Example sentences of "may have [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have lost their feudal rights and their privy purses , but in many of these formerly-gilded princedoms there remains a powerful bond between ex-rulers and ex-ruled . |
| 2 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 3 | The more experienced teachers , on the other hand , are generally more secure both in their competence and their status , but may have lost their fire . |
| 4 | They may have lost their apostles , but they have the Spirit of the Lord himself remaining with them to teach and to inspire . |
| 5 | Opthalmologist Bertil Damato has developed techniques which often enable him to save the eyes of patients who , in the past , may have lost their sight . |
| 6 | Similarly many a bureau may have to close their doors an hour before their official closing time in order to be able to leave the bureau not too many hours after closing time . |
| 7 | In some cases downstream users may have to close their intakes , and anglers may be appalled at the sight of dead fish . |
| 8 | Perhaps by joining in the public disapproval of surrogacy , and seemingly sharing the moral universe of ‘ Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ’ , the Committee may have increased their sphere of influence . |
| 9 | Elected party members may have increased their role in cabinet , but key decisions had to meet with the approval of the Emperor and his personal advisors at Court . |
| 10 | HISTORY suggests that Yorkshire may have increased their chances of regaining the elusive County Championship by signing Sachin Tendulkar instead of Craig McDermott . |
| 11 | They may have achieved their aims and want to change their lives , Dr Rebecca Prenge told She magazine . |
| 12 | ‘ Problems often arise in childhood which may have affected their lives in a way they can not understand . |
| 13 | Individuals may have to defend their decisions in court , and if they can not demonstrate a systematic approach , they are liable to find this difficult to do . |
| 14 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 15 | The experiment thus suggests that while alpha males can trade on their superior competitive ability to obtain mates , subordinates may have to wheedle their way into favour . |
| 16 | The pair , both 25 , have been through two days of hell — and team-mates fear the nightmare may have damaged their medal chances . |
| 17 | The intelligentsia may not have been insincere , they may have believed their own rhetoric . |
| 18 | It is thought that those who occupied the Malvern hill forts may have herded their cattle down the Worcestershire drove-ways to pasture them on Longdon Marsh in the summers before the Roman conquest . |
| 19 | Their legitimate trade may have exceeded their opium trade , but it was their hard-currency resources from opium sales which gave them primacy among the foreign merchants in Canton . |
| 20 | ‘ Nevertheless the fact remains that disciplinary action against officials who may have exceeded their duties or wilfully abused the position of responsibility with which they have been entrusted is a purely internal matter which will be carried out , should the situation warrant it , by the appropriate authorities at the appropriate time . |
| 21 | Rule-following is the typical mode of action by which the structure of the content of the rule is reproduced in the actions of the people , though we may have to explain their aims or the acts they intend , in other ways . |
| 22 | As generations followed the pattern of the maze , the earth energies may have illumined their forms in just the way that they may have done with the cup-and-ring marks and the pilgrims ' tracks . |
| 23 | In the past they have been made implicitly by the providers , although general practitioners may have adjusted their referral patterns based on knowledge about their patients ' preferences and clinical practice in given hospitals . |
| 24 | Perhaps some may have enjoyed their brief flirtation with notoriety , some may even have gained financially , but others may regret the publicity , possibly suffering from poison-pen attacks brought about by the exposure by the press of names and addresses of those who were victims of sexual attacks ( but not raped ) by The Fox or who were unlucky enough to be associated by both , marriage or friendship to this man . |
| 25 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 26 | Our firms which export to the US may have to raise their American prices , which could lead to fewer sales , cuts in production and ultimately job losses . |
| 27 | Some of the wives may have undervalued their contribution and in some cases the husbands questioned their wives ' relatively low rating of themselves . |
| 28 | But this seems a unique case ; and while other towns may have had their equivalents of Ajdabiya 's tinned milk lawsuit , most places seemed to practice autonomy rather than to assert it . |
| 29 | Just as water can be diverted by earthen banks for the purposes of drainage or irrigation , so many earthworks and structures may have had their origins in attempts to channel earth energies . |
| 30 | Some dinosaurs that evolved during the Permian/Triassic reduced their body mass by around 35 per cent or more , and may have had their dimensions reduced by 50 per cent . |