Example sentences of "may have been part [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate 's scare tactics . |
| 2 | Evans suggested that if the complete picture showed an attack on a city the houses depicted may have been part of an outer defence wall in which no ground-floor doors or windows would have been possible . |
| 3 | Excavations carried out recently on behalf of the Cheltenham Museum have revealed structures from the first to the fourth centuries , an irregular street pattern and a ditch with fourth-century coins in the lower filling which may have been part of a defence system . |
| 4 | Among the objects in Devizes Museum is an un-inscribed stone altar , a full-size silver eye from a bronze head of a cult statue and a length of iron rod sheathed in bronze , which may have been part of a sceptre . |
| 5 | The gift of a slave-girl to his daughter ( verse 24 ) may have been part of the dowry . |
| 6 | Thus , the phenomenon may have been part of variability in English for many centuries — more common perhaps in some dialects than in others , receding at some periods and progressing at others . |
| 7 | Not ideal , Ah 'm told , but that may have been part of the test . ’ |
| 8 | This requirement may have been part of our own history too . |
| 9 | But the move may have been part of the general trend by oil companies to reduce drilling commitments as cash flow was squeezed by sluggish oil prices and huge spending programmes in the North Sea . |