Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our culture may have rendered natural selection relatively irrelevant . |
| 2 | Franco himself may have realized this , for his erstwhile enthusiasm for Arrese and his project began to wane in the second half of 1956 , as opposition to it became more widespread and vocal among the non-Falangist sectors of the regime . |
| 3 | The hostility of his reception may have daunted other administrators from recruiting black players , but there was a gradual incursion of blacks into baseball in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 4 | It may have sounded odd to only have an 18in tube for a four foot tank , but this is another attempt to try to establish a more natural environment . |
| 5 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , a National Audit Office report is thought to have concluded . |
| 6 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , according to a National Audit Office report . |
| 7 | If this was a late addition , one that went into the quarto at the last minute , the printer may have lost four lines of type in the process — or even cut them in order to be able to finish Act 3 tidily on the last page of a quarto sheet : the very next page , as it happens , which left scarcely any room for manoeuvre . |
| 8 | Timbuctu may have lost some of its mystique but still attracts more legionnaires than lager-louts and was always going to appeal to the adventure-seekers who answered the call of the organising triumvirate of Jerome Viellard , Oliver du Plessis and Ann-Pascale Suppot-Reveilhac . |
| 9 | ARCO may have lost some of its glamour , but with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia performing an important task in educating a local market in international art , it is difficult to believe that the leading galleries will not return in a future year . |
| 10 | Some of Britain 's most prolific bidders may have lost some of their confidence after recent setbacks . |
| 11 | Taking into account Syria 's losses in military service and imprisonment under ill-treatment , the country may have lost half a million of its people during the First World War out of a population of well under four million . |
| 12 | New land-working agreements frequently had to be negotiated , and enclosure into small fields for peasant cultivation may have replaced open land and the strip system of some villages on the coastal plain . |
| 13 | In London and Birmingham particularly , regional policy since 1945 may have hastened this decentralization of industry as industrial-development certificates were required from central government before larger manufacturing developments could be implemented . |
| 14 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
| 15 | All sorts of latent talents which the daily demands of home , work and family may have kept dormant can be rediscovered or developed . |
| 16 | None of the four can be definitely linked with Gloucester in the 1470s , although the Calthorpes may have kept some connections with him . |
| 17 | None of the four can be definitely linked with Gloucester in the 1470s , although the Calthorpes may have kept some connections with him . |
| 18 | The high rate of diagnostic revision ( 25% ) based on this independent , blind histopathological review may have overdiagnosed definite Crohn 's disease but in many the final diagnosis was uncertain and labelled as indeterminate colitis . |
| 19 | I think the steep angle may have saved many lives . |
| 20 | The long , rough guard hairs may have saved many a mountain goat from the consequences of an accidental slip . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to their son is that he gave his life to a mission which may have saved many more . |
| 22 | He may have inherited some of his eccentricity from his father , Bernard , who built up a vast multi-national engineering company from scratch and then acquired a circus as a sideline , training his own Lippizaner stallions . |
| 23 | I laughed at this , but it made me think of where Charlie may have inherited some of his cruelty . |
| 24 | She may have written some very promising poetry , but she had little personal support for her writing while she was at Edgcote . |
| 25 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 26 | Its author , who may have written most of every entry between 991 and 1016 , has a distinctive and somewhat dramatic style , and knew a great deal . |
| 27 | As you may have noticed other debates have attracted rather more publicity this week , but the theme of our congress is jobs and recovery because jobs and recovery is the most important issue for our members and for Britain . |
| 28 | She has told that tale all round Glasgow ; you may have noticed that no company calls . |
| 29 | You may have noticed that age differences between pupils in the first class at school can be as great as one year , sometimes more . |
| 30 | And this year there 's been very little change altogether , you may have noticed that or very little change at all . |