Example sentences of "may [adv] have [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 2 | Advice and support at this time could aim to minimise the chances of a girl returning to an unhappy discordant home and to parents with whom she may largely have lost touch . |
| 3 | If you 're a composer , you may already have composed music for an AV production of some sort . |
| 4 | Some of these compounds may already have had metabolism in the liver or small intestine , or both , before reaching the colon by biliary excretion . |
| 5 | ( He may just have over-estimated demand ; but we think that that is unlikely . |
| 6 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |
| 7 | You may possibly have heard talk to the effect that I was a damned good scrum half . |
| 8 | Usually , these men 's urine flow will be abnormally slow , even in the absence of prostatic enlargement , and they may always have had difficulty urinating in a public place , according to Graham Watson , who runs a prostatitis clinic at the London Institute of Urology . |
| 9 | Rather less simply , some people close to Crédit Lyonnais think it may also have lent money to Florio Fiorini , a Swiss-based Italian associated with Mr Parretti . |
| 10 | If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage . |
| 11 | These expenditures may also have generated inflation and wasted talent which could have been used more effectively in resolving more pressing social and industrial problems . |
| 12 | He believed they may also have exploded blast bombs . |
| 13 | She may also have anticipated trouble with her school managers . |
| 14 | It may also have taken business away from John Smiths , because one enters its sales area straight off the street , whereas Smiths ' comparable sections are well above pavement level . |
| 15 | You may also have paid Class 3 voluntary contributions at some point in your life in order to maintain your contributions record . |
| 16 | The Goldsmiths ' Company may also have paid attention to other claims upon them . |
| 17 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 18 | Some are built with stone , others with turf and peat , and some may originally have had timber fences on the top ( and beneath ) . |
| 19 | Unquestioning acceptance of a functionalist model of social structure may even have hindered progress towards such an understanding ( see further Milroy 1988 ) |
| 20 | In fact , the industry may even have outgrown demand , as hotels do mirror the economy . |
| 21 | He may even have tried blackmail . ’ |
| 22 | From Oxford Eila may well have travelled north through Woodstock , where that weekend there was a Barry Manilow concert , and then on to Charlbury Youth Hostel . |
| 23 | In the households of the small master clothiers of the West Riding woollen manufacture , though not in its differently organised worsted branch , the wives , daughters and female servants may well have spun wool for the household 's own cloth — " Prithie , who mun sit at bobbin weel ? " asks the wife in a poem of 1730 when set another task by her husband — but even so yarn had still to be taken in from other spinners . |
| 24 | But if he started talking Buddhism at them , they may well have taken fright . ’ |
| 25 | This may well have provided relief and reassurance to those many antislavery people who were at the respectable fringes rather than the centre of religious , social and political power as well as for different and obvious reasons those who were closer to the centre . |
| 26 | However , the development of welfare benefits may well have reduced dependence on any particular employer . |
| 27 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 28 | Acute social divisions may indeed have induced violence , a disruption of settled married life and so on , but there is no need to assume that relationships within the working class were intrinsically any more lacking in feeling than relationships amongst other classes , just because they took different forms . |
| 29 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
| 30 | An overseas individual subscriber not registered for VAT , who may previously have incurred VAT through the member state 's post office collection system , will now benefit from a VAT-free magazine , simply because the UK legislation specifically zero-rates those goods — at least for the time being ! |