Example sentences of "may have be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Female involvement may have been at the fringes , though what took place in this ‘ marginal , area may turn out to have been more important than long-forgotten events on the field of play . |
| 2 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |
| 5 | However much ignorant opposition there may have been at first to women taking part in public life , there are comparatively few cooperative men or women who would now oppose women being poor law guardians or members of educational communities . |
| 6 | I have forgotten how I picked up my copy , it may have been at a retreat which I was asked to lead at Pleshey . |
| 7 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 8 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 9 | Welsh rulers , with whom Offa may have been at war and who possibly ruled in British territory subject to him , could have been among the kings of the Scots ( Irish ) who recognized the lordship of Charlemagne . |
| 10 | It may have been at the chapel that Father began to court Mother . |
| 11 | Braque may have been at first bewildered by the Demoiselles d'Avignon , but he nevertheless responded to its stimulus , most immediately perhaps in the pen and ink drawing of three nudes published in 1910 as La Femme : the central figure , seated on her haunches , is a clear reference to the squatting Demoiselle , although the composition as a whole curiously anticipates that of Picasso 's Three Women . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |