Example sentences of "may have [be] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of character the bridge may have been but woefully inadequate for the increasing traffic of the busy port and in 1856 the new bridge was opened . |
| 2 | Er it may have been but you ca n't we have n't got much evidence for that . |
| 3 | Limited , until recently , to an A4 sheet and with some initial problems in terms of RIP reliability it may have been but the output quality is more than adequate for a wide range of documents . |
| 4 | Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships . |
| 5 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 6 | The greater the Mercian involvement in south-eastern England , particularly Kent , however attractive control of Kentish resources may have been or however militarily desirable the containment of a possibly unstable local hegemony , the more vulnerable was Offa 's position in the face of hostile anti-Mercian sentiment south as well as north of the Thames . |
| 7 | Mr Smith said : ‘ However well intentioned the reform may have been and however well it may work in schools sufficiently funded for it to work , the fact is too many of its side-effects are visible , malign and damaging and John Patten must have at the very top of his agenda an urgent review . ’ |
| 8 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 9 | However heartfelt this gesture may have been and even though all the lodges did not display the sign , do the people of Ulster not realize that the Dublin government is interfering in the affairs of our beloved Nation . |
| 10 | Absolutely perfect adherence to the 12 Steps is unobtainable but each and every sufferer has the capacity to make progress from whatever his or her starting position may have been and this is all that is required . |
| 11 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |