Example sentences of "may [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may have been intermittent recoveries , but the bulk of the evidence ( often intractable and indirect ) suggests that until around 1500 they were only temporary . |
| 2 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 3 | There may have been good reasons of prudence in all this . |
| 4 | There may have been other prisoners . |
| 5 | This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints . |
| 6 | There may have been other churches of lower status on such estates as well . |
| 7 | It could well be that some of the summit surfaces of the Hercynian blocks are Eogene pediplains , while the weathering responsible for the formation of tors may have been tropical weathering of the same date . |
| 8 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 9 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 10 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 11 | That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends . |
| 12 | Two or three out of every ten who came to live in south London were north Londoners who had merely crossed the river , but of course they themselves may have been second generation immigrants to the capital . |
| 13 | Indeed , sometimes it is not very useful , as there may have been long periods without any clear artistic developments , such as the Roman empire of the fourth and fifth centuries or the early medieval period . |
| 14 | During recent times , the main goal of many firms may have been long term survival . |
| 15 | Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . |
| 16 | Another half-exception may have been Bonar Law . |
| 17 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 18 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 19 | It is not clear how far there were similar local grievances to those of the Kentishmen in some of the other shires which were involved in the revolt , notably Sussex and Surrey , although it is probable that the resentment of the citizens of Salisbury at the powers which the bishop exercised there may have been one factor behind the murder of Ayscough ( 7 ; 147 , pp.63 , 66–8 ) . |
| 20 | Hull , too , suffered from the poor relations between England and the Hanse in the second half of the fifteenth century , and this may have been one factor which affected the trade of York , which had used Hull as a centre for exports . |
| 21 | This may have been one reason why the national body was , in the first instance , entitled the Committee for Local Authority Higher education and presumably why its membership includes a representative from the Association of Principals of Colleges , a body broadly representative of those further education establishments other than polytechnics and colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 22 | The presence of Bedu may have been one reason for this — the marvellous rhythmical qualities of her movement and her simple ideas built up with many possibilities ( ! ) ensured some wonderful sessions . |
| 23 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 24 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 25 | These Hittites may have been early migrants from the Hittite Empire in Turkey ( founded about 1800 BC ) . |
| 26 | Patients in their study initially had no clinical or echocardiographic evidence of heart disease and they suggest that the QT interval abnormalities may have been early indicators of alcohol-induced myocardial toxicity . |
| 27 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 28 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 29 | There are several references to what may have been congenital syphilis . |
| 30 | The vendor may have been Pantell S.A. The vendor may have been Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a U.K. company , on whose behalf Pantell S.A. was , under an agreement dated 1 March 1988 , authorised to sell Euramco shares to the investing public on a commission basis . |