Example sentences of "may have [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless business picks up soon , some of the 245 foreign-owned banks in Switzerland may have to shut up shop . |
| 2 | They add that the impact of the mother 's presence on the marriage may have caused further resentment . |
| 3 | Many will have committed sexual offences that other prisoners find abhorrent ; some will have been informers who helped the police in the hope of obtaining a shorter sentence and still others may have built up debts inside prison that they can not repay . |
| 4 | There were two objections to this : firstly it was a British tune and secondly ( though less important ) it was well known that its full version included a line about crushing rebellious Scots ; and while the English national anthem may have pleased aggressively Anglophile spectators , it gave immense offence to thousands of ordinary Scots who quite understandably punctuated it with boos and whistles . |
| 5 | The newspaper said Reagan officials , and to a lesser extent officials from the administrations of Jimmy Carter and George Bush , may have covered up evidence of abuses to win approval from Congress of $6 billion ( £4 billion ) in aid . |
| 6 | You may have to talk out functions of the job . |
| 7 | It may have inundated lower Egypt , flooded the Nile and swept back the Red Sea waters to permit the escape of the Israelites fleeing from the Pharaoh . |
| 8 | They may have turned down job promotions to allow more time to be with their parents , or to avoid moving abroad or further from home . |
| 9 | Such organic-rich shales are likely to constitute a much more widespread potential source for hydrocarbons — probably mainly for gas and condensate — than the coals of the deltas which are restricted to the northern part of the region , although the possibility that isolated intermontane coal basins may have developed further south in the later Carboniferous can not be excluded . |
| 10 | ‘ Equally we want to speak to anyone who may have rented out property recently in what they consider to be suspicious or somewhat unusual circumstances , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 11 | Recession may have arrived late north of the border but economic slowdown and the election has pushed devolution or independence to the top of the business agenda and produced an anguished reaction . |
| 12 | They may have to leap up waterfalls . |
| 13 | We may have to bring in assistance from outside to deal with specific problems , and Mr Whittaker 's network of contacts could be used for this purpose . |
| 14 | Or you may have worked out area problems in maths lessons at school . |
| 15 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 16 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 17 | If you have already extended your house in the past , you may have used up part or all of the allowance , and you will have to apply for planning permission for the garage . |
| 18 | ( Charles may have picked up malaria in Italy in 875 : he was seriously ill from late July to mid-August 876 , and from December 876 to January 877 . |
| 19 | If you have a somewhat limited understanding of sex you may have wondered why people contrive to incorporate such things as whips , chains , handcuffs and strange costumes into their sexual relations . |
| 20 | he may have taken up ideas for operas put to him by collaborators — Myfanwy Piper remembers that she first suggested the Henry James story . |