Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly their views may have been different from those of the people who died , but respondents are likely to have taken into account the reactions of their relatives and friends , and how these respondents felt about the care in the homes is also of interest and concern . |
| 2 | A spokesman admitted some personnel may have been unhappy with a process of ‘ radical ’ change , but insisted : ‘ The vast majority of people would not have recognised the description in that article . ’ |
| 3 | The initiating event in these three cases may have been technical , but the persistent fistulas are probably related to underlying Crohn 's disease . |
| 4 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 5 | In January 1644 , assessed at £1,000 , he pleaded for a mitigation ; his lack of money may have been due to personal extravagance at court as much as political troubles . |
| 6 | In three men gastrectomy may have been the cause and in two poor nutrition may have been responsible . |
| 7 | Hence , even if the correct word was not in the lattice , it is very possible that an incorrect word belonging to the same syntactic category may have been present instead . |
| 8 | The greatest rock'n'roll band tag may have been uncomfortable to live with in the past , but this album will not make the title any easier to shift . |
| 9 | Serafin may have been Russian , may have disappeared back to Russia . |
| 10 | The government 's motive in attacking enclosures was not simply disinterested concern for justice for the poor , although Wolsey may have been anxious about their welfare . |
| 11 | The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life . |
| 12 | Before the amendments made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 , there was no such provision although the courts may have been prepared to imply an appropriate term into a software licence where the making of a back-up copy was reasonably necessary to the use of the program in question . |
| 13 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 14 | Some faint impressions on the inside of the dermal skeleton suggest that at least paired nasal sacs may have been present ( unlike in modern hagfishes ) . |
| 15 | The regulations which a licensing board may make are concerned with procedure only . |
| 16 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 17 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton may have been relieved , after the turmoil of Bedford Gardens , to find himself sharing with someone who came from a similar background . |
| 18 | They believe Mr MacDonald may have been involved in some kind of argument shortly before his death . |
| 19 | Moscow may have been concerned in particular about the global and regional repercussions of a prolonged Iran-Iraq war and the opportunities this provided the West . |
| 20 | Protagonists of unity may have been despondent about the loss of the EDC and the European Political Community , but were not routed . |
| 21 | Although family health services authorities may have been oblivious to these activities , this does not indicate their absence . |
| 22 | Burgundians may have been involved in the crossing of the Rhine in 406 . |
| 23 | Such phenomena may have been present in three of our patints , in whom a slight bile acid malabsorption was found with the SeHCAT test , but in whom there was no increase in bile acid synthesis by the liver . |
| 24 | ON the day Forest not only climbed from their sick bed but announced their imminent discharge from the ward , Brian Clough may have been amused to note Arsenal 's third successive defeat . |
| 25 | What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains . |
| 26 | Judge Lifland 's decision may have been right . |
| 27 | The decision may have been harsh , however , because it appeared he had not heard the whistle . |
| 28 | The continuance of large-scale English resistance may have been unlikely , but there were sources of danger to be neutralised . |
| 29 | That Atlantis was discussed in the Timaeus may have been significant , but it was not crucial . |
| 30 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |