Example sentences of "may have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belief in the cyclical nature of the universe found its apotheosis in the concept of the Great Year , which the Greeks may have inherited from the Babylonians . |
| 2 | First , because there are still far more betrayed women than men around : the percentage of wives playing away may have risen from 26% in the 50s to around 40% now , but a conservative estimate suggests that 60% of husbands have cheated at least once — and one US survey puts the figure as high as 82% . |
| 3 | It is possible to speculate that John 's anger may have stemmed from the student turning his attention to the mother ; but whatever the explanation , John responded and reacted to the student . |
| 4 | This was achieved by a religious ritual which may have stemmed from one in which the original parricides mutilated themselves ( and especially the organ which was responsible for their incestuous desires ) out of remorse and guilt at what they had done and in mourning for the primal father . |
| 5 | Yet if they , or the possible abbatial vacancy , had any connection with the king , both may have stemmed from the unsuccessful attack which the Liber Eliensis records him as once having made on the monastery . |
| 6 | The Carpets may have tumbled from grace with those anxious to keep pace with fashion , fallen victim to a mid-career plunge into the realms of prog rock and put out the odd dodgy single , but they 're currently looking like people whose revived self-belief is entirely justified . |
| 7 | The evidence actually tends to be ambiguous ( West 1969 ; Jones 1979b ) as indications of timberwork at the lip of the pit may be connected with the superstructure and planking in the base may have fallen from the walls or roof lining . |
| 8 | The coins were found in a fairly straight line , indicating that they may have fallen from a torn purse . |
| 9 | Both these birds may have escaped from captivity . |
| 10 | Do not count any earnings your employee may have received from other employment . |
| 11 | By the late 1930s any money he may have received from his father had come to an end . |
| 12 | Sometimes decline can be explained as an inevitable concomitant of development ; thus the heyday of Valencian prosperity was matched by a dramatic decline in the silk industry of Granada and the smaller industry of the Aragonese valleys may have suffered from Catalan competition . |
| 13 | It is thought he may have suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a faulty exhaust system . |
| 14 | It is worth remembering that one of Ælfric 's patrons , and the founder of his abbeys of Cerne and Eynsham , was the nobleman Ætheær who may have retired from court rather than face the growing influence of Eadric Streona . |
| 15 | According to Gregory , Chlodomer 's kingdom was divided equally between Childebert and Chlothar , but in so far as this division can be reconstructed it appears not to have been confined to the two brothers ; there are grounds for thinking that Theuderic also may have profited from the murders . |
| 16 | Another care perhaps may have diverted from continual watch our great forbidder safe with all his spies about him . |
| 17 | What Leapor may have gained from Richard Cooper is discussed in chapter four below . |
| 18 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 19 | Not only may viruses incorporate themselves into our DNA , but there is now a suggestion that some viruses at least may have arisen from bits of our own DNA which have escaped from our cells and become so modified as to be capable of independent existence . |
| 20 | Prohibitions may have arisen from the social pressure directed against unorthodox behaviour . |
| 21 | Previous success with the original Minnesota smoking prevention programme may have arisen from the experimental classroom conditions under which it was taught . |
| 22 | The Institution regrets any misunderstanding which may have arisen from the article and apologises for any offence or inconvenience caused to G.L. Watson and Company and Mr J Allen McLachlan . |
| 23 | We apologise for any misunderstanding which may have arisen from this error . |
| 24 | That much the reader may have gathered from the argument so far . |
| 25 | The early evolutionary stages of development of wings are still in question they may have developed from outgrowths of exoskeleton from the body that assisted gliding initially , and then acquired a propulsive function . |
| 26 | Reputedly the smallest of England 's parish churches , it may have developed from an anchorite 's cell in the eleventh or twelfth century , and since that time had drawn many pilgrims to its almost inaccessible woodland site . |
| 27 | The system may have developed from seed parasitism , but it itself is now parasitized by other wasps ovipositing through the syconium wall . |
| 28 | She may have emerged from the burrow system unnoticed and either slipped away under cover or escaped into an adjoining burrow system . |
| 29 | At a guess , he may have heard from his colleague who came here to lunch that I feel rather isolated professionally at the moment . |
| 30 | We may have heard from you , but erm please do tell us something about the Oxford Rainforest festival . |