Example sentences of "may have [been] some " in BNC.

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1 Although most of the ‘ Lees ’ were probably Flanellys or Murphies , there may have been some Romanies present .
2 There may have been some species which were attached to floating seaweed .
3 The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 .
4 This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible .
5 ‘ There may have been some leak , causing hallucinations , wholesale insanity . ’
6 There may have been some generic connection between the Anatolian deity and the Minoan deity whose symbol was also the double-axe .
7 There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested .
8 While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems .
9 I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part .
10 There may be a s there may have been some guests turn up
11 For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold .
12 Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses .
13 He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did .
14 There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward .
15 Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension .
16 There may have been some weather impact in the last two months , but basically , it looks like the major U S oil companies that were going overseas are still spending money on buying leases and building up infrastructure .
17 Though there may have been some hostility between the victuallers and the non-victuallers , this can hardly have been the only factor involved .
18 Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into .
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