Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard seems to have played an important part in the peace and truce talks , and as he went to and fro between the armies his father may have begun to wonder just what these exchanges meant . |
| 2 | Women with bulimia may have begun to develop the condition as a method of coping with earlier traumatic events . |
| 3 | At least this was so until very recently , though the effects of the 1988 Education Reform Act ( ERA ) may have begun to change things . |
| 4 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 5 | Or she may have asked to go . ’ |
| 6 | This is the conclusion of an in-depth Wall Street Journal investigation which suggests that its moves may have served to bolster its results on a short-term basis and push problems into the future . |
| 7 | The Franks Report suggested that : ‘ British Government policies which may have served to cast doubts on British commitment to the Islands and their defence [ include ] the Government 's preparedness , subject to certain restrictions , to continue arms sales to Argentina ( and to provide training facilities in the United Kingdom for Argentine military personnel ) . ’ |
| 8 | Here Stokowski , incidentally , resorts to tubular bells , which may have served to prompt the enquiries made by Leslie Heward and Sir Thomas Beecham during the mid-1930s . |
| 9 | In that case the contemporary seal may have served to validate the emissary . |
| 10 | The fall in population did not , however , mean a general decline in economic activity ; rising wages may have served to increase consumption and give some stimulus to production , and it is worth noting that even the magnate class , which was more likely to suffer from the changed balance of power between land and labour through declining rent rolls and higher payments of wages was still able to invest considerable sums in new building during Richard II 's reign . |
| 11 | His passion and concern for minutiae may have served to diminish the impact that this work had on his contemporaries and successors . |
| 12 | It was made clear , furthermore , that the Society did not regard the houses of businessmen or the ‘ newly rich ’ as ‘ distinguished ’ , and in my opinion this piece of out-dated thinking crucially undermined any serious authority the Society may have achieved to arbitrate on standards in our profession . |
| 13 | However much , privately , she may have hated seeing her husband drink , or hearing him swear , she would never rebuke him in front of others . |
| 14 | These can be fairly reliable , but what your friend may have neglected to tell you is to what wind direction the water is best suited . |
| 15 | When the original pasture is grazed again , prophylactic measures should be undertaken , as enough larvae may have survived to institute a fresh cycle of infection . |
| 16 | The approach may have risked inhibiting the searcher 's behaviour but it offered continuity and some close-ups of individual steps of the search . |
| 17 | That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible . |
| 18 | However , the tally of six underestimates the total effect because some MPs unsympathetic to Left-wing ideas may have decided to retire a little early rather than face a battle for re-adoption . |
| 19 | ‘ While I respectfully agree that recommendations of a committee may not help much when there is a possibility that Parliament may have decided to do something different , where there is no such possibility , as where the draft Bill has been enacted without alteration , in my opinion it can safely be assumed that it was Parliament 's intention to do what the committee recommended and to achieve the object the committee had in mind . |
| 20 | Wetherby may have decided to feather his nest by blackmail . |
| 21 | In a statement they say the LEA may have decided to use the allocation for other priorities . |
| 22 | Another big reshuffle could come in 18 months to two years , by which time Mr Patten could be back in Parliament and Mr Douglas Hurd , having helped lead Britain 's presidency of the EC in the second half of this year , may have decided to step down as Foreign Secretary to pursue another career . |
| 23 | Of course some are useful in identifying spies who would have otherwise gone on undetected but often this is not all it seems , as the Russians may have decided to expose one or two spies who have served their purpose in order to protect a more important one still at work . |
| 24 | Peyton may have decided to have Godfrey killed both because of his ‘ betrayal ’ and to stir up hatred against the Catholics , on whom suspicion would inevitably fall . |
| 25 | The hyperpluralist perspective may have sought to distance itself from the pluralist perspective on British politics , but there is much in common between the two orientations . |
| 26 | I hope that my hon. Friend will dispel any notion that the Secretary of State may have sought to introduce to the effect that the passage of the Bill would be seriously delayed if we examined the important question of victimisation . |
| 27 | This is not trifling with semantics ; many people were indeed displeased with the Government , and may have sought to frighten their rulers by telling opinion pollsters that they would vote against the Conservatives . |
| 28 | These omissions and transpositions indicate that Levi could well have kept to himself any plan he may have formed to end his life . |
| 29 | After fifteen years some may have emigrated died … would all of them spring to the colours when called ? ’ |
| 30 | He may have gone swimming . |