Example sentences of "may [verb] [been] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steady degradation of the Romanian standard of living to meet the burden of rapid debt repayment in the 1980s and the decision to remodel rural life according to a model abandoned by then even in the Soviet Union and China may have been primarily Nicolae Ceauşescu 's work . |
| 2 | It may have been largely thanks to Lewis that Williams became something of a cult figure , idolized by pious lady dons , aspirant mystics and others . |
| 3 | Of course in the rice solutions used in the published field trials the protein content may have been as hgh as 10% and may therefore have contributed more to secondary salt and water absorption . |
| 4 | Certainly , prices of fuel doubled in the later sixteenth century although this may have been only part of the general inflation . |
| 5 | It may have been only perception — but the customers were put off and that 's what mattered . |