Example sentences of "and may [vb infin] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 2 | There were no horse-drawn wagons , but one of the trailers looked very old-fashioned and may have been home-made . |
| 3 | Thomas Hardy was employed by both architects and may have been involved in the work . |
| 4 | That summer of 1920 he had conversations which affected his mind and may have been decisive indirectly for his future choice of career . |
| 5 | In many cases , ordinary infections could be pinpointed , though some deaths were left unexplained and may have been due to EBHS . |
| 6 | In the entire study population the associations , particularly with periodontal disease , were weak and may have been due to small biases or residual confounding . |
| 7 | These goddesses were very simple , and may have been armless , like the earliest wooden idols on mainland Greece . |
| 8 | These subjects had comparatively low positive titres in 1978 and may have been false positives . |
| 9 | Despite her wish to become accepted within rational circles she insisted on the acceptance of ‘ the affections ’ and may have been instrumental in Godwin 's revisions of his writings . |
| 10 | AD 700 was provided with an incipient keel and may have been able to bear the greater stresses of a sail . |
| 11 | An agreeable contrast is furnished by the light-hearted productions of an exquisite artist who worked with , and may have been identical with , a potter Amasis ( fig. 56 ) . |
| 12 | In Christian belief it was a symbol of the resurrection of the flesh , and may have been significant in Scandinavian paganism too , for the bones of a peacock were found within the ninth-century ship-burial from Gokstad in Norway , whereas all other animal remains lay outside it . |
| 13 | Swan compiled a series of almanacs published in Cambridge from 1657 , and may have been responsible too for other titles such as those ostensibly by ‘ Swallow ’ and ‘ Dove ’ . |
| 14 | As sheriff of Oxford and Buckingham from 1308 to 1310 , forester of Whittlewood Forest in Buckinghamshire from 1308 , constable of Oxford castle from 1311 to 1321 , and steward of the royal household from 1311 to 1325 , Richard moved from local administration to the centre of power and may have been responsible for introducing Roger to royal service . |