Example sentences of "[pers pn] may have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may have been the fathers of the running children . |
| 2 | If the floor plates have ever been removed then the sealer around them may have been damaged and need replacing . |
| 3 | The windows are interesting , with their association with the wool trade , though there is some speculation that some of them may have been brought from another house . |
| 4 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 5 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 6 | We are , though , left with the question of exactly which orchestra we have had the pleasure of listening to : while the back cover of the jewel case states that both works have been played by the Canadians under Barshai , the inner notes suggest ( unbelievably ) that one of them may have been performed by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Norman Del Mar ! |
| 7 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 8 | This does n't necessarily mean they were practising infanticide , although some of them may have been . |
| 9 | Their treatment of those who held land from them may have been prompted as much by economic motives as by political or psychological ones . |
| 10 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 11 | Then again , he talked with her because he longed to satisfy to meet her needs , as a human being she 'd aspiration , she 'd hope , she 'd desires and as she looked back on her life , some of them may have been fulfilled , some of her plans may have been realized , but there must have been an awful emptiness , and awful hollowness about so much . |
| 12 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 13 | My main concern , however , on this throbbing morn , is to reassure any of my admirers whose opinion of me may have been diminished by David and Ted 's startling revelations concerning the use to which I have been known to put my sinuses . |
| 14 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 15 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 16 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
| 17 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 18 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 19 | I may have been out of the arena for a while , but I daresay there are still some who remember the old gladiator . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I may have been thinking of using the money saved from the mortgage payments on a new telly or something , but not now . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I may have been over-enthusiastic . |
| 22 | I may have been wrong proportionately as many times as the result of an amniocentesis turns out to have been wrong : that is , being wrong in both cases amounts to a hypothetical possibility , but is not normal . |
| 23 | I mean I may have been being a bit naive as a general sort of , just a rep within NALGO , I 'm not I 'm not , although I 've had all the publicity , and yes I 'm , sometimes you do not the course . |
| 24 | I may have been absent or something . |
| 25 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 26 | ‘ I may have been a more enthusiastic scholar if they had been ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Look , I may have been angry when I found out but … ’ |
| 28 | In fact , I may have been lulled by that into an unwise bravado . |
| 29 | I may have been too authoritarian … |
| 30 | I 'll admit I may have been naïve … ’ |