Example sentences of "may [adv] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 2 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 3 | I very much doubt whether Wolfgang will find there all those things which he has imagined and the great advantages which several people may perhaps have described to him . |
| 4 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 5 | The English fought on foot at Hastings , and although they certainly used horses for transport , they may normally have fought on foot ; Henry I 's knights at Tinchebrai in 1106 also dismounted , owing to the nature of the battlefield . |
| 6 | Kubrick presumably thinks that scientists , engineers and astronauts are dull dogs , a perception ( or rather , opinion , since it 's often untrue ) that he may not have imparted to Clarke . |
| 7 | While he may not have said in so any words that these encounters with the press had been an " eye-opener , he did remember that he had been sincerely treated by the Journalists courtesy and by the beneficent power of journalism in the modern world . " |
| 8 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 9 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 10 | He may , like his father , have had a wetnurse ( though his father as one of twins was atypical ) , and if so he may not have remained with Judith when , for instance , she travelled to Rouen to meet her husband in November 824 . |
| 11 | You may not have heard of it , but you ought to know about it . |
| 12 | You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will . |
| 13 | YOU MAY not have heard of serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein , but you 've probably seen his movies . |
| 14 | You may not have heard of the journalist or author concerned but that does not mean that they are not engaged on a bona fide testing programme or working on a first-class magazine feature . |
| 15 | There was grumbling that he may not have heard among tribesmen at al Hassaniyeh who are resentful at not being able to voice their grievances freely . |
| 16 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 17 | Recent evidence based on oxygen isotope ratios in the Earth and in lunar samples suggests that the Earth and the Moon may not have formed in widely separated parts of the PFM . |
| 18 | You 've made up your mind in your usual uniquely wilful way , But Miss Jones may not have made up hers . ’ |
| 19 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 20 | This is actually tying this up with an exam question , I was looking through some past papers to try and spot things we may not have covered in detail . |
| 21 | If we have a night sitting service , an elderly person may not have to go in hospital if they are temporarily gone off their legs as sometimes happens . |
| 22 | Even if the unwelcome possibility was beginning to dawn on them , they may not have wanted to be the first to break the consensus . |
| 23 | Even if the unwelcome possibility was beginning to dawn on them , they may not have wanted to be the first to break the consensus . |
| 24 | Indeed , does not Locke himself raise this objection when he asks why ‘ one intellectual substance may not have represented to it , as done by itself , what it never did , and was perhaps done by some other agent ’ ? |
| 25 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 26 | The mothers may not have met in years , if at all , in spite of their knowing each other 's family history . |
| 27 | The close relationship between settlement and cemetery may not have existed throughout the country . |
| 28 | Take a good look at the Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook , which lists the publishers of all the books on the library shelves , plus some you may not have come across yet . |
| 29 | No , you may not have come across it . |
| 30 | Since this practice is not yet by any means universal , and the player may not have come across it before , a note of explanation should be given at the beginning of the part , otherwise the asterisk will cause the player to look for a footnote at the bottom of the page . |