Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [vb infin] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe you may have been under the influence . ’ |
| 2 | You may have been of course . |
| 3 | You see you may have been in sales but in advertise this is erm |
| 4 | They may have been on the street , or coming out of bed-and-breakfast lodgings . |
| 5 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 6 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 7 | New boys , however grand they may have been before entering the House , go to the back of the queue . |
| 8 | ‘ A work must enact its own meaning ’ and ‘ Never trust the teller , trust the tale ’ — such Lawrentian tags , garbled as they may have been from the writings of the Master , could inspire and cheer the literate young of the 1940s . |
| 9 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 10 | they may they may have been in your list of documents , but copies of them may or may not of been handed over but |
| 11 | But they may have been in , in Changchun and around Changshun . |
| 12 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 13 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 14 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 15 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 16 | I mention Husserl because I think that it may have been via Husserl that Wittgenstein acquired his own interest in intentionality . |
| 17 | If external then the situation caused it and it may have been outside the control of the individual . |
| 18 | It may have been during his time at Paris that the young Lothar , perhaps in the company of these two and other students , visited the shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury . |
| 19 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 20 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 21 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 22 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 23 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 24 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 25 | It may have been at the chapel that Father began to court Mother . |
| 26 | In practice it is difficult to locate these points , as the foot of the old cliff ( O on Fig. 9.18 ) may be obscured by talus or , more often , modified by erosion , in which case it may have been at A and the former cliff be represented by AH . |
| 27 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |
| 28 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 29 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 30 | It is not at all unlikely that some pressure was put on women in these two key firms , but it may have been of a persuasive rather than an intimidating kind . |