Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | If our policies had achieved wider media coverage , we may have achieved greater support , but there is a foundation there on which we intend to build . |
2 | Readings were taken only at one minute intervals , and therefore saturation values may have fallen lower inbetween , although the automatic alarm set at 85% was never activated . |
3 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
4 | Contingents organised and supplied by churches formed a significant part of Carolingian armies ( a proportion that may have grown larger during the ninth century ) , complementing the king 's own military household and the troops led by lay nobles . |
5 | The locomotive fleet may have become slimmer and generally older , but it still ended the decade in better overall shape thanks to this revised policy ; new maintenance procedures , and heavy expenditure on refurbishment of key types , also helped . |
6 | Other musicians may have enjoyed greater financial reward playing this music , but nobody has done it better or with greater flexibility . |
7 | One or more of these stages may have had greater impact in some countries than others , creating separate democratic inheritances onto which the extension of the franchise was superimposed . |
8 | Townsend noted a preconceived association between retirement , ill health and death within the wider community which may have had older cultural roots . |
9 | It is open to debate whether or not all the designs traditionally ascribed to Persia are in fact Persian in origin , and there is some evidence to suggest that a number may have had earlier links with Anatolia , India or Central Asia . |
10 | Although these patients may have had smaller surgical procedures performed , they will require as much , or more , care at home because they are discharged earlier . |
11 | This may have masked further treatment benefits of NIPPV . |
12 | It may have started earlier but I ca n't recall anyone doing it . |