Example sentences of "they may [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have been on the street , or coming out of bed-and-breakfast lodgings . |
| 2 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 3 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 4 | New boys , however grand they may have been before entering the House , go to the back of the queue . |
| 5 | ‘ A work must enact its own meaning ’ and ‘ Never trust the teller , trust the tale ’ — such Lawrentian tags , garbled as they may have been from the writings of the Master , could inspire and cheer the literate young of the 1940s . |
| 6 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 7 | they may they may have been in your list of documents , but copies of them may or may not of been handed over but |
| 8 | But they may have been in , in Changchun and around Changshun . |