Example sentences of "it may have [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 2 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 3 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 4 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 5 | I mention Husserl because I think that it may have been via Husserl that Wittgenstein acquired his own interest in intentionality . |
| 6 | If external then the situation caused it and it may have been outside the control of the individual . |
| 7 | It may have been during his time at Paris that the young Lothar , perhaps in the company of these two and other students , visited the shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury . |
| 8 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 9 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 10 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 11 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 12 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 13 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 14 | It may have been at the chapel that Father began to court Mother . |
| 15 | In practice it is difficult to locate these points , as the foot of the old cliff ( O on Fig. 9.18 ) may be obscured by talus or , more often , modified by erosion , in which case it may have been at A and the former cliff be represented by AH . |
| 16 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |
| 17 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 18 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 19 | It is not at all unlikely that some pressure was put on women in these two key firms , but it may have been of a persuasive rather than an intimidating kind . |
| 20 | It may have been of more limited scope , for example , ‘ I refuse to have a blood transfusion , so long as there is an effective alternative . ’ |
| 21 | There are other problems , apart from the fact that Harrison 's evidence dates from 1790 and if there was a regular working pattern in Bristol it may have been of more recent origin than he suggests . |
| 22 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 23 | It may have been from a belief that deputies provide a less good service , although published research has shown high patient satisfaction with deputies . |
| 24 | Writing is made to seem a small betrayal , as it may have been in the life of Prentice 's Uncle Rory , who makes a prize-winning living as the author of travel books about ‘ unlikely destinations ’ and who is absent from the grandmother 's funeral where the story begins ( with a predictable bang ) . |
| 25 | It may have been in the early 630s , when Oswiu was in his late teens , that he married Riemmelth , granddaughter of Rhun ( HB ch. 57 ) , for he had a son , Ealhfrith , and a daughter , Ealhflaed , old enough to be married c. 650 ( HE 111 , 21 ) . |
| 26 | In a society so deeply divided by class ( and gender and race ) inequalities , and increasingly dominated by the privatised technological culture of late capitalism , the social purpose orientation alone is now inadequate , however admirable it may have been in the past . |