Example sentences of "may have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains . |
| 2 | Any additional comments you may have are welcome , but please note that this Directive is mandatory within the UK . |
| 3 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |
| 4 | ‘ The father may have been violent , the woman might be involved with someone else who has taken on the role of father . |
| 5 | Especially from the Seven Years War in 1757 , the wars in which Britain was involved may have been European and dynastic in origin , but so far as her struggle with France was concerned , they were global in breadth . |
| 6 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 7 | Bede says that he reduced the southern Saxons to a more grievous servitude on the death of Berhthun ( HE IV , 15 ) , and the situation in Kent may have been similar , the kingdom reduced to economic and political disarray.27 |
| 8 | Equally , while the procedure which produced the Enham texts may have been similar to those responsible for some of Æthelstan 's codes and I Edmund , the promulgation of archiepiscopal admonitions as royal decrees is also reminiscent of those issued by Henry II after the synod of Dortmund in 1005 . |
| 9 | Part of what the Minister said may have been correct . |
| 10 | The few models which have been developed to date may have been correct as far as they go but are clearly incomplete . |
| 11 | This may have been correct , but no alternative was suggested . |
| 12 | There may have been intermittent recoveries , but the bulk of the evidence ( often intractable and indirect ) suggests that until around 1500 they were only temporary . |
| 13 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 14 | Inwardly she may have been nervous , outwardly she appeared calm , relaxed and ready to have fun . |
| 15 | The persuasion to marriage , then , is a criticism of the Friend ( whose reasons for not marrying may have been honourable or dishonourable ) , but it tells us something about the Poet . |
| 16 | When the first-night audience studied their printed librettos , they may have been intrigued by the curious frontispiece . |
| 17 | Grant may have been lame , but … fast or silent ? |
| 18 | That summer of 1920 he had conversations which affected his mind and may have been decisive indirectly for his future choice of career . |
| 19 | ‘ Particulars of Offence : [ The respondent ] on 17 September 1990 dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself or another , or with intent to cause loss to another , falsified a document required for an accounting purpose , namely , a computer generated sales invoice , by making an entry therein which was or may have been misleading , false or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that a discount of 70 per cent . |
| 20 | He may have been right , in his day . |
| 21 | Judge Lifland 's decision may have been right . |
| 22 | In this context the 1912 Minority Report on Divorce may have been right in its opinion that ‘ a blow in one class of life might not be the unforgiveable injury it would be in another ’ . |
| 23 | For Miss Baker after all , may have been right . |
| 24 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 25 | While coercion may have been appropriate enough before 1945 , the plurality of power in a representative system makes it inappropriate thereafter . |
| 26 | His attempts to turn RIC men from soldiers into policemen may have been appropriate in the largely peaceful Ireland of the 1890s , but when the RIC was called upon in 1919 to resume its military character in order to defeat the IRA it was to prove unequal to the task . |
| 27 | We must always be aware of the ability of people to change the environment , either deliberately or by accident , and of the likelihood that the appearance of the landscape today may not be the same as it was half a millennium ago , when different land uses may have been appropriate . |
| 28 | That recipe may have been appropriate in the past when personal consumption was largely met from the output of labour-intensive British industries . |
| 29 | It may have been crucial . |
| 30 | It seems that Rastafari , reggae and toasting may have been crucial in asserting the cultural dominance of the Jamaican element within the Caribbean community in Britain . |