Example sentences of "may have be in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been most concerned by reports that some students may have been in temporary difficulty at the start of the current term because their grant cheques have not arrived from certain authorities . |
| 2 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 3 | Their interest may have been in Sardinian copper or Etruscan tin ; the Minoans needed tin to make bronze , and the sources of their raw materials are unknown . |
| 4 | But press officer for Jet , John Maple , who belongs to the same union as Mr Keeping , says that there are statutory reasons why this morning 's protest may have been in vain . |
| 5 | The third wing , which united the other two , possessed heated rooms which may have been in common use . |
| 6 | But Presley points out : ‘ With the discovery that a membrane bone can totally mimic a basic cartilaginous constituent of the developing skull , we have to ask ourselves how widespread such a phenomenon may have been in vertebrate evolution . ’ |
| 7 | However widespread such an attitude may have been in popular piety ( and perhaps it has been widespread ) , and though it may be thinkable to a Latin American theologian today , it is hardly orthodox . |