Example sentences of "may have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , the power of religious belief may have been such that each community gave as much as it could afford . |
| 2 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 3 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 4 | In this it may have been little more than a mouthpiece for a Russian directorate but in an article , which , says Sacks , amounted to a reading of the riot act to the ICP , one finds this clear and unmistakable instruction in the French journal Cahiers du Boishévisme : |
| 5 | It must be confessed that it is really difficult to pinpoint the precise locations of these ancient workings , which , at that time may have been little else than shallow holes on the outcrops . |
| 6 | There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council . |
| 7 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 8 | It is tempting to think that one of these robbed tombs may have been that of Imhotep , buried near to the king he had served . |
| 9 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 10 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 11 | His principles may have been those of the past , but his virtues were those of the new governments of Europe : common sense , ability , efficiency . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the pressing need for a dynamic pope to exploit the political vacuum left by the unexpected death of the Emperor Henry VI and the advantages of a third Roman pope in a row may have won over the opposition — and there may have been those impressed by his vigorous views on the papacy 's role . |
| 13 | The forces of Theuderic which Gregory thought were present at Vézeronce may have been those of Theodoric , angered by the murder of his grandson . |
| 14 | It may have been these factors that encouraged the Court to give a restrictive opinion on the powers of the member States . |
| 15 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 16 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 17 | There may have been another factor that induced these creatures to leave the ground . |
| 18 | Then , wryly : ‘ There may have been another reason ; even as a young man I was a staid sort of chap and they were a bit wild at times . |
| 19 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 20 | Although most of the ‘ Lees ’ were probably Flanellys or Murphies , there may have been some Romanies present . |
| 21 | There may have been some species which were attached to floating seaweed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ There may have been some leak , causing hallucinations , wholesale insanity . ’ |
| 25 | There may have been some generic connection between the Anatolian deity and the Minoan deity whose symbol was also the double-axe . |
| 26 | There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part . |
| 29 | There may be a s there may have been some guests turn up |
| 30 | 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 . |