up , it had no right to take into account . |
| 9 | But there they were , in their thousands , or it may have been millions , and they were a horrific threat to the survival of humanity on this planet . |
| 10 | The word of the Lord may have to do with faith in God that cuts people free from besetting depression , it may have to do with simple lifestyle or it may have to do with befriending non-Christians . |
| 11 | This assumption was not necessarily justified , for the feud may have been a motive for the theft , or it may have determined whom the complainant decided to accuse in a case of real theft when the thieves were unknown . |
| 12 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 13 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 14 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 15 | First , it may be scattered and diffused among a variety of objects of devotion , as in polytheism ; or it may have a single focus , as in monotheism . |
| 16 | The Agii Theodhori shipyard and port may have served Knossos or Mallia , or it may have had its own hinterland on the boundary of the two major territories . |
| 17 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 18 | Or it may have little or no practical effect . |
| 19 | The monastery may have been sacked by Vikings or it may have fallen down through neglect , but either way it needed reviving . |
| 20 | Or it may have been that the shares were not purchased but were subscribed for and were issued to the investors by Euramco . |
| 21 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 22 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 23 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 24 | 3600 BP and then remained constant , or it may have oscillated to positions above and below present levels ( Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 25 | Fifteen minutes later , or it may have been twenty , I stood staring at a caged lift : the chest-flexing iron lattice , the accordion doors . |
| 26 | The death of Isis may have been an aberration , or it may have had nothing to do with the others . |
| 27 | What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar . |
| 28 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 29 | But then you flew back from Calgary I think or it may have been Vancouver . |
| 30 | Analysis of Brian 's nursing history does not show a structured approach of this nature ; such support was provided as the need for it was noticed by individual staff members , which is theoretically unsatisfying , although it may have worked in practice . |